Looking for Christmas riddles for adults and kids to create the best family and friends time during the festivities? Scroll down and explore a variety of popular easy and hard Christmas riddles with answers suitable for people of all ages.
It is that time of the year again! Yes, Christmas is a time for celebrations and getting family and friends together. But when you have a Christmas party at home what can you do to keep everyone entertained? Riddles are one of the best ways to keep a party alive. And so we bring to a list of more than 100 riddles to add laughter and meaning to your Christmas celebrations.
Best Christmas Riddles for Adults and Kids with Answers
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1. Which of Santa’s reindeer moves the most quickly?
Answer: Dasher
2. What is the name of someone who is scared of Santa Claus?
Answer: Claustrophobic
3. Where does Thanksgiving come after Christmas?
Answer: In the dictionary
4. Which reindeer of Santa’s is visible on Valentine’s Day?
Answer: Cupid
5. Who doesn’t become hungry during Christmas?
Answer: The turkey, as it is always stuffed!
6. Santa rides how many reindeer?
Answer: 9 reindeer
7. I get cut up, adorned, and have wings on top of one end. So who am I?
Answer: Christmas tree.
8. What would the name of a lion’s Christmas music CD be?
Answer: Jungle Bells
9. What would the offspring of an apple and a Christmas tree look like?
Answer: A pineapple
10. I’m a Christmas plant that folks hang above. They then kiss someone they love while standing beneath me. So who am I?
Answer: Mistletoe
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11. I’m a metallic, glittery, colored strip that you can use to embellish your tree. Who am I?
Answer: Tinsel
12. December 31st is the end of the year. What is the end of Christmas?
Answer: “The letter – S.”
13. What do elves study in class?
Answer: The elf-abet.
14. What was on the gingerbread man’s bed?
Answer: Cookie trays!
15. What sort of egg may you ingest?
Answer: Eggnog!
16. Where did the eggnog originate?
Answer: England
17. Why was the turkey allowed to join the music group?
Answer: He had the drumsticks.
18. How did the three wise men know where to look for the infant Jesus?
Answer: A star guided them.
19. The Grinch who stole Christmas is what color?
Answer: Green
20. What sandwich is Santa’s favorite?
Answer: Butter & Peanuts
21. What holiday decorations do fish use?
Answer: The reefs are hung.
22. What sort of bird is able to write?
Answer: The pen-guin
23. What’s the best thing to put into a Christmas cake?
Answer: Your best friend’s face
24. What’s the name of an aged snowman?
Answer: Yes, water
25. What do you call a reindeer who is disrespectful?
Answer: Rudolph
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26. I work at a bank, but I have no money. So who am I?
Answer: A Snowbank.
27. What did Mrs. Claus use to wash Santa’s outfit?
Answer: The yuletide.
28. What breakfast item is a snowman’s favorite?
Answer: Flakes of ice.
29. What is red and white first, but then changes to red and red?
Answer: Santa falling down the hill
30. How did Santa defeat the villains?
Answer: He is a black belt
31. On Christmas, what or who was the cat eagerly awaiting?
Answer: Santa Claws
32. Where does Thanksgiving come before Christmas?
Answer: The dictionary
33. What do you call a reindeer who is disrespectful?
Answer: Rude-olph
34. Why was the stocking unwilling to partake in the holiday meal?
Answer: He was full of it!
35. Where do the elves and Santa go swimming?
Answer: Northern Pool
36. What types of photos do elves capture?
Answer: Elfies
37. What’s white, red, and blue throughout the holiday season?
Answer: A dejected candy cane
38. Where do dancing snowmen go?
Answer: The blizzard
39. Why are mummies so fond of Christmas?
Answer: Due to the extensive wrapping!
40. What holiday carols do fish sing?
Answer: Holiday Corals
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41. What holiday songs do monkeys sing?
Answer: “Jungle bells, jungle bells”
42. What carol do sheep sing during Christmas in Mexico?
Answer: “Fleece Christmas!”
43. Which Christmas song is also known by the name “Green sleeves”?
Answer: “What Child Is This?”
44. What song has Frosty the Snowman’s heart?
Answer: “Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow”
45. What food did the snowman eat at the fast food joint?
Answer: Ice burger with chili sauce
46. What kind of bug hates Christmas?
Answer: A humbug
47. Who among the elves sang the best?
Answer: Elfis Presley
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48. When Santa descends a chimney with a fire at the bottom, what do you call him?
Answer: Kevin Cringle
49. How was the snow globe feeling?
Answer: A little shaken
50. How do cats say “Merry Christmas” to one another?
Answer: Merry Christmas and a Happy Mew Year to all the furry ones.
51. The day before Christmas, what did Adam say?
Answer: It’s Christmas Eve.
52. Who gives fleas Christmas presents?
Answer: Old St. Tick
53. What kind of Christmas decorations are used on canoes?
Answer: Oar-naments
54. On Christmas Eve, how did Santa get disoriented?
Answer: He got mis-sled.
55. What did Santa use when he hurt his leg?
Answer: A candy cane.
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56. When the kids had finished opening gifts, what did the mother say?
Answer: Oh! What a Christmess!
57. Did you hear about the holiday celebration for the crackers?
Answer: It was a BANG!
58. What results when you cross a duck with mistletoe?
Answer: A Christmas Quacker
59. Who provides gifts to young sharks?
Answer: Santa Jaws
60. Where did Santa Claus travel during his vacation?
Answer: Santa Cruz
61. Comes with a lot of colors, so lovely and bright. I turn so many houses into a beautiful sight. Guess who am I?
Answer: Christmas lights.
62. Open me every day for something that can’t be beat. Behind each of the doors, you will discover a tasty treat. What am I?
Answer: Advent calendar.
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63. You place a skirt around my bottom once I’ve been chopped. On the other end, a star or angel is how I get topped. What am I?
Christmas tree.
64. Although it might look like I belong on your toes, I’m actually hung up for gifts as every child knows. What am I?
Answer: Christmas stocking.
65. I am a plant seen every Christmas which people hang up above and then they stand beneath me and kiss someone they love. What am I?
Answer: Mistletoe.
66. You might make me this Christmas so that you can stuff me in your face. A cake, icing, and candy make an edible dwelling place. What am I?
Answer: Gingerbread house.
67. What was the cost of Santa’s sleigh?
Answer: Nothing. It was on the house!
68. Why was the wig left out of the Christmas gift exchange?
Answer: Because it was really tangled
69. What do Santa’s helpers do to work out their problems?
Answer: They go to an elf-help group.
70. What do you call an old snowman?
Answer: Water
71. What do you wait for all year long and it just ends up looking like a giant human’s sock?
Answer: Christmas stockings
72. Why was a ticket given to Santa on Christmas Eve?
Answer: He abandoned his sled at a short-term parking area.
73. What does one business person say to another business person on Christmas?
Answer: “Season’s meetings.”
74. What do you use to drain your Brussels sprouts at Christmas?
Answer: An advent colander
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75. What did Mrs. Claus say to Santa when she looked at the sky?
Answer: “Looks like rain, dear.”
76. What do you call a snowman in the summer?
Answer: A puddle!
77. Which year would Christmas and New Year’s come in the same year?
Answer: Every year.
78. What is it that you can catch easily but cannot throw, especially during December?
Answer: A cold
79. Making everything white is my aim. No two pieces of me are ever the same. Playing with me is everyone’s favorite winter game. Do you know, what is my name?
Answer: Snow
80. Usually, during Christmas on doors, I am found with evergreens, pine cones, and berries arranged in a round. What am I?
Answer: A wreath
81. When going around the world, my red nose leads the way. I go to every country with my brothers as we pull Santa’s sleigh. Who am I?
Answer: Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
82. The inns were full in this little town, so in a manger he was born. Which town is this?
Answer: Bethlehem
83. All day I sit on a shelf, but come alive and move during the night. I tell Santa who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Who am I?
Answer: The Elf on the Shelf
84. Where do the reindeer go for Christmas dinner?
Answer: To their aunt-ler’s house.
85. What do you give an artistic dog for Christmas?
Answer: Fetch-A-Sketch
86. Why was the computer so quiet on Christmas Eve?
Answer: Because not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
87. Where will you be able to find the nine reindeer?
Answer: It depends on where you left them.
88. It gets killed. It gets dressed. It gets trinkets, and everyone smiles, looking at its star. What is it?
Answer: Christmas tree.
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89. He is a man during winter, but he might be a source of water during spring. Who is he?
Answer: A snowman.
90. You will buy me to eat, but you will never eat me. Not even during Christmas. What am I?
Answer: Cutlery.
91. What is something that travels all around the world like Santa Claus, but never leaves its corner?
Answer: A stamp.
92. I am an egg, but I’m meant to be drunk. What type of egg am I?
Answer: Eggnog.
93. Who will never be hungry during Christmas?
Answer: A stuffed turkey!
94. It has a body with crispy arms, white eyes, and funny feet. You might love to eat this too. What is it?
Answer: Gingerbread man.
95. You can take off its skin and still it won’t cry, but you will be in a pool of tears while making a Christmas meal. What is it?
Answer: An onion.
96. You can hold me and shake me, but I’m easy to break. I have lots of snow, even though it’s all fake! What am I?
Answer: A snow globe.
97. I am tall when I am young, and I am short when I am old. What am I?
Answer: A Christmas candle.
98. Christmas was just around the corner, and a sincerely honest politician, a lovely and genuinely kind lawyer, and Santa were sharing the elevator in an expensive 5-star hotel. They all saw a $100 bill on the floor of the elevator. Who do you think picked up the bill?
Answer: Santa, the other two don’t exist!
99. When Santa Claus sets off from the North Pole on Christmas Eve, in which direction does he usually travel?
Answer: South. Because everywhere is south of the North Pole.
The Last Five On The List
100. What can’t be put inside a saucepan while cooking Christmas dinner?
The lid.
101. What is always right in front of you, but can’t be seen?
Answer: The future.
102. If Santa’s five elves can take five minutes to make five dolls, then how long will 100 elves need to make 100 dolls?
Answer: Only five minutes.
103. What is the best Christmas gift you could get?
Answer: A broken drum
104. It is found in Christmas socks, scarves, and mittens, and often in the paws of playful kittens. What is it?
Answer: Yarn
105. What is the perfect thing to put into the Christmas pie?
Answer: Your teeth!
Have a great Christmas! And, don’t forget to explore our fun section on Christmas celebrations. From Christmas greetings to Christmas party games to wishes to funny Christmas movies to Christmas jokes, you will find everything that you can do during the Christmas holidays! In case you would like to explore more riddles, here is our collection of best riddles including murder mystery!