Ready for a brainy showdown? These clever kid-friendly trick questions will have even the smartest adults scratching their heads. Let’s see who outsmarts who!
What has hands but can’t clap?
I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
What gets wetter the more it dries?
How many months have 28 days?
What can you catch but not throw?
What comes down but never goes up?
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain?
Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
What has a head and a tail but no body?
If you have one, you want to share it. Once you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
What has one eye but can’t see?
What has many keys but can’t open any doors?
What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
What four-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
If you’re running in a race and pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
What’s full of holes but still holds water?
What invention lets you look right through a wall?
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
If you throw a red stone into the blue sea, what will it become?
Which room has no doors or windows?
What’s easy to lift but hard to throw?
What breaks but never falls, and what falls but never breaks?
What has legs but doesn’t walk?
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Which is heavier: 100 pounds of rocks or 100 pounds of feathers?
Which word becomes plural when you add an ‘s’ at the beginning?
What can’t be used until it’s broken?
What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
What runs but doesn’t walk, has a bed but never sleeps?
What disappears the second you say its name?
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people. How?
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Final challenge: A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and left on Friday. How?
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