What kinds of riddles are there for children?

Riddles: There are countless riddles and joke questions that require thinking around the corner, for example:

• What runs although it has no legs? (Answer: the nose)

• What has many leaves but is not a tree? (Answer: a book)

Puzzle books: Puzzle books for children are available from bookshops and newsagents. They usually contain a mix of different puzzles, for example:

• Find the differences / Spot-the-difference pictures: Here two identical pictures are compared and the differences have to be found

• Connect the dots/numbers: If the dots are connected in the right order, a picture appears

• Mazes: With a pencil the correct path through a maze must be found

• Sorting games: Certain objects must be assigned to others – or an item must be found that does not belong with the rest (e.g. a picture of a cucumber among a heap of fruits)

Crossword puzzles for children: Crosswords and children's Sudoku are suitable for primary-school children who are familiar with numbers and letters, and are good practice.

The riddle cards

• Funny questions and answers to make you think and laugh

• The secret weapon against boredom when travelling or waiting

• Simply print out and cut along the lines

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Think outside the box: riddle questions for children

Question: Which glasses don't you wear on your nose?

Answer: The toilet seat

Who is it? In winter he stands silently outside, all in white. But when the sun begins to shine, he starts to cry pitifully.

Answer: A snowman

What is it? Hole after hole and yet it holds together.

Answer: A chain

All together: riddle games for children

Riddle games are suitable as short activities, but also for children's parties or when children have visitors. From about three years of age, children can actively take part in the games and can also play together with older ones.

What's missing?

For children aged three and up

This puzzle game is a mix of language and memory exercises – and you can also play it with a single child.

How it works: Gather a few objects or toys that differ in size and shape – a soft toy, a colourful cup, a slipper, some pencils, wooden spoons. Your child should name each object once to remember them. Then they turn around or briefly leave the room. During this time you remove one of the objects. Now your child may look again and must say which object is missing. For toddlers, 3–4 objects are enough to start. The older a child is, the more objects you can use, or the more similar the objects can be – for example a coloured pencil and a felt-tip pen, a red and a blue ball, etc.

Guess the profession

For children aged four and up

How to play: A counting rhyme is used to choose a child who may start. They think of a profession silently and try to show it with typical hand movements – of course without saying a word (younger children may make noises, for example the hum of tools or cars). The other children must guess which profession is being acted out. The child who guesses correctly may act next.

All the birds fly up

For children aged three and up

This group game is not a riddle game in the proper sense – there is hardly any time to think. The children have to react lightning-fast and thus train their concentration and cognitive skills.

How to play: The children sit together at the table and place their index fingers on the tabletop. At first everyone begins by tapping the table with their outstretched index fingers. The child whose turn it is must think of animals or other flying objects and shout out loudly “All … fly up!” On “up” all the children raise their index fingers into the air – but only if the named animal can actually fly. So if the child calls “All parrots fly up!”, all hands go up. If they call “All rubbish trucks fly up!”, the children must keep tapping. Whoever lifts their finger at the wrong moment must hand over a token. At the end of the game the tokens can be redeemed again, for example by the children answering a riddle question.

HABA puzzle games for children aged 7 and up

The older the little puzzle fans get, the the puzzle challenges also become trickier, which they face in games. Our insider tip for children's puzzles for ages 7 and up: HABA games like the Logic! GAME Amanda's Alpacas or the Extension sets Nature and Dangerous Animals offer young puzzlers a wide variety of puzzling fun. The latter is great if they love children's puzzles with animals!

HABA puzzle games for children aged 8 and up

Many 8-year-olds are interested in exciting detective games, in which they themselves have to step into the role of detectives to find the perpetrators. The Key – Sabotage in Lucky Lama Land and The Key – Robbery at Cliffrock Villa offer exactly such mysterious cases for your Kids aged 8 and up ready. Will they succeed in finding the right information and combine them so that in the end they draw the correct conclusions?

HABA puzzle games for children aged 10 and up

10-year-olds are especially excited by challenges in which they can demonstrate their knowledge, such as this special children's puzzle for ages 10 and up:

• the Quiz Challene Europe with 180 quiz questions on a wide range of topics,

• the Team Quiz Challenge, for example on the topic Nature vs. Technology or Cats vs. Dogs,

• or the detective game The Key – Break-in at the Royal Star Casino, in which the replay value is particularly high, because every game unfolds differently!

HABA puzzle games for children aged 12 and up

Also for kids aged 12 and up our POINT OF VIEW puzzle series offers exciting stories – dive into quirky fantasy worlds, experience thrilling shifts in perspective and solve the most diverse cases:

• At POINT OF VIEW – Spooky Festival you, as a team, uncover puzzles together in a run-down amusement park.

• And in the latest edition POV – Clash Club you are on the hunt for a fugitive criminal. As a team you investigate the legendary "Clash Club", where the mysterious search unfolds quite differently than planned.

Riddles for kids

Are you looking for quick riddle ideas for in-between moments, for example as little travel riddles? How about riddles that will surely make your kids ponder and then laugh?

Question: Which glasses don't you wear on your nose?

Answer: The toilet seat

Who is that? In winter he stands there still and silent, all in white outside. But when the sun begins to shine, he starts to cry miserably.

Answer: A snowman

What is that? Hole after hole and yet it holds.

Answer: A chain

Create riddles yourself – spontaneous & in-between

Riddle games are suitable for in-between moments, but also for children's parties or when kids are visiting. And sometimes you can also spontaneously organize a kids' riddle, which is a lot of fun without much effort and which your children might even be able to take to kindergarten as a kids' riddle. Check out the following riddle ideas for children aged 3 and 4:

What's missing?

Kids' riddles for ages 3 and up

This riddle game is a mix of language and memory exercise – and you can also play it with just one child.

Here's how: Gather a few objects or toys together that differ as much as possible in size and shape – a stuffed animal, a colorful cup, a slipper, a few pencils, cooking spoons. Your child should name all the objects once to memorize them. Then they turn around or briefly leave the room. During this time you remove one of the objects. Now your child may look again and must say which object is missing. For toddlers, 3-4 objects are enough to start. The older a child is, the more objects you can use, or the more similar the objects can be – for example a colored pencil and a felt-tip pen, a red and a blue ball, etc.

All birds fly up

Kids' riddles for ages 3 and up

This group game is not a riddle game in the proper sense – there is hardly any time to think. The children have to react lightning-fast and thereby train their concentration and cognitive abilities.

Here's how:The children sit together at the table and each place their index fingers on the tabletop. At first everyone starts tapping the table with their extended index fingers. The child whose turn it is must think of animals or other flying objects and shout out loud 'All ... fly up!' On 'up' all children raise their index fingers into the air – but only if the named animal can actually fly. So if the child shouts: 'All parrots fly up!', all hands go up. If it instead shouts: 'All garbage trucks fly up!', the children must continue tapping. Whoever raises their finger at the wrong time must give up a token. At the end of the game the tokens can be redeemed, for example by the children answering a riddle question.

Guess the professions

Kids' riddles for ages 4 and up

Here's how:A counting rhyme is used to choose a child who may start. They think of a profession in silence and try to portray it with typical hand movements – of course without saying a word (younger children may make sounds, for example the humming of tools or cars). The other children must guess which profession is being portrayed. The child who guesses the profession correctly may be the next to act something out.