100 Trick Questions For Kids With Answers

Few things light up a family game night or a long car ride like a good brain teaser. If you are searching for trick questions for kids that spark giggles and get little minds working, this list has something for every age, from silly wordplay to sneaky logic puzzles.

What Makes a Question “Trick”?

A trick question plays with wording or logic so the obvious answer turns out wrong. Kids love the “aha” moment, and it builds listening skills and flexible thinking without feeling like a lesson.

Below are trick questions for kids sorted into five categories: funny, logic, wordplay, math, and silly brain teasers, each with its answer right underneath.

Funny Trick Questions

1. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
   Answer: A clock.
2. What gets wetter the more it dries?
   Answer: A towel.
3. What has many keys but no locks?
   Answer: A piano.
4. What coat is always wet when put on?
   Answer: A coat of paint.
5. What runs but never walks?
   Answer: Water.
6. What has a neck but no head?
   Answer: A bottle.
7. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
   Answer: A table.
8. What room has no doors or windows?
   Answer: A mushroom.
9. What goes up but never comes down?
   Answer: Your age.
10. What has an eye but cannot see?
    Answer: A needle.
11. What has teeth but cannot bite?
    Answer: A comb.
12. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
    Answer: A glove.
13. What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
    Answer: A bed.
14. What can you catch but not throw?
    Answer: A cold.
15. What has a ring but no finger?
    Answer: A telephone.
16. What tree can you carry in your hand?
    Answer: A palm.
17. What is full of holes but still holds water?
    Answer: A sponge.
18. What has a bed but never sleeps?
    Answer: A river.
19. What has a bark but no bite?
    Answer: A tree.
20. What kind of ball doesn’t bounce?
    Answer: An eyeball.

Logic and Riddle Questions

21. Five cows, all but three run away. How many are left?
    Answer: Three.
22. How many months have 28 days?
    Answer: All twelve.
23. Three apples are on a table. You take away two. How many do you have?
    Answer: Two—the ones you took.
24. What travels around the world while staying in one corner?
    Answer: A stamp.
25. A plane crashes on a border. Where are the survivors buried?
    Answer: Nowhere—survivors aren’t buried.
26. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters?
    Answer: Short.
27. You have to take one pill every 30 minutes for three pills. How long does it take to finish them?
    Answer: One hour.
28. How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
    Answer: Once—after that, you’re subtracting 5 from 20.
29. What is at the end of a rainbow?
    Answer: The letter W.
30. What can you hold without touching it?
    Answer: A conversation.
31. Two mothers and two daughters catch three fish. How is this possible?
    Answer: There are only three people: a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter.
32. Once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years. What is it?
    Answer: The letter M.
33. You pass the person in second place in a race. What place are you in?
    Answer: Second.
34. What must be broken before you can use it?
    Answer: An egg.
35. Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
    Answer: They weigh the same.
36. What can you keep after giving it away?
    Answer: Your word.
37. A man in a dark room finds a black cat. How does he know it’s there?
    Answer: He knows because he found it—he doesn’t necessarily have to see it.
38. What building has the most stories?
    Answer: A library.
39. Eight men build a wall in ten hours. How long would it take four men?
    Answer: It depends on how fast each man works.
40. What kind of cup doesn’t hold water?
    Answer: A cupcake.

Wordplay Trick Questions

41. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
    Answer: Incorrectly.
42. What kind of dog keeps the best time?
    Answer: A watchdog.
43. What starts and ends with an E but has one letter?
    Answer: An envelope.
44. What has words but never speaks?
    Answer: A book.
45. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
    Answer: The future.
46. What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
    Answer: A joke.
47. Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
    Answer: Ton.
48. What question can you never answer yes to?
    Answer: Are you asleep?
49. What word keeps its sound after losing four of its five letters?
    Answer: Queue.
50. Why can’t a bicycle stand up alone?
    Answer: It’s two tired.
51. What do you call a fish without an eye?
    Answer: A fsh.
52. What has four letters, sometimes nine, but never five?
    Answer: What.
53. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
    Answer: An echo.
54. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
    Answer: Silence.
55. What five-letter word has “six” left after removing one letter?
    Answer: Sixty.
56. What can be seen once in June, twice in November, but never in May?
    Answer: The letter N.
57. What word looks the same upside down and backward?
    Answer: Swims.
58. What word has 26 letters but only three syllables?
    Answer: Alphabet.
59. Why did the teacher wear sunglasses?
    Answer: Her students were so bright.
60. What common word becomes its own opposite when you add “un” to the front?
    Answer: Lock—”unlock” means the opposite.

Math Trick Questions

61. A train travels 60 miles an hour. What color is it?
    Answer: Any color—the train’s color is never stated.
62. Which is more, six half-dozen or half of a dozen?
    Answer: They’re the same—both are six.
63. Two coins total 30 cents, and one of them is not a nickel. What are they?
    Answer: A quarter and a nickel.
64. How many sides does a circle have?
    Answer: Two—the inside and the outside.
65. What is 30 divided by half, plus 10?
    Answer: 70—dividing by half means doubling.
66. A rooster lays an egg on a roof peak. Which way does it roll?
    Answer: Nowhere—roosters don’t lay eggs.
67. Remove my first or last letter, and I still sound the same. What am I?
    Answer: Empty.
68. There are three switches outside a room and one bulb inside. How can you find the right switch in one visit?
    Answer: Turn on one switch for a while, then turn it off. Turn on another switch and enter the room. The bulb that is on belongs to the second switch; the warm bulb belongs to the first switch; the cold, off bulb belongs to the third.
69. A butcher is five feet ten inches tall. What does he weigh?
    Answer: Meat.
70. What number can you multiply by anything and the answer never changes?
    Answer: Zero.
71. What comes next: 1, 4, 9, 16?
    Answer: 25.
72. How many months have 30 days?
    Answer: Eleven—all except February.
73. What number gives the same answer when added to itself or multiplied by itself?
    Answer: Two.
74. I am an odd number. Remove one letter and I become even. What number am I?
    Answer: Seven—remove the “S” and you get “even.”
75. What is half of 8?
    Answer: 0 split horizontally, or 3 split vertically.
76. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but nine die. How many are left?
    Answer: Nine.
77. There are six apples. You take away four. How many do you have?
    Answer: Four—the ones you took.
78. Which three numbers have the same total when added or multiplied?
    Answer: 1, 2, and 3.
79. How many seconds are in a year?
    Answer: Twelve—January 2nd, February 2nd, and so on.
80. There is one match, a lamp, a stove, and a candle in a cold room. What do you light first?
    Answer: The match.

Silly Brain Teasers

81. What can you break without touching it?
    Answer: A promise.
82. What band never plays music?
    Answer: A rubber band.
83. What is black and white and read all over?
    Answer: A newspaper.
84. Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
    Answer: It was feeling crumby.
85. What has a head and a tail but no body?
    Answer: A coin.
86. What fills a room but takes up no space?
    Answer: Light.
87. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
    Answer: It was outstanding in its field.
88. What always ends everything?
    Answer: The letter G.
89. Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
    Answer: They have no guts.
90. What shoes do frogs wear?
    Answer: Open-toad ones.
91. What must be opened before you can close it?
    Answer: An umbrella.
92. Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
    Answer: Because it would be a foot.
93. What has a bottom at the top?
    Answer: Your legs.
94. What key opens a banana?
    Answer: A monkey.
95. Why did the math book look so sad?
    Answer: It had too many problems.
96. What did the ocean say to the beach?
    Answer: Nothing—it just waved.
97. What has holes all over but still holds together?
    Answer: A net.
98. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
    Answer: A carrot.
99. What did one wall say to the other?
    Answer: Meet you at the corner.
100. Why did the picture go to jail?
     Answer: It was framed.