The Everything Kids Riddles & Brain Teasers Book (13 page)

When the princess arrived at the castle and found the new labyrinth, how did she feel?

A maze-d!

What does Sir Galahad turn on when he gets scared at night?

A knight light.

In
Centerville
, it normally takes
2 days
to send a letter from one house to another—
1 day
to mail it, and
1
to have it delivered. But Mrs. Smith always receives her mail the same day it is sent.
How can that be?

How could the
carpenter
know how tall to make his door just by using his
hands?

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A Matter of Symmetry
Being symmetrical means that your right side and left side are mirror images of each other. The human body is symmetrical because we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, and 2 legs, and they are very much alike. But do they act the same? For example, most people have one hand that they prefer writing with. But what if you tried writing with a hand you don't normally use? If you can do most things with both hands, you are what they call “ambidextrous.”

If
two
twins were both to
marry
and they both had twins, and then their
twins
had twins,
how many
twins would there be?

Every year
Dillon
gets older, he gets a dollar more for his birthday. How much
money
will he have when he is
10?

What type of father has no sole?

The barefoot type.

What did Samuel Wilson become when he married an aunt?

Uncle Sam.

If you can't tell your Grandpa something, what do you do?

Telegram (tell a Gram)!

Which one of Mother Earth's children warms her heart the most?

Her “sun”!

What did the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe need more than anything else?

A break!

What does your mother's sister become when she's nervous?

Aunt-sy.

Words to Know

humor:

Something that is designed to be comical or amusing. Jokes and comedy are said to be humorous, because they can make us laugh.

I
t was my job to solve the riddle of the missing girl who lost her glass slipper. The only way to solve the problem was to try the shoe on every foot in the kingdom.
Who am I?

What was the piano's father's father?

His “grand” pa.

What do you call it when your sister demands to enter?

In-Sis-ting.

Who takes care of baby moths?

Their moth-er.

Where do apples search for their roots?

In their family tree.