30+ Fun Brain Teasers Questions with Answers

Easy (Good for younger kids)

1. I have hands but cannot clap. What am I?
   Answer: A clock.

2. I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
   Answer: A coin.

3. I go up but never come down. What am I?
   Answer: Your age.

4. I have lots of teeth but I cannot bite. What am I?
   Answer: A comb.

5. I travel all around the world but always stay in a corner. What am I?
   Answer: A stamp.

6. I have one eye but cannot see. What am I?
   Answer: A needle.

7. The more I dry, the wetter I become. What am I?
   Answer: A towel.

8. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
   Answer: A candle.

Medium (Great for ages 8–12)

9. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
   Answer: Footsteps.

10. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with sound. What am I?
    Answer: An echo.

11. I can fill a room but take up no space. What am I?
    Answer: Light.

12. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
    Answer: A map.

13. If you drop me I’m sure to crack—smile at me and I’ll smile back. What am I?
    Answer: A mirror.

14. I have a neck but no head. What am I?
    Answer: A bottle.

15. Which building has the most stories?
    Answer: A library.

16. I run all around a backyard, yet never move. What am I?
    Answer: A fence.

Hard (Brain-benders for older kids)

17. I’m not alive but I grow; I don’t have lungs but I need air; I don’t have a mouth but water kills me. What am I?
    Answer: Fire.

18. Two fathers and two sons eat three eggs, each person gets one—how is that possible?
    Answer: They are grandfather, father, and son (three generations).

19. What disappears as soon as you say its name?
    Answer: Silence.

20. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, and used by almost everyone. What am I?
    Answer: Pencil lead (graphite).

21. Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
    Answer: The word “ton” (backwards: “not”).

22. The maker sells it, the buyer never uses it, the user never knows they’re using it. What is it?
    Answer: A coffin.

23. I can run but never walk, I have a mouth but never talk, I have a head but never cry — what am I?
    Answer: A river.

24. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
    Answer: A bank.

25. I get sharper the more you use me, yet I never move.
    Answer: Your brain / mind.

26. I have a thumb and four fingers but I’m not alive. What am I?
    Answer: A glove.

27. What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
    Answer: A carpet (or rug).

28. I fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
    Answer: A cloud.

29. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
    Answer: A joke.

30. I’m easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
    Answer: A feather.

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