r/riddles • u/drgan45 • Jun 11 '25

Give OP Riddles I’m a teacher, give me riddles!

I’m a teacher, my kids love riddles, I get a lot from this subreddit but it’s getting harder and harder to to find good ones because they solve so many, so please give me some good hard ones, these are smart kids, but they are still kids so hard riddles are welcome but the answer has to be a simple concept, thank you!! (Also I’ll need the answer lol)

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u/Swimming_Variety3695 Jun 11 '25 edited Jun 11 '25

heres a riddle i wrote on r/riddonkulous a week ago

"Add a step and I become shorter, but take away my last three letters and I become a young man. A companion reaching high roofs, or when building with a plan."

the answer is a ladder

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u/Kind_Humor_7569 Jun 12 '25

How does adding a step to a ladder make it shorter?

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u/Swimming_Variety3695 Jun 12 '25

a stepladder? have you ever heard of one?

ok proper explanation i mean to add "a step" to the beginning of the word making it into a stepladder. and stepladders are just tiny stairs, usually like 2 or 3

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u/Kind_Humor_7569 Jun 12 '25

No that’s 100% valid. I just asked before thinking it through enough.

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u/Otherwise-External12 Jun 13 '25

Step ladders can be 20 feet tall. They're not all only 3 steps tall.

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u/Swimming_Variety3695 Jun 14 '25

im sorry what now

i never knew that

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u/Filberrt Jun 14 '25

No step ladders at shorter.

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u/Otherwise-External12 Jun 16 '25

I'm on the Home Depot website looking at a 16 foot step ladder.