Brain Teasers and Riddles
With Multiple-Meaning Words, Plus Spelling Riddles
Brain teasers and riddles are a great way to practice language skills. If students can see the humor in word play, it shows they have a good understanding of word meanings.
To solve these riddles, you’ll need to use words that have more than one meaning. For example, a story can mean a legend or news account, or it can mean the level of a building. The first joke uses this word. Scroll down to find some trickyspelling riddles.
Multiple-Meaning Mania!
1. How can you make a library bigger?
2. What kind of instruments do all animals have inside of them?
3. When do bad days usually fall apart?
4. When do kids get the most exercise?
5. What cannot run although it has three feet?
6. Why was the music teacher so upset?
7. If a man gives fifteen cents to one of his sons, and a dime to another, what time is it?
8. What’s the quickest way to make a point in your writing?
9. What is the fruit of history?
10. Where were the first donuts fried?
11. When do artists paint the best oceans?
12. What’s a prisoner’s favorite punctuation mark?
13. What never asks questions but is often answered?
14. What animals are well-educated?
15. Who is a sound sleeper?
16. What did the mountain say to the earthquake?
17. What do gingerbread men put on their beds?
18. Where do you find the biggest spiders?
19. How do you make an egg roll?
20. How do dog catchers get paid?
21. Why can't a leopard hide?
22. What has a lot of teeth but cannot chew?
23. What has an "eye" but cannot see?
24. What has a neck but no head, two arms but no hands?
25. What has a foot but no toes?
26. What can be cracked, made, told & played?
27. What has a bark but no bite?
28. What can you hold without using your hands?
29. What has a head, but no brain?
30. Why can't a chopped-down tree answer a question?
2. Organs.
3. Daybreak.
4. In a leap year.
5. A yard.
6. Because the students were always passing notes.
7. A quarter to two.
8. Sharpen your pencil.
9. Dates.
10. In Greece.
11. When they’re feeling blue.
12. A period, because it means the end of his sentence.
13. A doorbell.
14. Fish, because they travel in schools.
15. Anyone who snores.
16. It’s not my fault!
17. Cookie sheets.
18. On the World Wide Web.
19. Push it.
20. By the pound.
21. Because a leopard is always spotted!
22. A comb.
23. A needle or a potato.
24. A shirt.
25. A bed.
26. A joke.
27. A tree.
28. A conversation.
29. Lettuce or cabbage.
30. Because it's stumped!
Spelling Riddles
1. What group of FIVE letters spells a type of dish and a flower part?
2. What other group of SIX letters spells dangers and a handy tool?
3. What group of SIX letters spells part of your dresser and a special bonus?
4. What starts with T, ends with T and has T in it?
5. What five-letter words are spelled the same forwards and backwards?
6. What five-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
7. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
8. What is 3/5 chili, 2/6 catsup, and 2/7 goulash?
9. What do the letter T and an island have in common?
10. How do you spell COW in thirteen letters?
2. The letters E I L P R S spell PERILS and PLIERS.
3. The letters A D E R R W spell DRAWER and REWARD.
4. a TEAPOT.
5. CIVIC, KAYAK, LEVEL, MADAM, RADAR, REFER, ROTOR and others.
6. SWIMS.
7. SEVEN
8. CHICAGO!
9. They are both in the middle of WATER.
10. SEE O DOUBLE YOU.
More Brain Teasers and Riddles
You might also enjoy our brain teaser riddles that use homophones.
Why not try some of these assortments of fun brain teaser questions? Each one is also available in printable form.
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In addition to our brain teasers and riddles, your students might also enjoy our Mystery Words puzzlers and Picture Puzzler worksheet pages.
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