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If you're looking for funny riddles (with answers), you're in the right place. A simple scroll below will lead you to ten humorous riddles, designed to put a smile on your face, or your friends and family when you re-tell them. Or if you're a teacher or work in online teaching jobs, you may find that riddles are a great classroom tool.
Using Funny Riddles for Teaching
When you feel like you’re teaching a hundred classes a week, it can be difficult to feel like you’re exploring new ideas and fresh methods of teaching.
If you’ve been keeping an eye on growing trends within the ESL community then you might already know that riddles are fast becoming popular in the classroom, including rhyming riddles.
It gives your student twice the work, with half the effort on your part – first they have to answer the riddle, and then they have to translate it.
Below you’ll find ten funny riddles to set the groundwork, and give you something to build on.
Some will make you roll your eyes and others will hopefully be good for a smile or two.
10 Funny Riddles
Simply click the funny riddle to reveal the answer…
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1. What has hands but will not clap?
A stubborn clock.
2. What can only be used once you've smashed it to pieces?
An egg.
3. What has a perfectly good eye but cannot see a thing?
A needle.
4. Which letter of the alphabet is most fond of the water?
C.
5. In a one story blue house, there lived a blue man. The blue man had a blue dog, and the blue dog had a blue bowl. The man slept in a blue bed and he washed in a blue sink. He ate from blue plates and he drank from blue glasses. What colour were the stairs?
There weren’t any stairs, it’s a one story house.
6. A man sits alone in a dark room, reading a book; there is no source of light. How does he read?
He’s blind and reading Braille.
7. What’s born in the winter but dies in the summer, and grows with its roots in its head?
An icicle.
8. Which rock is the biggest party animal?
The moon, because it's out every night.
9. Which word is spelt wrong in every edition of the dictionary?
Wrong.
10. A man decided to go seven days without sleeping. His friends are amazed. ‘You don’t even look tired’, they say. ‘Seven days with no sleep? What’s your secret?’ How does the man respond?
He says ‘well obviously I’ve been sleeping at night.’
Final Thoughts on Funny Riddles…
Riddles that can make you smile are always worth the time and effort you put into implementing within your class structure. They don't always have to require a lot of thought like the Chicken, Fox and Grain Riddle, but can just be used to add a little but of fun to the day.
As an added bonus, if you can make your students enjoy learning then they’ll actually learn faster.
So consider adding these funny riddles to your arsenal, and maybe even encourage your student to make their own in your online teaching classes with platforms like:
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5 Rhyming Riddles (With Answers) – Can You Solve Them All?