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Riddles for kids, with answers

Short, easy riddles in English for young learners: listen to the clues, pick one of three pictures, check the answer. Eight topics, a new riddle every day and cards to print.

Riddle of the day

I am white. I come from a cow. You drink me. What am I?

More like this: Food riddles →

A new riddle every day at midnight.

A riddle is a tiny reading lesson with a prize at the end. Every clue is a sentence a beginner can already say, and the class has to keep all of them in mind to win — listening, vocabulary and thinking in English, in under a minute.

Every answer is a picture word from the site's flashcards and games, with its own page in the picture dictionary, so a riddle can open or close a topic lesson. On the Russian and Spanish pages each riddle has a support line in the class's own language.

Clues like these:I am yellow.I have a long neck.I live in the sea.

🗂️ Riddles by topic

🧑‍🏫 How to play riddles in class

  1. Read one clue at a time. Stop after each clue and let the class guess — the first clue should be the hard one.
  2. Show the three pictures only when the class is stuck. Choosing is easier than remembering, so the pictures are the help, not the game.
  3. Swap roles: a child reads a printed card aloud and the class guesses. The answer is printed upside down at the bottom, so the reader can check it.
  4. Finish by writing a riddle together with the frame below.

✏️ Make your own riddle

Children fill in the lines about an animal or a thing in the classroom, then read them aloud for the class to guess. Most first riddles are about pets, and that is fine.

I am ________.

I have ________.

I can ________.

I live ________.

What am I?

More word play

📖 Picture dictionary →📅 Word of the day →🥁 Chants for every topic →