10 EASY RIDDLES

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10 Easy Riddles
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10 Easy Riddles To Solve

These ten easy riddles are the perfect riddles for the novice riddler or to introduce your children to the wonderful world of riddles. How many can YOU solve?

David's Father
Riddle: David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
Answer: David.
10 Easy Riddles: David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____? Answer: David.

Three Consecutive Days

Riddle: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Answer: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

What Color?
Riddle: You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
10 Easy Riddles: You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be? Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.

Lucky To Be...
Riddle: Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?
Answer: This man is bald!

Keep Out
Riddle: What runs around the whole yard without moving?
Answer: A fence.
10 Easy Riddles: What runs around the whole yard without moving? Answer: A fence.

Lifeguards Playtime
Riddle: What's a lifeguard's favorite game?
Answer: Pool.

Five Apples
Riddle: Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket?
Answer: Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket.
10 Easy Riddles: Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five girls so that each girl gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket? Answer: Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket.

Bad Bird!
Riddle: Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow?
Answer: The Ostrich. It's the only bird that doesn't fly.

Fragile Beauty
Riddle: A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
Answer: I am a Butterfly.

Three Lives Have I
Riddle: Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?
Answer: Water. Explanation: Water can be in the form of a liquid, solid (ice), and/or a gas (water vapor) which is represented by "three lives".  As a liquid, it is used to bathe, as a gas it creates clouds that float in the sky, and as a solid (ice), it can split rocks or create glaciers that scour the earth as they move downhill.
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10 Easy Riddles Answers:

  1. David.
  2. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
  3. What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
  4. This man is bald!
  5. A fence.
  6. Pool.
  7. Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket.
  8. The Ostrich. It's the only bird that doesn't fly.
  9. I am a Butterfly.
  10. Water. Explanation: Water can be in the form of a liquid, solid (ice), and/or a gas (water vapor) which is represented by "three lives".  As a liquid, it is used to bathe, as a gas it creates clouds that float in the sky, and as a solid (ice), it can split rocks or create glaciers that scour the earth as they move downhill.