A boy falls off a 6-meter ladder but does not get hurt at all. How is that possible?

He was wearing a helmet and pads

Which runs faster, hot or cold?

Hot, because you can catch a cold

Kids Brain Teaser Quiz: 10 Silly Trick Questions for Kids

This kids brain teaser quiz has ten silly trick questions, about a letter that appears twice in a week, a boy who falls off a ladder, where Friday comes before Thursday, a bear with no ears, a greenhouse, a mother with three children and the alphabet, plus a look at how poets like Shel Silverstein made kids laugh with clever words. Read each question twice.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

Letters
What comes once in a year, twice in a week and never in a day?
Ladders
A boy falls off a 6-meter ladder but does not get hurt at all. How is that possible?
Books
Where does Friday come before Thursday?
Animals
What do you call a bear with no ears?
Houses
A red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks. What is a greenhouse made of?
Families
Johnny's mother has three children. The first is April and the second is May. What is the third child's name?
Spelling
How many letters are there in the alphabet?
Time
What is always coming but never arrives?
Silly science
Which runs faster, hot or cold?
Mail
What starts with P, ends with E and has thousands of letters?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What comes once in a year, twice in a week and never in a day?
Answer: The letter E
Year has one E, week has two Es and day has none. The question sounds like it is about time, but it is really about spelling.
Q2: A boy falls off a 6-meter ladder but does not get hurt at all. How is that possible?
Answer: He fell off the bottom step
If you fall from the bottom step, you are only a few centimeters off the ground. The big number is there to trick you.
Q3: Where does Friday come before Thursday?
Answer: In a dictionary
In alphabetical order, F comes before T, so Friday is listed before Thursday in a dictionary.
Q4: What do you call a bear with no ears?
Answer: B
Take the letters E, A and R out of BEAR, and you are left with B. Word jokes like this are called puns.
Q5: A red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks. What is a greenhouse made of?
Answer: Glass
A greenhouse is a building for growing plants, usually made of glass to let sunlight in. It is not a house painted green.
Q6: Johnny's mother has three children. The first is April and the second is May. What is the third child's name?
Answer: Johnny
The question already says the mother is Johnny's mother. The month names make you think of June.
Q7: How many letters are there in the alphabet?
Answer: 11
Count the letters in the words the alphabet: t, h, e, a, l, p, h, a, b, e, t. That makes 11. Of course, the English alphabet also has 26 letters.
Q8: What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
When tomorrow comes, it becomes today. So tomorrow is always on its way but never actually here.
Q9: Which runs faster, hot or cold?
Answer: Hot, because you can catch a cold
This joke plays on the phrase catch a cold. If you can catch it, it must be slower than hot.
Q10: What starts with P, ends with E and has thousands of letters?
Answer: A post office
Post office starts with P and ends with E, and it handles thousands of letters every day. The riddle plays on two meanings of letters.

Kids Brain Teaser Quiz – Silly Questions, Smart Thinking

Brain teasers for kids are funny questions with a trick hidden inside. Some play with words, some hide the answer in the question and some lead you to think about the wrong thing. When children spot the trick, they feel clever and usually burst out laughing. That is what makes brain teasers such a fun way to practice careful thinking.

Many brain teasers use wordplay. The bear with no ears becomes the letter B, a greenhouse is not a green house and catching a cold makes cold sound slow. Others use spelling, like the letter E that appears once in year and twice in week. Some, like Johnny's mother, hide the answer in plain sight.

Poets and writers have long known that children love clever words. Shel Silverstein, author of Where the Sidewalk Ends, wrote poems full of jokes, surprises and silly logic. Dr. Seuss made up words and rhymes that turned reading into a game. Brain teasers continue this tradition of playful language.

To get better at brain teasers, children can read each question twice and ask, Is there a trick here? They can look at every word, think about other meanings and imagine the situation. Adults can join in by sharing their own favorite teasers.

Brain teasers are perfect for car trips, lunchboxes, classrooms and family game nights. They need no equipment, only a curious mind.

If your kids loved these trick questions, try our Kids Riddle Quiz and Kids Logic Puzzle Quiz too.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is perfect for children, families and classrooms.

How brain teasers hide a trick
Spelling and letter puzzles
Words with two meanings
Answers hidden in the question
Funny puns and wordplay
Writers like Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss

Quick Facts About Kids' Brain Teasers

Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends was first published in 1974.
Puns have been part of jokes for thousands of years.
Many trick questions only work when read aloud.
Brain teasers can help children practice reading carefully.
Some teachers start the school day with a brain teaser.
Kids often enjoy inventing their own trick questions.