101 Hilarious Trick Questions for Kids, Teens, and Adults!

If you’re looking for a fun challenge, try answering some trick questions! They may seem easy at first, but there is always some sort of trick. In that sense, they’re very similar to riddles, except with deception involved. Trick questions are very different from trivia questions because they don’t have anything to do with actual facts. They’re more about creative thinking and having fun. If you want to try stumping your friends, trick questions are a great way to laugh and develop a closer bond.

What are Trick Questions?

Trick questions are questions that are meant to mislead you, or make you think that the answer is something else than it actually is. They typically use misdirection, wordplay, or a sneaky assumption to push you toward the wrong answer.

For example, one trick question is “What months have 28 days?” You might think the answer is February, but the real answer is all of them, because all months have at least 28 days in them.

Your brain looks for shortcuts. When something sounds familiar, you go with the first answer that comes to mind. Trick questions take advantage of that habit.

Trick Questions

Trick questions are a fun way to challenge your brain. Some may seem easy at first, but they often have surprising answers that can catch you off guard. Go through this list and see if you can stump your friends and get a laugh!

1. How many months have 28 days?
   Answer: All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2. If a rooster lays an egg on top of a barn, which way does it roll?
   Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs.
3. What is blue and smells like red paint?
   Answer: blue paint.
4. What do you bury when it’s alive and dig up when it’s dead?
   Answer: A plant.
5. What has hands but can’t clap?
   Answer: A clock.
6. What type of button can’t be unbuttoned?
   Answer: A belly button.
7. What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
   Answer: The word “wrong.”
8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
   Answer: A towel.
9. A plane crashes on the border of the US and Canada. Where do you bury the survivors?
   Answer: You don’t bury survivors.
10. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, and is often found between banks?
    Answer: A river.
11. How much dirt is in a hole that is 3 feet wide and 3 feet deep?
    Answer: None. A hole has no dirt in it.
12. Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many have 28?
    Answer: All of them.
13. If there are 3 apples and you take 2, how many apples do you have?
    Answer: Two. Those are the ones you took.
14. What can you catch but never throw?
    Answer: A cold.
15. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed two nights, and left on Friday. How?
    Answer: His horse’s name is Friday.
16. What has a head and a tail but no body?
    Answer: A coin.
17. What is orange and sounds like a parrot?
    Answer: A carrot.

Easy Trick Questions

These easier trick questions are a great place to begin. They’re simple, fun, and perfect for warming up your brain before trying the harder ones. These are great to share in a casual setting such as a sleepover along with other games such as 21 questions.

18. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
    Answer: A gummy bear.
19. How many seconds are in a year?
    Answer: Twelve. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd…
20. What do you call a fish without eyes?
    Answer: A fsh.
21. What goes up but never comes down?
    Answer: Your age.
22. What has an eye but can’t see?
    Answer: A needle.
23. What has legs but can’t walk?
    Answer: A table.
24. What has ears but can’t hear?
    Answer: Corn.
25. What has a neck but no head?
    Answer: A bottle.
26. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea, what will it become?
    Answer: Wet.
27. What has teeth but can’t bite?
    Answer: A comb.
28. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
    Answer: A glove.
29. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
    Answer: A palm tree.
30. What has a ring but no finger?
    Answer: A telephone.
31. What is blue but not heavy?
    Answer: Light blue.
32. What has a spine but no bones?
    Answer: A book.
33. What has four wheels and flies?
    Answer: A garbage truck.

Hard Trick Questions

Are you looking for a more difficult challenge? These harder trick questions will require more critical thinking skills to figure out.

34. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
    Answer: Your left hand.
35. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?
    Answer: 9.
36. What starts with E, ends with E, but only has one letter in it?
    Answer: An envelope.
37. What goes up when the rain comes down?
    Answer: An umbrella.
38. Two fathers and two sons go fishing. They each catch one fish. They bring home 3 fish total. How?
    Answer: There are only three people. A grandfather, a father, and a son.
39. What is the maximum number of times you can subtract 5 from 25?
    Answer: Once. After that you are subtracting from 20, then 15, and so on.
40. I have cities but no houses. I have mountains but no trees. I have water but no fish. What am I?
    Answer: A map.
41. You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match. What do you light first?
    Answer: The match.
42. A man leaves home, makes three left turns, and returns home to find two masked men waiting. Who are they?
    Answer: The catcher and the umpire. He’s playing baseball.
43. What is always in front of you but can never be seen?
    Answer: The future.
44. How can a man go 10 days without sleep?
    Answer: He sleeps at night.
45. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me. What am I?
    Answer: A secret.
46. A man builds a house with four sides, and every side has a southern exposure. A bear walks by. What color is the bear?
    Answer: White. The only place you can build a house where every side faces south is the North Pole, where only polar bears live.
47. What question can you never answer yes to?
    Answer: Are you asleep?
48. You have two coins that add up to 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
    Answer: A quarter and a nickel. One of them is not a nickel, but the other one is.

Trick Questions for Kids

These trick questions for kids are silly, fun, and easy to understand. Kids oftentimes view trick questions like jokes, and think that they’re super fun. They’re a great way to get kids laughing while also making them think in a creative way.

49. How do you make the number one disappear?
    Answer: Add the letter G and it’s gone.
50. What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
    Answer: A dino-snore.
51. How is it possible to jump higher than a house?
    Answer: Because houses can’t jump!
52. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
    Answer: Nine.
53. What do you call a snowman in the summer?
    Answer: A puddle.
54. What do cats eat for breakfast?
    Answer: Mice Krispies.
55. What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
    Answer: Nacho cheese.
56. How do you make a tissue dance?
    Answer: Put a little boogie in it.
57. What do you call a pig that does karate?
    Answer: A pork chop.
58. What did the ocean say to the beach?
    Answer: Nothing. It just waved.
59. Why can’t Elsa have a balloon?
    Answer: Because she’ll let it go.
60. What do you call a fake noodle?
    Answer: An impasta.
61. What do you call a sad strawberry?
    Answer: A blueberry.
62. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
    Answer: Because he was outstanding in his field.
63. What do you call a dinosaur that crashes their car?
    Answer: Tyrannosaurus wrecks.
64. What building has the most stories?
    Answer: The library.
65. What do you call a bear with no ears?
    Answer: B.
66. How do you know when the moon has had enough to eat?
    Answer: When it’s full.

Trick Questions for Teens

If you’re with a group of teens, try out some of these trick questions. Teens notoriously think they know everything because they’ve gone through middle school and high school. Use these questions to try and stump them!

68. If you’re in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
    Answer: Second place.
69. What’s black and white and read all over?
    Answer: A newspaper.
70. What can you break without touching it?
    Answer: A promise.
71. What’s something that belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?
    Answer: Your name.
72. A girl fell off a 20 foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How?
    Answer: She fell off the bottom rung.
73. What key can’t open any door?
    Answer: A monkey or a donkey.
74. What is always coming but never arrives?
    Answer: Tomorrow.
75. What tastes better than it smells?
    Answer: Your tongue.
76. What can you keep after giving it to someone?
    Answer: Your word.
77. A boy kicks a soccer ball. It travels 10 feet and comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How?
    Answer: He kicked it straight up.
78. What has a heart that does not beat?
    Answer: Artichokes.
79. What has three feet but can’t walk?
    Answer: A yardstick.
80. A man married 20 women but broke no laws and was never divorced. How?
    Answer: He was a priest.
81. What three letters turn a boy into a man?
    Answer: Age.
82. What do you lose every time you stand up?
    Answer: Your lap.
83. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
    Answer: Short. Add “er” and it becomes “shorter.”

Trick Questions for Adults

Despite what the rabbit says, tricks aren’t just for kids! Try these trick questions for adults! These questions make for great ice breakers and conversation starters among adults.

83. A clerk at a butcher shop stands 6 feet tall and wears size 10 shoes. What does he weigh?
    Answer: Meat. He’s a butcher.
84. What type of ship has two mates but no captain?
    Answer: A relationship.
85. How many birthdays does the average person have?
    Answer: One. You’re born once.
86. What gets warmer the more it cools?
    Answer: An air conditioner.
87. What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every ending?
    Answer: The letter E.
88. What do you throw out when you want to use it and take in when you don’t want to use it?
    Answer: An anchor.
89. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
    Answer: Silence.
90. What man shaves multiple times per day but still has a full beard?
    Answer: A barber.
91. April showers bring May flowers. What do May flowers bring?
    Answer: Pilgrims.
92. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
    Answer: Light.
93. What coat goes on best when wet?
    Answer: Coats of paint.
94. How do you make the number one disappear?
    Answer: Add the letter “g” to the front to make it “gone”.
95. Which is heavier, 20 pounds of steel or 20 pounds of feathers?
    Answer: They both weigh 20 pounds.
96. What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
    Answer: A deck of cards.
97. What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?
    Answer: A widow.
98. What rock group consists of four men that can’t sing?
    Answer: Mount Rushmore.
99. What word becomes longer after you add two letters to it?
    Answer: The word “Long.”
100. What stays in the corner but travels all over the world?
     Answer: A stamp.
101. What can run, but not walk?
     Answer: A nose.