Folk riddles in fairy tales
Folk riddles in fairy tales
You can also introduce your child to fairy tales with the help of folk riddles. If your baby is not very assiduous, you can always interest him in riddles from fairy tales.
Folk riddles in fairy tales:
- He left his grandmother and left his grandfather. He sang songs under the blue sky; for the fox he became lunch. (Answer: Kolobok.)
- He is angry in character, gray in color, and he ate seven kids. (Answer: A wolf and seven kids.)
- Grandmother grabbed onto grandfather tightly: “Oh, I can’t pull it out, help, kids!” Good helpers will soon come running, common, friendly work will defeat the stubborn one. (Answer: Turnip.)
- A guy is sitting on the stove, eating rolls. He rode around the village and married the princess. (Answer: At the command of the pike.)
- Alyonushka's sisters took away the bird's brother. She was playing with her friends, but missed brother Vanya. (Answer: Geese-swans.)
- Misha walks through the forest, carrying a box on his back - granddaughter Masha baked pies for the woman and grandfather. She wrapped the intractable Misha around her little finger! (Answer: Masha and the Bear.)
- What kind of guest came to the house of three forest bears? There she ate, drank, slept in three beds, and the owners returned - she barely carried off her legs! (Answer: Three Bears.)
- Everyone's wives are like wives, his is a frog. But in the end Vanyushka will be happy about this. (Answer: The Frog Princess.)
- Quickly remember the fairy tale, the character in it is the boy Kai. The Snow Queen froze my heart, but the tender girl did not abandon the boy. She walked into the cold, blizzard, forgetting about food and bed. She was going to help a friend. What is his girlfriend's name? (Answer: Gerda from The Snow Queen.)
- A mother gave birth to a daughter from a beautiful flower. Nice, little one! The baby was an inch tall. If you've read the fairy tale, you know what the daughter's name was. (Answer: Thumbelina.)
- Like Baba, Yaga does not have exactly one leg, but she has a wonderful flying machine. Which? (The answer is a stupa.)
- Here’s a very easy, short question: who put a wooden nose in the inkwell? (Answer: Pinocchio.)
- The swamp is her home. Vodyanoy comes to visit her. (The answer is kikimora.)
- Evening would quickly approach, and the long-awaited hour would come for me to go to a fabulous ball in a gilded carriage! No one in the palace will know where I come from or what my name is, but as soon as midnight comes, I will return to my attic. (Answer: Cinderella.)
- A middle-aged man, with such a beard. He offends Pinocchio, Artemon and Malvina, and in general for all people he is a notorious villain. Do any of you know who this is? (Answer - Karabas-Barabas.)
Russian folk riddles about plants
Russian folk riddles about plants
Russian folk riddles about plants:
- The scarlet itself is sugar, the caftan is green, velvet. (The answer is a ripe watermelon.)
- A green calf is tied with a rope, lies on its side and gets fat. (The answer is cucumber.)
- The golden sieve of black houses is full. (The answer is a sunflower.)
- Little red nesting doll, little white heart. (The answer is raspberries.)
- Egorka is standing in a red skull cap, and whoever passes by bows. (The answer is strawberries.)
- Black, small, sweet - cute to the guys. Hiding under the green leaves . (The answer is blueberries.)
- Fedosya is sitting in the garden bed with his hair down. (The answer is onions.)
- Small baby, golden egg. (The answer is millet.)
- Like in a field, on a mound there is a chicken with earrings. (The answer is oats.)
- A small, remote one passed through the earth and found Little Red Riding Hood. (The answer is a mushroom.)
- Cossacks are standing, wearing white caps. (The answer is mushrooms.)
- The little guy went into the earth and came back wearing a blue hat. (The answer is flowering flax.)
- In winter with a gray beard, in summer a new one grows, in autumn it disappears. (The answer is deciduous forest.)
- The white ball grew, the wind blew, and the ball flew away. (The answer is dandelion.)
- No one is scared, but everyone is trembling. (The answer is aspen.)
Russian folk riddles with answers
Russian folk riddles with answers
Ancient Russian riddles are very interesting. Yes, it is likely that you will not be able to solve them the first time, but by connecting all your knowledge, you will be able to correctly answer the word puzzle.
Russian folk riddles with answers:
- The mother is fat, the daughter is red, the brave son has gone to heaven. (Answer: stove, fire, smoke.)
- They soaked it, beat it, tore it, twisted it and put it on the table. (The answer is a tablecloth.)
- I was at a fire, I was at a circle, I fed a hundred heads, I became old - I began to swaddle, they threw me out the window - and did not suit the dogs. (The answer is a cooking pot.)
- The fox ran close to the forest, jumped along the tops of the trees, didn’t set foot on the ground - couldn’t catch up, couldn’t see. (The answer is the sun.)
- When he comes into the house, you can’t drive him out with a stake, but when the time comes, he leaves on his own. (The answer is a ray of sunshine.)
- A steep-horned bull looks out from the high road. (The answer is a month.)
- Grandfather paved the bridge without an ax or a chisel. The bridge turned out to be strong, but it only lasted one winter. (The answer is ice.)
- The lanky man walked and got stuck in the damp ground. (The answer is rain.)
- Twelve eagles and fifty-two jackdaws laid one egg and left it in one nest. (The answer is a year.)
- The black cow conquered the whole world, drove people into courtyards and huts. White came and raised the whole world. (The answer is night and day.)
- She feeds everyone, both old and young, but she doesn’t ask for food, she just gives everything away. (The answer is earth. )
- They drink my blood, they burn my bones, they beat each other with my hands. (The answer is birch.)
- If you don't break the pot, you won't eat the porridge. (The answer is nut.)
- What you love, you can’t buy, and what you don’t love, you can’t sell. (The answer is youth and old age).
- The log lies in the middle of the swamp - it does not rot, does not dry out. Only occasionally does it appear in the white light. (The answer is language.)
Folk riddles for adults
Folk riddles for adults
Adults, just like children, love to spend time usefully. This is why folk riddles were invented. For a modern person, certain answers may seem complex in the way that some words are no longer used in everyday life. Therefore, to solve such verbal puzzles you will need to use all your knowledge.
Folk riddles for adults:
- If you look at it, you will cry, but there is nothing more beautiful than him in the world. (The answer is the sun.)
- A piece of bread hangs above the grandmother's hut. (The answer is a month.)
- White carrots grow in winter and disappear without a trace in spring. (The answer is an icicle.)
- He runs, he runs, but he won’t run out. (The answer is a river.)
- First it is green, then white, then blue. (The answer is currants.)
- There is a haystack in the middle of the yard, a pitchfork in front and a broom in the back. (The answer is a cow.)
- The hut was built without hands, without an axe. (The answer is a bird's nest.)
- There are pitchforks, on the forks there is a rake, above the rake there is a breather, above the breather there is a peeper, above the peeper there is a field, and beyond the field there is a dense forest. (The answer is a person.)
- Under the bridge, under the bridge, under the city, fortification, two trumpets were blowing, two candles were shining, two sables were playing. (Answer: lips, teeth, nose, eyes, eyebrows.)
- I will open the stable and let out a flock of white sheep. (Answer: mouth, teeth.)
- It cheers in the spring, cools in the summer, nourishes in the fall, and warms in the winter. (The answer is a tree.)
- The iron nose has grown into the ground, digs, digs, loosens the earth. (The answer is a plow.)
- The bowlegged one will ruffle his hair, the toothy one will comb his hair. (The answer is a plow and a harrow.)
- Little Dorofeyko has a short belt. (The answer is a sheaf.)
- No windows, no doors - full of a flock of swans. (The answer is cucumber.)
Folk sayings-riddles
Folk sayings-riddles
Folk sayings-riddles:
- Oh, don't touch me! I will burn you without fire. (The answer is nettle.)
- Without windows, without doors, the room is full of people. (The answer is pumpkin.)
- No arms, no legs, but he’s climbing uphill. (The answer is dough.)
- Without a tongue, without a voice, he will still tell small children an interesting fairy tale. What is this? (The answer is a book.)
- The white awl pierced the earth and dried it all up. (The answer is wheatgrass.)
- White peas on a green stem. They stand staggering in the wind. (The answer is lily of the valley.)
- White sheep run around the candle. (The answer is willow.)
- The white pebble melted and left marks on the board. (The answer is chalk.)
- A white animal wrote a message in the snow. The redhead read the message and easily found the white animal. (The answer is the hare and the fox.)
- In a small nut there stands, like a picture, a cheerful green beauty. (The answer is a Christmas tree.)
- In the field there are earrings on thin legs. (The answer is oats.)
- In the spring he lies in a colored sundress, in the winter he sleeps in a white shirt. (The answer is a field.)
- In the spring he dresses in green, in the fall he takes off all yellow. (The answer is forest.)
- It's all cast in gold and stands on a straw. (The answer is a colossus.)
- An ox roared a hundred villages away, a hundred rivers away. People heard and hid in the huts. (The answer is thunder.)
Folk riddles with answers about animals
Folk riddles with answers about animals
Folk riddles with answers about animals:
- White as snow, puffed up like fur, he walks on shovels. (The answer is a goose.)
- The brothers stood on stilts, looking for food along the way. Whether running or walking, they cannot get off their stilts. (The answer is cranes.)
- He walks on the ground, doesn’t see the sky, nothing hurts, but everything groans. (The answer is a pig.)
- It has wings, but it doesn’t fly, there are no legs, but you can’t catch up. (The answer is fish.)
- An old woman is weaving canvas in a cramped hut. (The answer is bees.)
- Who in the forest, without axes, builds a hut without corners? (The answer is ants.)
- It flies and howls, it sits and digs the ground. (The answer is a beetle.)
- There is an awl in front, a fork in the back, a towel on the bottom. (Answer: swallow.)
- He helps us with the housework and willingly inhabits his wooden palace. Dark bronze... (The answer is starling.)
- Blackens all migratory birds, cleans the arable land of worms. Jump back and forth across the arable land, and the bird’s name is... (Answer: rook.)
- If I knock, my head hurts, but if I don’t knock, I’m hungry. (Answer: woodpecker.)
- In the deserted taiga there is a pot. It is always boiling during the day, and quietly seething at night. (The answer is an anthill.)
- I’m not a tailor, I don’t sew clothes for anyone, but I’ve been walking around with needles all my life. (The answer is a hedgehog.)
- Not a rider, but with spurs, not a watchman, but waking up the whole village. (The answer is a rooster.)
- There is a coalless hut, crazy people live in it. They work day and night. (The answer is a beehive.)
Folk stories about clothes and jewelry
Russian folk riddles
Folk riddles about clothes and jewelry:
- Not the same in appearance, but needed equally by a baby, a dead man, and a good young man. (The answer is a shirt.)
- I walked along the road and found two roads. I had to run on both legs at once. (The answer is pants.)
- There is a head, but no brain, but there are ears, but no hearing. There is a back, but no belly. (The answer is bast shoes.)
- It came two ways, it went both ways. (The answer is boots.)
- I walk on my head, although on my feet. I walk barefoot, although I wear boots. (The answer is a nail in the boot.)
- He blushes, turns red, and climbs on his leg. (The answer is red stockings.)
- Under the forest, the forest, colorful wheels hang, girls are painted, young men are teased. (The answer is earrings.)
- Thickly rolled, interlaced a hundred times. Whoever guesses right gets a hundred rubles; whoever doesn’t guess gets a hundred lashes. (The answer is beads.)
- Five closets, one door. (The answer is gloves.)
- He goes into the forest and looks out from the forest. He comes out of the forest and looks into the forest. (The answer is a knapsack.)
- What kind of friend is there without whom a man cannot leave the hut? (The answer is a hat.)
- A secret pantry with all the new things: there are matches, tobacco, and a copper coin. (The answer is a pocket.)
- Two Arabs, knee-high brothers, walk with us everywhere and protect us. (The answer is boots.)
- Little Danilka is hanging on a loop. (The answer is a button.)
- If I put it on, it will become a rim; if I take it off, it will fall like a snake. It doesn’t provide heat, and without it it’s cold. (The answer is a belt.)
Ancient folk riddles
Ancient folk riddles
Ancient folk riddles:
- The reel rolls, not an animal, not a bird, not a stone, not water - you’ll never guess. (The answer is earth.)
- They beat me, stab me, turn me over, cut me - I endure everything and cry with everything good. (The answer is earth.)
- You can’t catch up with Father’s horse, you can’t close your mother’s box, you can’t roll up your sister’s ribbon. (The answer is wind, sky, road and earth.)
- One pours, another drinks, the third turns green and grows. (Answer: rain, earth, bread.)
- Zarya-lightning, a red maiden, walked across the field, dropped a tear, saw the month - did not say, saw the sun - raised it. (The answer is dew.)
- Lumpy, spongy, and lipped, and humpbacked, and dull, and sour, and insipid, and tasty, and red, and round, soft, and hard, and brittle, and black. (The answer is a loaf.)
- A white white girl was walking in the field, came home, and shook hands. (The answer is wheat bread.)
- The teeth are moving, the combs are waving, the reapers are running across the field like a boy running under a typewriter, the field is being cut bare. (The answer is harvest.)
- Which sea behind the village is stirred by the breeze? In it, waves can be collected and placed in a bag. (The answer is a field.)
- Stooped, hunchbacked, with a gag on his front. He will afforest the entire field, come home, and walk through the cracks. (The answer is a sickle.)
- Who eats hay without a mouth, with three teeth? (The answer is pitchforks.)
- With time I scatter, with time I gather. I am full myself and feed others. (The answer is a plowman.)
- On the field, on the farm stand the horses, picked up. They eat silk grass and drink dew water. (The answer is sheaves.)
- There is a post in the field, at the post there are a hundred tassels, at the tassels there are a hundred lashes, at the rings there are a hundred lashes. (The answer is a stack.)
- She got up from the ground and became a hut. And there is an owner, but he doesn’t live at home. (The answer is a shock.)