The simplest riddle. Logic puzzles for elementary grades
What is in first place in Russia, and second in France?
(Letter "P")
A tin can was placed on the edge of the table, tightly closed with a lid, so that 2/3 of the can hung from the table. After a while, the bank fell. What was in the bank?
(piece of ice)
90 apples grew on a birch. blew strong wind, and 10 apples fell. How much is left?
(Apples do not grow on a birch)
You are in a competition and you have overtaken a runner in second position. What is your current position?
(If you answered that you are now first, then you are absolutely wrong. You overtook the second runner and took his place, so you are now in second position)
You overtook the last runner, where are you now?
(If you answered the penultimate one, you are absolutely wrong again. Think. How can you overtake the last runner? If you run after him, then he is not the last. The answer is impossible. It turns out that your use of the brain is not the forte)
Do not write anything or use a calculator, and remember - you must answer quickly. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?
(Answer 5000? Wrong again. The correct answer is 4100. Try to recalculate on a calculator)
Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Chacha 2. Cheche 3. Chichi 4. Chocho.
Question: What is the name of the fifth daughter? Think fast. The answer is just below.
(Choochu? NO! Of course her name is Mary. Read the question again)
When a woman lifts her leg, what do you see? Five letters, starts with P, ends with A.
What lengthens when it is picked up, passed between the breasts and thrust into the hole?
(Safety belt)
What does a woman have on her body, a Jew has in mind, is used in hockey and on a chessboard?
(Combination)
What has a head but no brains?
(Cheese, onion, garlic)
Run, run - do not run,
Fly, fly - do not fly.
(Horizon)
Little blue coat -
Covered the whole world.
blue field
Silver strewn.
(Stars on the sky)
blue handkerchief,
Red gingerbread man
Riding on a scarf
People smile.
(sky and sun)
White cat
Flying through the window.
(The lights of a sun)
Gray boars covered the whole field.
No arms, no legs
And the gate opens.
An eagle flies across the blue sky:
Wings spread out
The sun has stopped.
I'll look out the window:
There is a long Antoshka.
red rocker
It hung across the river.
No arms, no legs
And he knows how to draw.
The tablecloth is white
The whole world is dressed.
Flowing, flowing, not flowing
Runs, runs - does not run out.
Doesn't burn in fire
Doesn't sink in water.
Not the sea, not the land
Ships don't sail
And you can't walk.
What does half an orange look like?
(To the other half)
When is the best time for a black cat to sneak into a house?
(When the door is open)
Two nails fell into the water. What is the surname of a Georgian?
(Rusted)
There are two coins on the table, in total they give 3 rubles. One of them is not 1 ruble. What are these coins?
(2 rubles and 1 ruble. One is not 1 ruble, but the other is 1 ruble)
She was white and gray
Came green, young.
(Winter and spring)
Two people approach the river. Near the shore is a boat that can only support one. Both men crossed to the opposite bank. HOW?
(They were on different shores)
What do they drop when they need it and pick it up when they don't need it?
(Sea anchor)
There were two fathers and two sons, they found three oranges. They began to divide - everyone got one. How could it be?
(They were grandfather, father and son)
Hanging without work, standing while working, wet after work.
That it is easy to raise the earth, but it is difficult to throw far?
What rocks are not in the sea?
How do day and night end?
Who speaks all languages?
Four birches grew,
each birch has four large branches,
each large branch has four small branches,
there are four apples on each small branch.
How many apples are there?
(None. Apples don't grow on birch trees!)
What is it: blue, big, with a mustache and completely stuffed with hares?
(Trolleybus)
Which hand is best for stirring tea?
(In which there is a spoon, and if there is a spoon in both, then which is more convenient)
There were 12 chickens, 3 rabbits, 5 puppies, 2 cats, 1 rooster and 2 hens in the room. The owner came in with his dog. How many legs are in the room?
(Two. Animals have paws)
How many steps do you need to take to put a hippo in the refrigerator?
(Three. Open the refrigerator, plant the hippopotamus and close the refrigerator)
And how many steps do you need to take to put a giraffe in the refrigerator?
(Four: open the fridge, get the hippopotamus, plant the giraffe, close the fridge)
And now imagine: they arranged a race around the Kremlin, a hippopotamus, a giraffe and a turtle participate. Who will run to the finish line first?
(Behemoth, because the giraffe is sitting in the refrigerator...)
Can an ostrich call itself a bird?
(No, he can't talk.)
How many peas can go into one glass?
(Not at all, because peas do not go)
Small, gray, like an elephant. Who?
(Baby elephant)
How do day and night end?
(soft sign)
As you know, all primordially Russian female names end either in “a” or in “ya”: Anna, Maria, Olga, etc. However, there is only one female name, which does not end with either "a" or "i". Name it.
There is a woman on the floor, opening her hole.
What is it: a hard one is inserted into a soft one, and the balls dangle nearby?
What woman first rubs against you, and then demands money?
(Conductor on a tram)
It is no secret that the riddle develops the thinking of both kids and adults. Riddles teach you to look at the world from a different angle, increase a person's knowledge, show how you can formulate the same thought in different ways.
Each time, thinking about guessing a new tricky question with a trick, a person becomes more attentive, in the process of guessing, memory and even speech hearing are trained.
Riddles with a trick for kids
Two people approach the river. Near the shore is a boat that can only support one. Both men crossed to the opposite bank. HOW?
They were on different sides.
What do they drop when they need it and pick it up when they don't need it?
sea anchor
There were two fathers and two sons, they found three oranges. They began to divide - everyone got one. Cap could it be?
They were grandfather, father and son.
Hanging without work, standing while working, wet after work.
Umbrella.
What is it: blue, big, with a mustache and completely stuffed with hares?
Trolleybus.
What is in first place in Russia, and second in France?
The letter "R".
A tin can was placed on the edge of the table, tightly closed with a lid, so that 2/3 of the can hung from the table. After a while, the bank fell. What was in the bank?
A piece of ice.
90 apples grew on a birch. A strong wind blew and 10 apples fell. How much is left?
Apples do not grow on a birch.
Which hand is best for stirring tea?
In which there is a spoon, and if there is a spoon in both, then which is more convenient.
There were 12 chickens, 3 rabbits, 5 puppies, 2 cats, 1 rooster and 2 hens in the room. The owner came in with his dog. How many legs are in the room?
Two. Animals have paws.
How many steps do you need to take to put a hippo in the refrigerator?
Three. Open the refrigerator, plant the hippo and close the refrigerator.
And how many steps do you need to take to put a giraffe in the refrigerator?
Four: open the refrigerator, get the hippopotamus, plant the giraffe, close the refrigerator.
Now stand up; staged a race around the Kremlin, hippopotamus, giraffe and turtle participate. Who will run to the finish line first?
Hippo, because the giraffe is in the fridge...
Can an ostrich call itself a bird?
No, he can't talk.
How many peas can go into one glass?
Not at all, because peas don't move.
Small, gray, like an elephant. Who?
Baby elephant.
How do day and night end?
Soft sign.
As you know, all primordially Russian female names end either in “a” or in “ya”: Anna, Maria, Olga, etc. However, there is one single female name that does not end in either "a" or "I". Name it.
Love.
What does half an orange look like?
To the other half.
When is the best time for a black cat to sneak into a house?
When the door is open.
Two nails fell into the water. What is the surname of a Georgian?
Rusted.
There are two coins on the table, in total they give 3 rubles. One of them is not 1 ruble. What are these coins?
2 rubles and 1 ruble. One is not 1 ruble, but the other is 1 ruble.
Riddles with a trick are more difficult
1) Three tractor drivers have a brother Sergey, but Sergey has no brothers. Could this be?
Answer: Yes, if the tractor drivers are women, or we are talking about different Sergeys.
2) There were 50 candles burning in the room, 20 of them were blown out. How much will be left?
Answer: 20 will remain: blown out candles will not burn out completely.
3) If it rains at 12 o'clock at night, can we expect sunny weather in 72 hours?
Answer: No, in 12 hours it will be midnight again.
4) A tin can was placed on the edge of the table, tightly closed with a lid, so that 2/3 of the can hung from the table. After a while, the bank fell. What was in the bank?
Answer: A piece of ice.
5) Is it possible from two chemical elements create another element?
Answer: Yes, galvanized.
6) As you know, all native Russian female names end either in “a” or in “ya”; Anna, Maria, Olga, etc. However, there is one single female name that does not end in either "a" or "I". Name it.
Answer: Love.
7) Name five days without giving numbers (eg 1, 2, 3...) and names of days (eg Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...).
Answer: The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.
8) When is the best time for a black cat to get into the house?
Answer: Many immediately say that at night. Everything is much simpler: when the door is open.
9) There are a ruler, a pencil, a compass and an elastic band on the table. Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Where to begin?
Answer: Get a sheet of paper.
10) One train travels from Moscow to St. Petersburg with a delay of 10 minutes, and the other - from St. Petersburg to Moscow with a delay of 20 minutes. Which of these trains will be closer to Moscow when they meet?
Answer: 8 the moment of the meeting they will be at the same distance from Moscow.
11) Three swallows flew out of the nest. What is the probability that after 15 seconds they will be in the same plane?
Answer: 100%, because three points always form one plane.
12) There are two coins on the table, in total they give 3 rubles. One of them is not 1 ruble. What are these coins?
Answer: 2 rubles and 1 ruble. One is not 1 ruble, but the other is 1 ruble.
13) How fast must a dog run in order not to hear the sound of a frying pan tied to its tail?
Answer: This task in the company is immediately revealed by the physicist: the physicist immediately answers that she needs to run at supersonic speed. Of course, it is enough for the dog to stand still.
14) The satellite makes one revolution around the Earth in 1 hour 40 minutes, and the other in 100 minutes. How can it be?
0 answer: 1 h 40 min = 200 min
15) The roof of one house is not symmetrical: one slope makes an angle of 60 degrees with the horizontal, the other - an angle of 70 degrees. Suppose a rooster lays an egg on the ridge of a roof. In which direction will the egg fall - towards a more gentle or steep slope?
Answer: Roosters don't lay eggs.
16) The 12-storey building has an elevator. Only 2 people live on the ground floor, from floor to floor the number of residents doubles. Which button in the elevator of this house is pressed more often than others?
Answer: Regardless of the distribution of residents by floors, button "2".
17) The boy fell down 4 steps and broke his leg. How many legs will a boy break if he falls down 40 steps?
Answer: Just one, because the second one is already broken, or no more than one, if you're lucky!
18) Shel Kondrat to Leningrad,
And towards - twelve guys,
Each has three baskets,
In each basket - a cat,
Each cat has twelve kittens,
Each kitten has four mice in its teeth.
And old Kondrat thought:
“How many mice and kittens do the guys carry to Leningrad?”
Answer: Stupid, stupid Kondrat!
He alone and walked to Leningrad.
And the guys with the bows,
With mice and cats
We went to meet him - to Kostroma.
19) Is this possible: two heads, two arms and six legs, but only four in walking?
Answer: Yes, it is a rider on a horse.
20) Which wheel does not spin when turning right?
Answer: 3 safe.
21) Another riddle “with a beard”: two fathers and two sons walked, found three oranges. They began to divide - everyone got one. How could it be?
Answer: They were grandfather, father and son.
22) 90 apples grew on a birch. A strong wind blew and 20 apples fell. How much is left?
Answer: Apples do not grow on a birch.
23) What words exhausted Winnie the Pooh?
Answer: Long and difficult to pronounce.
24) Under which tree does the hare sit when it rains?
Answer: Wet.
25) How far into the forest can a hare run?
26) Which word always sounds wrong?
Answer: The word "false".
27) From which dishes you can not eat anything?
Answer: From empty.
28) Where does the chicken go when crossing the road?
Answer: On the other side of the road.
29) What can be cooked but not eaten?
Yes, a lot: homework, cement.
30) How can you put two liters of milk in a liter bottle?
Answer: Pour a liter into the bottle, when it is drunk, pour the second liter; or pour powdered milk ...
31) If five cats catch five mice in five minutes, how long does it take for one cat to catch one mouse?
Answer: Five.
32) How many months in a year have 28 days?
Answer: All 12, because if there are 30 days in a month, then there are 28 days among them.
33) What do they drop when they need it and pick it up when they don't need it?
Answer: Anchor (sea, not resource 😉
34) The dog was tied to a ten-meter rope, and walked three hundred meters. How did she do it?
Answer: She walked inside a circle with a radius of 10m, and not necessarily in a circle.
35) What can travel around the world staying in the same corner?
Answer: Finger on a map, globe; stamp on the envelope; internetchik!
36) Is it possible to light a match underwater?
Answer: If you are in a submarine, then yes.
37) How can a thrown egg fly three meters and not break?
Answer: The main thing is to throw it so that it flies more than 3 meters, then it will break not when it flies 3 m, but when it falls.
38) What will happen to the green rock if it falls into the Red Sea?
Answer: Nothing, except that it will crumble a little from the fall, or drown.
39) The man was driving a big truck. The lights on the car were not on. There was also no moon. The woman began to cross the road in front of the car. How did the driver manage to see her?
Answer: So it was during the day.
40) Two people were playing checkers. Each played five games and won five times. Is it possible?
Answer: Yeah, and lost too 5. We played a draw. It is also possible that they were not playing with each other.
41) What could be bigger than an elephant and weightless at the same time?
Answer: Vacuum, but in terms of volume it should take up a lot of space.
42) What do all people on Earth do at the same time?
Answer: They live.
43) What gets bigger when put upside down?
Answer: Sand level in an hourglass.
44) How to jump off a ten-meter ladder without hurting yourself?
Jump off the bottom step.
45) What has no length, depth, width, height, but can be measured?
Answer: A bunch of everything: speed, time, work, voltage, etc.
46) Which hand is better to stir the tea?
Answer: In which there is a spoon, and if there is a spoon in both, then which is more convenient.
47) When can the net pull out water?
Answer: When water turns to ice.
Fun tricky intelligence tests
Test #1
Answer quickly without hesitation. And don't look for answers!
1.
You are in a competition and you have overtaken a runner in second position.
What is your current position?
Answer to the question >>
Try to answer the second question of the test
2. You overtook the last runner, where are you now?
Answer to the question >>
3. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?
Answer to the question >>
4. Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Chacha 2. Cheche 3. Chichi 4 Chocho. Question: What is the name of the fifth daughter? Think fast. The answer is just below.
Answer to the question >>
Test #2
This test is very simple. You need to answer one question...
Why is honey golden?
P because the flowers get a lot of sunlight.
P because pollen is naturally golden in color.
P because the bees enrich it with enzymes that have this shade.
P because honey is what people make.
I Don't know.
Mind Test #3
Do you want to test your intelligence? Little test!
1.
So - the deaf-mute decided to buy a toothbrush. He goes to the store and gestures to the seller that he is brushing his teeth. The seller guesses what it is about, and the deaf-mute gets his brush.
Now the blind man decided to buy himself sunglasses. How can he inform the seller about this?
Think and then look for the correct answer...
Answer to the question >>
2. Make one word from the given set of letters - L O S O N D O O V
Answer to the question >>
3. The pilot jumped out of the plane without a parachute. How was he able to remain unharmed after landing on hard ground?
Answer to the question >>
Test #4
1. There are two bottles of 5 and 3 liters. How to use them to measure exactly a liter of water, without using any other containers.
Answer to the question >>
2. There are 5 mushrooms in the basket. How to divide the mushrooms between five mushroom pickers so that everyone gets equally and one mushroom remains in the basket?
Answer to the question >>
3. In 1970 the man was 30 years old, and in 1975 he was 25 years old. How is this possible?
Answer to the question >>
4.
Guess how many cats are in the room, if there is 1 cat in each of the 4 corners of the room, there are 3 cats in front of each cat, 1 cat is sitting on the tail of each cat.
Answer to the question >>
5.
Many of you have seen alcohol bottles in alcohol stores that also contain some large ripe fruit inside: an apple, a pear, etc. Now tell me how to put a sufficiently large ripe fruit (not dried) into such a bottle with a narrow neck without damaging without dividing it.
Answer to the question >>
6.
Not far from the coast there is a ship with a lowered rope ladder. The stairs have 15 steps. The distance between the steps is 45 cm. The lowest step touches the surface of the water. Suddenly, the tide begins, due to which the water level rises every hour by 15 cm. Question: after what period of time will the water level reach the third stage?
Answer to the question >>
7.
There are two traffic police officers on the road. One looks to the left to see if a car is approaching from the north, and the other looks to the right to see if a car is approaching from the south. Suddenly one asks the other: "What are you smiling at?". How could he know that the other inspector was smiling?
Answer to the question >>
8.
Imagine two cities, in one of which people speak only the truth, and in the other only lies. People from one city often go to visit people in another city and vice versa. If you find yourself in one of the cities, what is the only question you have to ask a passer-by to find out which of the two cities you are in?
Answer to the question >>
9.
A motorist in the parking lot in the morning found that his car had one flat tire. Despite this, he got into the car and drove 50 km to work and in the evening drove 50 km back again, without repairing or replacing the wheel. How is this possible?
Answer to the question >>
10.
An instrument for measuring time with a minimum number of moving elements is a sundial. Which instrument for measuring time has the maximum number of moving parts?
Answer to the question >>
11.
At a sports car competition, two of the best racers made an unusual bet - whose car will come slower is the winner and prize fund takes himself. At the start, when the start gong sounded, both cars did not even think to move forward. Everyone is confused, the competition is broken. To young people (racers). Came up old man and said something to both of them. After a short pause, both on the gas, who is faster, trying to overtake each other. The rules are unchanged - the fund will be taken by the one whose car comes second. Q: What did the older man say to the riders?
Answer to the question >>
12.
A man must transport a wolf, a goat and a cabbage from one side of the river to the other in a boat. But in addition to the person, only 1 character is still placed in the boat. In the presence of a person, no one eats anyone, but if you leave the wolf and the goat alone, then the wolf will eat the goat, if you leave the cabbage and the goat alone, then the goat will eat the cabbage. How can a person transport all three characters and so that no one eats anyone?
Answer to the question >>
13.
There are 3 coins of the same denomination, and one of them is counterfeit and it is also lighter than the other coins. How to find this coin using one weighing on a balance pan?
You can talk a lot about the development of the child, about the benefits various exercises, methods. But do not forget that you need to not only read useful books and articles on the Internet, you need to put all this into practice. It is not as difficult and does not take as much time as it seems.
For example, good old (or new unusual) riddles! After all, this is still the method of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers! So you can entertain the child, while doing anything around the house! Older children can even read and solve riddles on their own, on their own or with friends, instead of spending an extra hour on social networks or playing endless shooting games. Riddles for children 10 years old are somewhat more complicated, more interesting than for kids, so do not be afraid that children will be bored guessing them.
IN Lately more and more parents are trying to develop their baby from an early age, since everyone already knows about the faster assimilation of information and learning abilities at this particular age.
But when the baby grows up, often the enthusiasm of the parents disappears. And all the successes that have been achieved are gradually fading away.
And absolutely in vain! If the child continues to be interested, to maintain interest in development, in creativity, to notice his natural talents and develop them in every possible way, then in the future the parents will most likely have no problems - how to entertain the child? Or what to do with a child who is bored? And this, in fact, is a big problem of our time - children have forgotten how to play even with expensive “fancy” toys, which they usually now have in abundance, have forgotten how to play with friends in the yard, they have little company - they need a “mass entertainer”, an animator . And parents sincerely believe that this is how it should be - that we and our children simply grew up at different times. But pay attention: you probably have a familiar family where the boy is passionate about sports, rides a bike all the time, plays football, in the summer he not only disappears in the river and climbs trees, but also puts up ads to earn extra money for a cool skateboard ...
And the girls aren't all busy posting their next selfie in social networks, many have time to engage in origami, which is now fashionable, go in for music and gymnastics, dance and sports, draw and go to theater studios.
And if you don’t brush off children like an annoying fly, always depicting being busy and referring to fatigue (you must admit, we often do this), but making some effort and showing interest, then you can improve life and life little man so that he will be interested and you will not be a burden!
What are the riddles, you ask?
Yes, despite the fact that this is one of those activities that helps the child develop a “thinker”, think outside the box, show logic, recklessly look for a solution. It teaches to think, to master different subjects.
Funny, interesting unusual riddles for children of 10 years old form a sense of humor, help to become active and inquisitive.
So go ahead: find, read riddles to children, slip children instead of primitive comics, assign prizes, let them compose their own riddles! In general, create together, and have fun!
Riddles for children 10 years old - read, guess!
He won't whimper, he won't sneeze
the sea of dust will remove
he lives in my apartment
long trunk
myself in uniform
it makes noise like an airplane
purity only recognizes
(vacuum cleaner)
Don't stick your nose into this closet
Santa Claus lives there!
there is snow and cold even in summer
store cottage cheese and meatballs in it
(Fridge)
He catches the weather forecast
films, shows about nature
sits high on the roof
sees and hears best
(Antenna)
stick with rope
fish are caught smartly
unusual glass
I don't tease anyone
but everyone sees
what they showed me
(Mirror)
Quickly, quickly gnawed, gnawed
chewed a small chip
just didn't swallow at all
Ladder as a song in the field runs away
and on it houses catch up with each other
And pines and firs sister
yes, only in winter without needles she
(Larch)
She is born with a sickle
then becomes a circle
Five sisters are so similar
but they are not the same size
if they try
they all go into one
(Matryoshka)
five pretty boys
they all line up
age unites them
Only height distinguishes them
don't touch it is silent
knock sounds
(Drum)
My worker is tireless
all words convey correctly
rest only then
how silent I am sometimes
Here comes the flotilla
boat boat leads
all without oars and rowers
do not raise sails
(Duck and ducklings)
Like a pillow for needles
he walks angry and ringing
It flies without a wing
no legs - it runs
runs away sometimes
flies away forever
Handsome proud man in the yard
sharp spurs on legs
he wakes us all at dawn
through the mountains
he does not need a reward
no wages, no food!
(Telephone)
Brothers follow each other
in order, do not play pranks!
turn to each other
they don't want to give up.
Early morning every day
I'm getting everyone off the couch!
(Alarm)
Morning evening and afternoon
I pour rain on everyone
rain on demand
will wash away all the infection!
The rain starts - it immediately opens up.
There is a traffic controller at our crossroads
His three eyes shine for both Petya and Natasha!
(Traffic light)
It is given to a person at birth
but you can't use it yourself...
We have a manual sea
snow-white coast
and in winter the water in that sea
so warm, shallow!
Lives in the mouth - but do not chew
We chat with them but do not swallow
thick body with a wooden belly
iron belt he himself is useful
(barrel, barrel)
Riddles for children 10 years old with a trick
Here sits a boy and dad, if the boy gets up and goes to play, dad still won’t be able to sit in his place! Where is the boy sitting?
(on his knees)
What pebbles do not exist in the sea?
Can a chicken call itself a bird?
(No, she can't speak)
What sign should be placed between 7 and 8 to get a number less than 8 and greater than 7? (comma - 7.8)
What animals did Moses take into his ark? (None! It wasn't Moses, it was Noah!)
Here you are sitting in an airplane: a car is in front, a horse is behind, a lion is behind him ... Where is this possible ?! (On the carousel)
Who sleeps with open eyes? (Fish)
Even more puzzles for children 10-12 years old in the continuation of this article!
Abstract thinking, the ability to find a non-trivial solution to a complex problem, analysis and logic - all these qualities are characteristic distinctive features human intellect. To train these qualities, already from childhood, special types of tasks are actively used - logical (or "with a catch"). When solving them, you need to understand that the solution does not require any unique information - just strain your imagination and turn on the logic.
Riddles with a trick (answers in brackets)
Examples of logic puzzles:
- that he is at rest all the time, even when going up or down a mountain? (road);
- who can light a match underwater without much effort? (sailor in a submarine);
- what do the numbers 69 and 88 have in common? (if you turn them over they will look the same);
- Is it possible to get a coin that a person dropped into tea without getting his fingers wet? (you can, if the tea is not brewed);
- what clock is showing right time only twice a day? (broken).
The process of guessing riddles is an entertaining and boring pastime. Riddles help children learn everything around, develop fantasy and imagination. And adults really like to find answers to original and tricky questions. Therefore, riddles are always of interest to both children and adults.
And there are some more interesting mysteries in the next video.
Riddles for children an important part developing games and activities, they are used in any method early development and develop the mind, logical thinking and ingenuity. In this section, we have selected for you the best and interesting riddles for children with answers (only 2000! children's riddles). And to make it easier to navigate in their diversity, we grouped children's puzzles into categories.
Riddles for children. What is their use?
Riddles for children are always:
- training their memory;
- good science of concentration;
- a great opportunity to pacify an active child, make him more assiduous;
- unobtrusive switching of attention;
- vocabulary expansion;
- a reason for fun;
- active stimulation of figurative thinking;
- a fun way to get to know the world around you;
- a great chance to chat with your child for an extra minute, give him your attention, turn from an eternally busy parent into a true friend.
The most important thing is to choose the right riddle. If you overestimate the capabilities of the child and choose too complex, from an interesting pastime, it will quickly turn into a boring, uninteresting activity for him. As, however, are too simple riddles that quickly deprive children of enthusiasm.
The secret of the amazing effect of riddles for children lies in several of its components at once.
- Firstly, in the form of a children's riddle that attracts children so much, it turns learning into exciting game, an adventure that makes you think logically, analyze, develop observation skills, strive for knowledge of the world. Curiosity is the engine of many discoveries.
- Secondly, in the content of the riddle, which most successfully reflects various aspects of a person’s life and activities, his life, environment, relationships, etc.
- Thirdly, in the universality of the riddle: children of all ages can guess riddles, and this can be done anywhere (at home, in nature, on the road, at a party, at a holiday) and at any time. They are always appropriate, especially if chosen according to the chosen location and occupation.
When choosing children's riddles, first of all, give preference to those, the answer to which the child can not only guess, but also pronounce.
No more restrictions! Think of any object, animal, fairy tale hero, profession, transport, holiday, number, letter ...
Naturally, it is more interesting and easier for a child to find answers among what surrounds him and what he likes, so always try to ask childish riddles that are relevant at the moment. In the forest, ask riddles about mushrooms, trees, with your grandmother in the village - about pets, on the road - about transport, at dinner - about vegetables, fruits, food. It is especially important that the answer is in the field of view of the smallest, because their logical thinking is still being formed, therefore, it needs prompts - sound, visual.
Turn any of the child's learning (development) processes into an exciting "riddle" game and see how interesting and fun it is to learn together.
If you want to have fun with your friends, then choose as an entertainment riddles more difficult with answers. In order to guess them, your guests will have to pretty rack their brains. By and large, such riddles are no different from simple riddles. It just takes more time to figure them out. At first glance, complex riddles may seem easy, but you should take them carefully, because in this lightness lies the catch. Practicing in guessing challenging puzzles, you will develop your thinking and creative imagination.
Children also love to solve complex riddles. For the little ones, puzzles of the following type are suitable:
No legs and no arms
And the artist is still the same.
Answer: frost.
Blue sky
Covered with silver.
Answer: starry sky
red bun,
Blue scarf.
Riding on a scarf
Smiling at people.
Answer: sun and sky
She was gray and white
Came young, green
Answer: spring and summer
Complex logic puzzles with answers
It is easy to pick it up, but it is difficult to throw it far.
Answer: fluff.
What stones in the sea can not be found?
Answer: dry.
In France, it is in second place, and in Russia, it is in first place. What is this?
Answer: the letter "R".
On the table was a tin can with a lid. She was 2/3 hanging off the table. After a while, the bank fell. To have it in it?
Answer: ice.
There were 16 apples growing on an oak tree. A strong wind blew and 10 apples fell. How many apples are left hanging on the tree?
Answer: apples do not grow on oak.
You are a participant in the competition and overtook the third runner. What score are you running now?
Answer: if you overtook the third runner, then you took his position. Accordingly, you run third.
You are a participant in the competition and overtook the last runner in a row. What is your current position?
Answer: it is impossible to overtake the last runner, because he is the last one. The condition of the problem was originally set incorrectly.
Solve the following example without using a calculator. Add 40 to 1000, then another 1000, then another 1000 and another 30. Add 20, 1000 and 10. What number did you get?
Answer: you should get 4100. If you got the number 5000 - you counted wrong, check yourself on the calculator.
Christie's father has five daughters: Chocho, Chichi, Cheche, Chacha. What is the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer: Christy.
Riddles with answers difficult adults
What can be seen in a woman if she lifts her leg? Ends with "A", starts with "P"?
Answer: heel
The most inquisitive will like the most difficult riddles for children.
What increases in size if you take it in your hands, pass it between the breasts and put it in the hole?
Answer: seat belt
The Jew is on the mind, the women are on the body, is it used on the chessboard and in hockey?
Answer: combination.
Does he have a head, but no brains?
Answer: garlic, onion.
Fly - do not fly
Run - do not run
Answer: horizon
Blue coat
Covered the whole world
Answer: sky
White cat climbs in the window
Answer: rays of the sun
Gray boars covered the whole field
Answer: fog
No legs and no arms
And the gate opens
Answer: wind
Russian difficult riddles with answers
Looked out the window
Long Antoshka is walking there
Answer: rain
Hanging across the river
scarlet rocker
Answer: rainbow
Won't drown in water
Will not burn in fire
Answer: ice
Not land, not sea
Ships don't sail here
And you can't walk
Answer: swamp
What does half a pear look like?
Answer: for the other half of the pear
Difficult funny riddles with answers
2 nails fell into the water. What is a Georgian surname?
Answer: Rusted.
How does night and day end?
Answer: soft sign
Who can speak any language?
Answer: echo
Tell me what it is: with a mustache, big, blue, lucky hares?
Gray, small, like an elephant.
Answer: elephant
There is a grandmother on the floor, opening her hole
Answer: stove
Itself firm, and in soft are inserted. There are only balls hanging around ...
Answer: earrings
This woman will first rub against you, and then she will also demand money ...
Answer: conductor
Very difficult riddles with answers.
10 difficult riddles with answers.
1. One girl dropped her bracelet into a cup of coffee during breakfast. Why did he stay dry? Answer: there was no water in the cup, there was only instant or ground coffee.
2. This is given to us three times: the first 2 times are free, but the third one will have to be paid. Answer: teeth.
3. When we look at the number 2, but say 10 at the same time? Answer: when we look at the clock, and the hand points to 10 minutes of some hour.
4. Imagine there are two doors in front of you. On one of them is written "Happiness", and on the other - "Death". Both doors are guarded by two identical guards. One of them constantly tells the truth, and the second one constantly lies. Which of them is who - you do not know. You can only ask one question to the guards. What kind of question should this be so that you do not make a mistake in choosing a door? Answer: “If I ask you to show me the door that leads to happiness, which door will the second guard show me?” After this question, choose the second door.
5. A man bought apples for 5 rubles per piece, but sold them for 3 rubles per piece. After some time, he became a millionaire. How did he do it? Answer: He was a billionaire.
6. You have a lot of water, as well as a three-liter and five-liter jar. In a five-liter jar you need to collect exactly 4 liters of water. How to do it? Answer: draw water into a five-liter jar, pour water out of it into three-liter jar. Pour water from a three-liter jar, pour 2 liters of water from a five-liter jar into it. Collect water in a five-liter jar, pour water from it into a three-liter jar of water, where just the required amount of space is left.
7. Imagine that you are sitting in a boat floating in a pool. In the spoon itself lies a cast-iron anchor, which is not attached to it. If you drop the anchor into the water, how will the water level in the pool change? Answer: The water level will decrease. As long as the anchor lies in the boat, the boat itself displaces the volume of water that corresponds to the volume of the anchor, as well as its own weight. If the anchor is thrown overboard, it will displace a volume of water equal to its own volume.
8. Father and went camping with his two sons. On their way they will meet a river with a raft on the shore. A raft can support either two sons or one father. How can the whole family swim across to the second shore? Answer: The two sons are sent first. One son returns to his father, swims with him to the second shore.
9. A steel ladder was lowered from the side of the ship. 4 lower steps are submerged under water. Each of the steps has a thickness of 5 centimeters. There is a distance between two steps, and it is 30 centimeters. The water level began to rise at a rate of 40 cm per hour as the tide began to rise. How many steps do you think will remain underwater for two hours? Answer: After 2 hours, there will also be 4 steps under the water, because along with the rise in the water level, the steps will also rise.
10. In 3 days, 3 hens lay 3 eggs. How many eggs will twelve hens lay in twelve days? Answer: one hen is able to lay 1 egg in 3 days, therefore, in twelve days she will lay 4 eggs. Multiply 4 by 12 (number of chickens) - you get 48 eggs.
The most difficult riddles with answers
Masha and Vanya played in the dark and dirty attic. After the game they went downstairs. Masha's face was clean, and Vanya's was dirty. However, only Masha went to wash. Why?
Answer: Masha looked at Vanya's dirty face and thought that she was also dirty. And Vanya looked at Masha's clean face and thought that he had a clean face.
The day before yesterday, Mitya was 16 years old, next year he turns 19. How is this possible?
Answer: Mitya's birthday is December 31st. Today is January 1st. The day before yesterday the boy was 16 years old, after that on December 31 he turned 17 years old. This year he will be 18 years old, and next year - 19 years old.
The man was found dead in his office. He had a pistol in his hand, a voice recorder on the table, and his body was tilted over the table. The police turned on the recorder, on which they heard the following words: "I want to leave this life, for me it has ceased to have any meaning." After that, a shot rang out. The police immediately realized that the man did not die himself, but he was killed. How did they guess about it?
Answer: The voice recorder tape was rewound to the beginning.
5 challenging riddles with answers.
1. In order for people to get to underground utilities, hatches are used. As a rule, manhole covers are round in shape. Why? Answer: a round lid will never fall through, but square or rectangular lids may well fall through.
2. Is it possible to boil water in a paper cup over an open flame. Answer: The boiling point of water is less than the ignition point of paper. Boiling water prevents the paper from getting hot enough to catch fire. Based on this, water in a paper glass can boil.
3. You were about to drink a cup of coffee with milk, but you only managed to pour coffee into a glass. For a few minutes you are asked to leave for just a few minutes. What is the best way to make the coffee hot when you return: pour milk after arrival or before leaving? Answer: the cooling rate is proportional to the temperature difference between the surrounding air and the heated body. Based on this, milk must be poured before leaving, so that its further cooling is slower.
4. Kolya and Misha bought one box of chocolates each. Each of them contains 12 candies. Kolya ate a few sweets from his box, and Misha ate the same amount of sweets that were left in Kolya's box. How many sweets did Kolya and Misha have left? Answer: 12 candies.
5. It is believed that a bird's egg has one blunt end for a reason. Why? Answer: oval and spherical bodies roll in a straight line. If the body has one of the ends blunt, then it will roll in a circle. If the egg is on the side of a mountain, then having such a shape is a great advantage for it.
Riddles are a phenomenon that is present in all peoples, regardless of their degree of development. In ancient times, riddles were a tool to test the wisdom of man. Now they serve entertainment purposes, but with their help you can also test the sharpness of your mind, because in order to solve the riddle, you need to look at the situation from a different angle, which not all people are capable of.
In this article, we will give a selection of the most difficult riddles and suggest answers to them so that you can instantly understand whether the correct answer came to your mind. The riddles given in our selection baffled many minds. You will have to break your head well to find the answers to them.
The riddles given in the rating are designed for people with different type thinking - somewhere clear logic is required, and somewhere - the ability to look at the situation from a completely atypical angle. Therefore, both people prone to consistent rational thinking and people with a creative, intuitive mindset will find interesting riddles here.
Do not be discouraged if you cannot find answers to many riddles on your own. They may just not suit your type of thinking. In any case, periodic training of your mind and a warm-up for the brain will never hurt. Solve other riddles, and after a while, when you forget the answers, come back to these, and you will probably be able to solve more.
Riddles with a trick
Here we give a list of short riddles, the answer to which is not obvious and carefully eludes us during brainstorming. As a rule, in solving such riddles, anything but the correct answer comes to mind, and when we recognize it, it seems so simple and obvious.
- This is given to a person three times in a lifetime. The first two are free, and the third will have to be paid. What is this?
Answer: teeth. - Four frogs were sitting on the bank of the pond. One of the frogs wanted to dive into the pond. How many frogs are left sitting on the shore?
Answer: four frogs remained sitting on the shore. The fact is that the condition of the riddle does not say that the frog dived into the water, it only wanted to do it, remaining at that time still sitting on the shore. - One man is able to shave his beard clean more than ten times a day, while continuing to walk beard. Who is he?
Answer: barber. - Two residential buildings located nearby caught fire. One of them is the luxurious mansions of an influential rich man. The other is the meager dwelling of the poor. When the police arrive, whose house will they start putting out fires first?
The police will not extinguish any house, because this is the work of firefighters. - The man bought apples for $7 per apple and sold them for $4 per apple. Some time later, he became a millionaire. How could this happen?
Answer: He was originally a billionaire. - In the first room there are three light bulbs, and in the second room there are three switches. Find out which switch is responsible for which bulb. The room with the lights can only be entered once.
Answer: First we turn on one light bulb and wait a couple of minutes. After - we extinguish it and briefly turn on the next one. Next, we enter a room with light bulbs and feel them. The first will be the hottest, the second will be colder, and the third will be very cold. - A resident of Paris could not stand the Eiffel Tower, but he liked to dine in the very restaurant that is located in it. Can you explain his preference?
Answer: this restaurant is the only place from where he could not see the Eiffel Tower. - What is in first place in Russia and second in France?
Complex math problems
In these riddles, you will need not so much the ability to look at the situation from an atypical angle and go through many non-trivial options, showing creative thinking, but how to apply accurate mathematical calculations, turn on logic and rationality.
A customer in a trading shop wanted to buy goods for 10 rubles. He paid the seller with a banknote of 25 rubles. There was no money left in the cash register, so the clerk sent an assistant to the store next door to change the money. The assistant returned with the following banknotes: 2 x 10 r and one - 5 r. The seller handed over the change, left the profit at the checkout. After some time, they returned to him from a nearby store and demanded a refund, since the 25-r note turned out to be counterfeit. How much did the seller lose?
Answer: 40 r: 15 r and gave the goods worth 10 r to the client (25 r), and returned 25 r to the store, of which 15 is his money.
Imagine a box containing many apples. First, half of all apples and half of one fruit were taken from it. After - they got half of all the remaining apples and another half of one apple. Next, half of all the remaining apples and another half of the apple were taken out of the box again. At the end, there are 31 apples left in the box. How many apples were in the box at the very beginning?
Answer: 255.
Various folk riddles
Here we present some examples of famous folk riddles.
Egyptian riddle: It is better than God, and at the same time worse than the Devil. The rich don't know anything about it, but the poor have it. Whoever eats it will die. What is this?
Answer: Nothing.
Gaulish riddle: the Gaulish priests suffered a serious complication - the mobilized warriors were late with the appearance at the point of issue of weapons and armor. Gallsike priests solved the problem by announcing the sacrifice of one person. Who was the unlucky one?
Answer: those who will be the last to the collection point.
