Brain Teasers for Kids

Squigly has a huge collection of brain teasers for kids of all ages! These fun riddles are a way to challenge your thinking and problem solving skills. Share them with your friends and family. Read them aloud at the dinner table or while driving in the car. These clever questions will keep you and your kids entertained for hours. Answers are provided if you are completely stuck. We have organized our collection under the following headings: Clever Brain Teasers, Detective Mysteries, Math Games, Poem Riddles, Rebus Puzzles and What Am I Questions. Get ready to have a blast while you challenge your thinking!

Clever Brain Teasers: Riddles that require extra brain power to solve.

An electric train is going 40 mph north, the wind is blowing 60 mph south. Which way is the train's smoke blowing?

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Detective Mysteries: Put yourself in the detective's shoes to solve the case of these tricky and quirky mysteries.

A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

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Math Games: Use your math skills to figure out the answers to these perplexing math questions.

Give the place value of 5 in the number 254,879.

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Poem Riddles: Fun and clever brain teasers worded as poems.

I have four wings, but cannot fly,
I never laugh and never cry;
On the same spot I'm always found,
toiling away with little sound.
What am I?

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Rebus Puzzles: Can you figure out what these phrases or words mean?

What does this say?

nhappy

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What Am I Questions: Figure out what the clues are eluding to to get the correct answer.

I am the amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the United States?

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