Easy English Riddles PowerPoint

This PowerPoint presentation includes 10 easy English riddles, making them perfect for kids and beginner learners. It’s ideal to use in class as a quick warm-up, brain break, or fun activity. In my experience, it works best to put students in pairs or small teams to solve the riddles together. This encourages discussion and allows students to share ideas, while also giving lower-level learners to more easily participate. Below, you’ll also find all the riddles with answers and explanations, so you can go through them together and help students understand how each answer works.

Easy English Riddles With Answers

Here are the ten riddles that feature in this PowerPoint, together with the answers.

Questions

1. A woman and 9 friends are under ONE umbrella. But nobody gets wet. Why?
2. What are the next two letters in this? J, F, M, A, M, J, _ , _
3. How many months have 28 days?
4. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
5. What are the next letters in this and why? W, A, T, N, L, I, T, _ , _
6. You enter a dark room. There is a candle and a lantern. You only have ONE match. Which one do you light first?
7. An electric train is travelling east to west at a speed of 100kph. The wind is blowing west to east at a speed of 80kph. Which direction does the smoke blow?
8. What is the next number? 25, 24, 22, 19, 15, …
9. What does this say? HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH
10. As a man was going to the zoo, he met a man that he knew. This man had seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had sevencats, and every cat had sevenkittens. How many people, animals, and things are going to the zoo?

Answers

1. Because it wasn’t raining.
2. J, A (The letters are the first letters of the months – January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August )
3. All months have 28 days (some have more than 28).
4. A palm tree.
5. A, W (The answer is in the question – What are the next letters in this and why?)
6. Light the match first.
7. There is no smoke. It’s an electric train.
8. 10
9. High Five
10. One (The other man, wives, sacks, cats, and kittens are not going to the zoo – As a man was going to the zoo…)

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