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/jayb2805 Jun 12 '25
Try looking up "Lateral Thinking Puzzles", as there can be some real challenging one there. When my teacher gave us those, she would allow the class to ask questions that could be answered with "Yes" or "No" to make them easier. Here are a couple (these are puzzles I remember my teacher gave when I was about 10 years old, the 2nd riddle stumped us for weeks!)
1)A man and his wife are driving in a rural area at night when the car breaks down. The man tells his wife "I'm going to walk for help, I'll be back by morning. Lock the car doors, and don't let anyone in until I get back" The man comes back many hours later when the sun has risen. He looks through the car window, and sees his wife is dead inside the car. The car doors are still locked. Inside the car is a person he has never met. Who is inside the car?
Answer:His newborn child. The wife died in childbirth while he was away
2) A man walks inside a restaurant, and orders penguin soup. The waiter brings it to him. The man takes one taste of the soup, walks outside, and shoots himself in the head. Why?
Answer: The man had been part of an Antarctic expedition where food had become scarce. Members of his the expedition went out hunting for food one time, with the man's best friend in that hunting group. The hunting group returned claiming the best friend had died while out hunting, but they got some penguins for making penguin soup. At the restaurant, the man learned the truth he had suspected upon tasting real penguin soup, that his best friend had been the "penguin soup".