30 Christmas Riddles for Students

1. Rearrange the letters in NOEL to make a word meaning 'without company.' What word is it?

2. I have a head, two arms and two legs, my buttons are made of icing, and you can bite off my foot without hearing a complaint. What am I?

3. Which three-letter verb about food is hidden consecutively inside WREATH?

4. A four-letter ruler is hiding at the end of STOCKING. Who is it?

5. I'm a tree's woody little seed package, covered in overlapping scales that open up when the air is dry. What am I?

6. Change the first letter of CANDLE from C to H. What new word do you make?

7. Three gift bags weigh 2 kg, 3 kg and 5 kg. Which single bag balances the other two bags together?

8. I get wetter the more I dry, and I'm busiest right after the big holiday dinner. What am I?

9. A team of 8 reindeer pulls a sleigh. How many reindeer legs are doing the pulling?

10. You hang 4 strings of lights with 25 bulbs on each, and 6 bulbs burn out. How many bulbs are still glowing?

11. Three gifts each take 4 minutes to wrap. You and a friend wrap at the same speed, one gift each at a time. What's the fewest minutes to finish all three?

12. A 1-meter string of lights has a bulb every 10 centimeters, including one at each end. How many bulbs does it have?

13. My name comes from the Latin word for 'ten,' yet I'm the twelfth month of the year. Which month am I?

14. Why is the Christmas alphabet one letter short? Because it has 'Noel.' Which letter is missing?

15. At holiday parties in Mexico I'm hung up high and filled with candy, and blindfolded guests take swings at me until I burst. What am I?

16. In the Philippines I'm a glowing, star-shaped lantern hung in windows all through the Christmas season. What am I called?

17. In the Netherlands, children set me by the fireplace in early December, sometimes with a carrot inside for a horse. What am I?

18. In Sweden, a big holiday decoration is made of straw and shaped like a farm animal with curved horns. Which animal is it?

19. Ava, Bo and Cy wrap a book, a scarf and a game. Bo wraps the game. Ava does not wrap the book. Cy does not wrap the scarf. Who wraps the book?

20. Using A=1, B=2 and so on, which holiday word is 2-15-23?

21. What color word can finish EVER and start HOUSE to make two new words?

22. I am a four-letter word on the good-behavior list. Remove my first letter and I become something that can cover a winter pond. What word am I?

23. Red, blue and green mugs hold cocoa, cider and tea. Green holds tea, and cocoa is not in blue. Which mug holds cocoa?

24. Add H to TREE and rearrange all five letters. Which number word appears?

25. Change the first letter of HOLLY from H to J. What cheerful word appears?

26. A tree has 5 rows of ornaments. The top row has 1, and each row below has 2 more than the row above it. How many ornaments are there?

27. I describe a winter day. Change my first letter to G, and I become a shiny color used on ornaments. What word am I?

28. Before electricity, I was a row of small candles clipped to tree branches. Now I'm a string of tiny electric glows. What am I?

29. You can catch me in winter, but you can never throw me. What am I?

30. I'm a cold, white winter word. Take away my first letter and I become the present moment. What am I?