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Grade 8 Challenge: Word Riddles Worksheet with Answers
Grade 8 (US) · Year 9 (UK) · Class 8 (India) · English
Unit 7: Going FurtherChallenge PuzzlesChallenge
Classic riddles that play with the double meanings of words. This free middle school 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 8 · English
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Learning goal: Challenge Puzzles
Directions: This worksheet has 2 parts. Read the instructions at the start of each part.
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: a bottle
Match each clue to the right word. Write the letter in the box.
- 1What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish?
- 2What can you catch but not throw?
- 3What has keys but can't open locks?
- 4What is full of holes but still holds water?
- 5What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
- 6What has many teeth but can't bite?
- APiano
- BMap
- CTeapot
- DCold
- EComb
- FSponge
Answer each question. Use full sentences where you can.
- 7
What has hands but can't clap?
- 8
Forward I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?
- 9
What has one eye but can't see?
- 10
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
- 11
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
- 12
What word is spelled wrong in every dictionary?
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Answer key — Challenge: Word Riddles (Grade 8)
- 1.B — a map
- 2.D — a cold
- 3.A — a piano
- 4.F — a sponge
- 5.C — a teapot
- 6.E — a comb
- 7.a clock
- 8.a ton
- 9.a needle
- 10.footsteps
- 11.an echo
- 12.wrong
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.B — a map
- 2.D — a cold
- 3.A — a piano
- 4.F — a sponge
- 5.C — a teapot
- 6.E — a comb
- 7.a clock
- 8.a ton
- 9.a needle
- 10.footsteps
- 11.an echo
- 12.wrong
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