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Halloween riddles sheet

Ghostly, ghoulish and just a little bit groan-worthy. Ten easy riddles for little monsters and ten trickier ones for the grown-ups.

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How to use it

  • Print the riddles for each player or team and keep the answer page back.
  • Read a riddle out, give everyone a minute, then reveal the answer.
  • Give a sweet from the trick-or-treat bowl for every right answer.

Easy riddles for little monsters

  1. What room does a ghost not need?
  2. Why didn't the skeleton go to the party?
  3. What do you call a witch at the beach?
  4. What is a ghost's favourite fruit?
  5. Why do vampires never get fat?
  6. What do mummies listen to?
  7. What do you get if you cross a vampire and a snowman?
  8. Where do ghosts buy their food?
  9. What is a pumpkin's favourite sport?
  10. Why did the zombie stay home?

Trickier riddles for grown-ups

  1. The more of me there is, the less you see. What am I?
  2. I have a head and a tail but no body. What am I?
  3. I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
  4. What has roots nobody sees, is taller than trees, yet never grows?
  5. I follow you all day but disappear at night. What am I?
  6. What can you catch but not throw?
  7. I have keys but open no locks. What am I?
  8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
  9. What has one eye but cannot see?
  10. What breaks as soon as you say its name?

Answers

Easy riddles for little monsters

  1. A living room
  2. He had no body to go with
  3. A sand-witch
  4. Boo-berries
  5. They eat necks to nothing
  6. Wrap music
  7. Frostbite
  8. The ghost-ery shop
  9. Squash
  10. He felt rotten

Trickier riddles for grown-ups

  1. Darkness
  2. A coin
  3. A candle
  4. A mountain
  5. Your shadow
  6. A cold
  7. A piano
  8. A towel
  9. A needle
  10. Silence

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