20 Great Riddles with Answers for Family Fun
There’s nothing more important than spending quality time with your loved ones. Bonding with your family should happen on a regular basis as it helps produce healthy relationships with your spouse and children. Finding the time to interact with each other is crucial to improving communication among the family members and reinforces respect towards others. Children that are brought up in close families that are open to conversation and sharing emotions are more likely to value their siblings and parents in the future as they know how to listen and work together with them.
There are many things you can do to start practicing this and create a lovingly warm atmosphere for your kids. And no, it doesn’t always have to include going out for a picnic or watching Frozen (again!) When you’re tired of fighting over Monopoly and Dad buying all the streets you want, it’s time to do something less dangerous but still as fun. Engage your minds into a few easy and harder logical tasks to see who thinks of the answer first. In the end, it doesn’t even matter, as long as there are smiles on everyone’s faces. Remember, the family that laughs together, stays together!
1.
A man was driving a black truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. A lady was crossing the street. How did the man see her?
It was a bright, sunny day.
2.
If six children and two dogs were under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?
Because it wasn’t raining.
3.
A doctor and a boy were fishing. The boy was the doctor’s son, but the doctor was not the boy’s father. Who was the doctor?
His mother.
4.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M.
5.
What belongs to you, but is used more by others?
Your name.
6.
A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
Nowhere. You don’t bury survivors.
7.
If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room, which contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you light first.
The match of course.
8.
What comes down but can never go up?
Rain.
9.
What type of cheese is made backwards?
Edam.
10.
What can be as big as an elephant but weigh nothing?
The elephant’s shadow.
11.
In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
There weren’t any stairs, it was a one storey house.
12.
Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?
They were a grandmother, mother and daughter.
13.
A man was outside taking a walk, when it started to rain. The man didn’t have an umbrella and he wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
The man was bald.
14.
Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.
15.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footprints.
16.
Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”?
Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.
17.
I’m full of keys, but can’t open any door. What am I?
A piano.
18.
What is a word comprised of 4 letters, still is also made of 5. Occasionally written with 12 letters and later with 5. Never written with 5 but happily with 7.
What, Still, Occasionally, Later, Never, Happily
19.
What starts with a “P”, ends with an “E”, and has thousands of letters?
The Post Office!
20.
If you give me water, I will die. What am I?
Fire.
Reference: Funny Jokes 2 Go – funnyjokes2go.com/funny-riddles.html
