Riddles in English

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome! Today: Riddles

Today

• Lesson aims
• Explaining the game
• Playing the game
• Revealing the winner
• Gimkit?

Aims

I will have solved English riddles together with my classmates

Today: Riddle game

Everyone is going to get a number. That is your team number.

Every team will sit together and will need 1 laptop.

The teacher is going to show riddles. 

Your team will get 25 seconds to discuss in English what the answer is.

The person with the laptop will type the answer in the LessonUp. The team with most points wins a prize!

Teams

Remember your number well.

No switching!

Make sure you can discuss together and that one person brings a laptop.

Log in

Go to LessonUp and log in.

Think of a fun team name.

Get ready!

Riddle #1: What has to be broken before you can use it? Only fill in the word! (no article!)

An egg!

Riddle #2: I am tall when I am young. I am short when I am old. What am I?

It's a candle!

Riddle #3: What can't talk, but will talk back when spoken to?

It's an echo!

Riddle #4: The more there is of me, the less you see. What am I?

Darkness!

Riddle #5: You are running in a race and pass by the person who is in 5th place. What place are you in? Write down the number only!

You will be in 5th place

Riddle #6: What has a head and tail, but no body?

It's a coin!

Riddle #7: What begins with 'e' and only contains one letter?

An envelope!

Riddle #8: What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?

STONE!

Remove the letters

'St' 

You'll be left with

'one'

Discuss with your team what image best resembles how you are doing so far.

Get ready for the next riddles!

8 more to go!

Riddle #9: What has 4 wheels and flies?

A garbage truck!

Riddle #10: What starts with T, ends with T, and has T in it?

A teapot!

Riddle #11: What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

A deck of playing cards!

Riddle #12: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

Silence...

Riddle #13: I have a single eye but can’t see. What am I?

It's a  needle!

Riddle #14: What kind of room has no walls or corners?

A mush-room!

Riddle #15: I can heal and kill without touching you. What am I?

Time can heal you and kill without touching you!

Riddle #16: Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?

The word 'short'

Because short + er = shorter

And the winners are ...