75 fun riddles for teens with answers to get the mind working

75 fun riddles for teens with answers to get the mind working

Sharing riddles is one way of bonding with your loved ones. It is a fun activity to engage in and mind-simulating for both adults and young ones. Riddles can also create healthy competition among participants, especially among teens. You can introduce riddles during your next game night with your teens to keep them engaged. And these fun riddles for teens with answers will get their minds working.

Hard riddles for teens
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Keeping teenagers busy and occupied can be a challenge. Teenager have a lot of energy to burn and do not like to be bored. One way to keep them busy is by engaging them in fun activities, such as solving riddles. This will entertain them and improve their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Here are the best fun riddles for teenagers with answers to help you get started.

Fun riddles for teens

Riddles are fun questions that need answers that are not obvious. Help your loved ones, especially teens, to improve their critical thinking skills and proper analysis of situations with the riddles below.

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  • An Uber driver is going the opposite way down a one-way street. He passes five policemen along the way, none of which stops him. Why not? Because the Uber driver was walking
  • A girl buys a dozen eggs, and all but seven break on the way home. How many eggs are left unbroken? Seven
  • A man shaves many times during the day, but at the end of the day, he still has a beard. How is this possible? The man is a barber
  • What word is always spelt wrong? Wrong
  • What goes up and never comes down? Your age
  • The person who makes it does not need it, nor does the person who buys it. But the person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it? A coffin
  • What can go through glass without breaking it? Light
  • This vehicle is spelt the same from the front as well as from the back. What is it? A racecar
  • It has four fingers and a thumb but isn't alive. What is it? A glove
  • How many do you have if there are three apples and you take two? Two
  • A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How was that possible? Friday was the name of his horse
  • Two people were playing chess, and both won. How did this happen? They were playing against other opponents
  • You throw away my outside, eat my inside, then throw away the inside. What am I? Corn on the cob

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Riddles for high school students

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High school students need to sharpen their critical thinking abilities, and riddles will help them do just that. Here are the best riddles for high schoolers to keep them on their toes.

  • What has one eye but cannot see? Needle
  • What has four legs but can't walk? Table
  • Everyone has me, but nobody can lose me. What am I? Shadow
  • What is a witch's favourite school subject? Spelling
  • What has to be broken before you can use it? Egg
  • What goes through towns and over hills but never moves? Road
  • There was a plane crash, and every single person died. Who survived? Married couples
  • What invention lets you look right through a wall? Window
  • When my father was 31, I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I? I must be 23 if my father is twice as old as me.
  • Forwards, I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I? Ton
  • A life or death skill for gunfighters. Quickdraw
  • What number has all its letters in alphabetical order when spelt out? Forty

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Hard riddles for teens

Riddles for high schoolers
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Riddles are supposed to be challenging to make them more interesting to solve. Below are some hard riddles for teens to challenge them.

  • What can go up a chimney down but cannot go down a chimney up? An umbrella
  • They are many, and one, they wave, and they drum. You take them with you everywhere. What are they? Hands
  • Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch. After eating lunch, they paid the bill
  • But Sam and Peter did not pay the bill, so who did? Their friend, Tuesday
  • Name three days consecutively where none of the seven days of the week appear. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
  • They come in the night without being called, a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to the sight each day without the hand of a thief. Stars
  • If you are running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in? Second place.
  • A fashion statement whose name sounds like the upper part of a mobile war machine. Tank top
  • It runs smooth and can hit hard or soft. Loves to fall but cannot climb. What am I? Rain
  • What English word has three consecutive double letters? Bookkeeper
  • I sleep during the day and hide away. I open at dawn's light. I only shine for the briefest time, then hide away and sleep through the day. What am I? Sunrise
  • I sound so cool, and people all over the world come again and again to see me. Most people spend years with me, but you can't be too old or young to come to see me unless you decide to make me part of your career? I can make you smarter and wealthier too. What am I? School
  • I have no doors, but I have keys, I have no rooms, but I do have a space, you can enter, but you can never leave. What am I? A keyboard
  • What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify greatness, while the entire world signifies a great woman. Heroine

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Clever riddles for teenagers

Easy riddles for teens
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One of the fun ways to create a strong bond with teenagers is by engaging them with in a clever riddle challenge. Here are some amazing fun riddles for teens to develop their minds.

  • A girl is sitting in a house at night with no lights on. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How? The woman is blind and is reading braille
  • Why do you think Santa is good at doing Karate? Because his belt is black
  • What is made of water, but if you put it into water, it will die? An ice cube
  • What's the centre of gravity? V
  • It lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward. What is it? An icicle
  • What's the colour of the stairs in a single-storied house? The house has just one story, so there are no stairs
  • What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money? A river
  • Name one window that you actually cannot open (literally). The one that's on your computer
  • If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of pink bricks, what is a greenhouse made of? glass
  • Name that one thing with branches but without fruits or leaves. A bank
  • You can drop me from the tallest building, and I'll be fine, but I'll die if you drop me in water. What am I? A paper
  • Name a place where there is a divorce before marriage. The dictionary
  • Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh? Meat

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Funny riddles for teens

Riddles for high school students
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Laughter is the best medicine, and everyone deserves a good laugh. Here is a list of funny riddles for teens with to improve your sense of humour.

  • If an electric train travels south, how is the smoke going? There is no smoke. It's an electric train
  • What happens four times in a teenager's life, once in adult life and never in childhood? The letter E
  • Two fathers and two sons went duck hunting. Each shot a duck, but they shot only three ducks in all. How come? The hunters were a man, his son, and his grandson
  • How many teenagers does it take to empty the trash? No idea; they don't do it
  • What do you do if there is a kidnapping at high school? You wake him up
  • How can a man go seven days without sleep? He only sleeps at night
  • What book won't teachers give you credit for reading? Facebook
  • What can make an octopus laugh? Ten tickles (tentacles)
  • You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first? The match
  • Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks? Neither, they both weigh one pound.
  • If a chemistry and biology teacher go to a bar, where do they sit? The periodic table
  • Why couldn't the teacher control her pupils? She couldn't find her glasses

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Easy riddles for teens

Riddles for teens with answers
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Riddles don't have to be long to be interesting. Here are some easy short riddles for teens you should consider.

  • What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? A towel
  • What gets sharper the more you use it? Your brain
  • What kind of room has no doors or windows? A mushroom
  • What fruit is always sad? Blueberry
  • During which month do people sleep the least? February (There are fewer nights in February)
  • What has a head and a tail but no body? A coin
  • What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it? Silence
  • What can you hear but not touch or see? Your voice
  • What is full of holes but still holds water? A sponge
  • What can you throw but not catch? Your breath.
  • What's black and white and read all over? A newspaper
  • What has no beginning, end, or middle? A doughnut

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Riddles are a great way to entertain both adults and kids. They bring humour to everyday life and are also educative. Riddles can be tough, easy and funny and need logical thinking to get the correct answer. The above fun riddles for teens with answers will help them to improve their critical thinking skills.

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