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Grade 5 Challenge: Word Riddles Worksheet with Answers
Grade 5 (US) · Year 6 (UK) · Class 5 (India) · English
Unit 7: Going FurtherChallenge PuzzlesChallenge
Classic riddles that play with the double meanings of words. This free upper elementary worksheet has 12 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.
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Grade 5 · English
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Class
Date
Learning goal: Challenge Puzzles
Directions: This worksheet has 2 parts. Read the instructions at the start of each part.
What has keys but can't open locks?
Answer: a piano
Match each clue to the right word. Write the letter in the box.
- 1What can you catch but not throw?
- 2The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
- 3What is full of holes but still holds water?
- 4What has legs but can't walk?
- 5I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
- 6What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
- AEcho
- BFootsteps
- CTeapot
- DCold
- ESponge
- FTable
Answer each question. Use full sentences where you can.
Word bank
- 7
What gets wetter the more it dries?
- 8
What has hands but can't clap?
- 9
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
- 10
What has many teeth but can't bite?
- 11
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
- 12
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
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Answer key — Challenge: Word Riddles (Grade 5)
- 1.D — a cold
- 2.B — footsteps
- 3.E — a sponge
- 4.F — a table (or chair)
- 5.A — an echo
- 6.C — a teapot
- 7.a towel
- 8.a clock
- 9.a stamp
- 10.a comb
- 11.wrong
- 12.a ton
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.D — a cold
- 2.B — footsteps
- 3.E — a sponge
- 4.F — a table (or chair)
- 5.A — an echo
- 6.C — a teapot
- 7.a towel
- 8.a clock
- 9.a stamp
- 10.a comb
- 11.wrong
- 12.a ton
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