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👨‍👩‍👧 Family riddles - fun for all ages, with answers

Some of these are easy for kids and some will puzzle grown-ups. Take turns reading them out loud.

  1. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

  2. What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat and a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat?

  3. What can you make that no one can see?

  4. What is black and white and read all over?

  5. An electric train is heading south. Which way is the smoke blowing?

  6. Where does today come before yesterday?

  7. What has four eyes, but can't see?

  8. A mother and father have six sons, and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?

  9. A grandmother, two mothers and two daughters went shopping, and each bought one hat. Only three hats were bought. How?

  10. What do you call your mom's brother's son?

  11. Who is your father's sister's mother?

  12. What gets answered, but never asks a question?

  13. What kind of coat is best put on wet?

  14. What has one horn and gives milk?

  15. What is the end of everything?

  16. What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?

  17. What has a foot, but no legs?

  18. What is dirty when it's white and clean when it's black?

  19. What can point in every direction, but can't go anywhere by itself?

  20. What bird can lift the heaviest weights?

  21. What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?

  22. What has 21 eyes, but can't see?

  23. What has a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands?

  24. What can you sit on, sleep on and brush your teeth with?

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