103 Christmas Riddles for a Festive Family Game Night

If you're hosting Christmas dinner at your house this year and are in need of some kid-friendly Christmas activities and festive party games for the family, these Christmas riddles (with answers!) will keep everyone happy. Adults and kids can go around asking each other these tricky questions and you can come back to the most difficult holiday puzzles when you need a break from baking Christmas desserts.

These clever Christmas jokes are great for all ages and Christmas traditions, whether your family always has an Elf on the Shelf or you spend the winter holidays playing outside in the snow. You can even write one of these Christmas riddles in a DIY Christmas card for a festive twist on traditional holiday greetings. Who knows? Maybe reading and solving holiday riddles together will become an annual event for your family.

Funny Christmas Riddles

1. Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
   Answer: In the dictionary

2. What do you call a disrespectful reindeer?
   Answer: Rude-olph

3. Why didn't the stocking want to eat Christmas dinner?
   Answer: He was stuffed!

4. Where do Santa and the elves go for a swim?
   Answer: The North Pool

5. What kind of pictures do elves take?
   Answer: Elfies

6. What's white, red, and blue at Christmas time?
   Answer: A sad candy cane!

7. Where do snowmen go to dance?
   Answer: The snowball

8. Why do mummies like Christmas so much?
   Answer: Because of all the wrapping!
   

9. What did the snowman order at the fast food restaurant?
   Answer: An ice burger with chili sauce

10. What kind of bug hates Christmas?
    Answer: A humbug

11. Which elf was the best singer?
    Answer: ELFis Presley

12. What do you call Santa when he goes down a chimney with a fire at the bottom?
    Answer: Krisp Cringle

13. How was the snow globe feeling?
    Answer: A little shaken!

14. How do cats greet each other at Christmas?
    Answer: Have a furry Merry Christmas and a Happy Mew Year.

15. What did Adam say the day before Christmas?
    Answer: "It's Christmas, Eve."

16. If athletes get athletes foot, what do astronauts get?
    Answer: Missletoe.

17. Where do the three wise men go to get their robes tailored?
    Answer: Bethle-hem.

18. Who brings Christmas presents to fleas?
    Answer: Old St. Tick

19. What do you use to decorate a canoe for Christmas?
    Answer: Oar-naments

20. How did Santa get lost on Christmas Eve?
    Answer: He got mis-sled.

Christmas Riddles with Answers for Kids

1. I come with many colors so beautiful and bright, I turn so many houses into a beautiful sight. What am I?
   Answer: Christmas lights

2. Which one of Santa's reindeer is the fastest?
   Answer: Dasher

3. Which one of Santa's reindeers can be seen on Valentine's Day?
   Answer: Cupid

4. If a lion had a Christmas music album, what would it be called?
   Answer: Jungle Bells

5. What do elves learn in school?
   Answer: The elf-abet!

6. What did the gingerbread man put on his bed?
   Answer: Cookie sheets!

7. What kind of egg can you drink?
   Answer: Eggnog

8. What is a snowman's favorite breakfast?
   Answer: Frosted flakes

9. Who was the cat waiting for on Christmas?
   Answer: Santa Claws
   

10. What's Santa's favorite candy?
    Answer: Jolly Ranchers!

11. What is a reindeer's favorite instrument?
    Answer: Horns

12. I am found in Harry Potter. I am also seen in the Lord of the Rings. I also make gifts and spread smiles. Who am I?
    Answer: Elves

13. What do you get when you cross an archer with a gift-wrapper?
    Ribbon Hood.

14. Who delivers the Christmas presents to dogs?
    Answer: Santa Paws

15. What do you get if you cross Father Christmas with a detective?
    Answer: Santa Clues

16. What's Santa's favorite sandwich?
    Answer: Peanut Butter & Jolly

17. How do fish decorate for Christmas?
    Answer: They hang reefs.

18. What kind of bird can write?
    Answer: A pen-guin

19. What's the best thing to put into a Christmas cake?
    Answer: Your teeth.

Christmas Riddles for Adults

1. I'm a plant seen at Christmas, which people hang above. And then they stand beneath me and kiss someone they love. What am I?
   Answer: Mistletoe

2. I'm a bank but I don't have any money. What am I?
   Answer: Snowbank

3. What did the kids' mother say after they were done opening presents?
   Answer: Oh! What a Christmess!

4. What laundry detergent do people in the North Pole use?
   Answer: Yule Tide

5. Did you hear about the cracker's Christmas party?
   Answer: It was a BANG!

6. What do you get if you cross mistletoe and a duck?
   Answer: A Christmas Quacker

7. Who gives presents to baby sharks?
   Answer: Santa Jaws

8. Where did Santa Claus go for vacation?
   Answer: Santa Cruz
   

9. What is the cleanest reindeer called?
   Answer: Comet

10. Why did Jimmy's grades drop after the holidays?
    Answer: Because everything was marked down!

11. What is green, white, and red all over?
    Answer: A sunburnt elf

12. How much did Santa pay for his sleigh?
    Answer: Nothing, it was on the house!

13. Why didn't the wig get any presents on Christmas?
    Answer: Because it was very knotty

14. What do you wait for all year long and it just ends up looking like a giant human's sock?
    Answer: Christmas stockings

15. Why did Santa get a ticket on Christmas Eve?
    Answer: He left his sled in a s(no)w parking zone.

16. What does one business person say to another business person on Christmas?
    Answer: "Season's meetings."

17. What do you drain your Christmas Brussels sprouts with?
    Answer: An advent colander

18. What do Santa's helpers do to work out their problems?
    Answer: They go to an elf-help group.
    

Hard Christmas Riddles

1. What did Santa need when he sprained his ankle?
   Answer: A candy cane

2. What do you call an old snowman?
   Answer: Water

3. 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

4. Usually during Christmas on doors I am found with evergreens, pine cones, and berries arranged in a round. What am I?
   Answer: A wreath

5. 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

6. The inns were full in this little town, so in a manger he was born. What is it?
   Answer: Bethlehem

7. All day I sit on a shelf, but come alive and move during the nights. I tell Santa who's been naughty and who's been nice. Who am I?
   Answer: The Elf on the Shelf
   

8. I'm a Christmas treat that can be made into many things. I can be a cake, a cookie or an edible little cottage with icing. What am I?
   Answer: Gingerbread

9. What's the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet?
   Answer: The Christmas alphabet has NOEL!

10. What's red and white, red and white, red and white?
    Answer: Santa Claus rolling down a hill.

11. What did Mrs. Claus say to Santa when she looked at the sky?
    Answer: "Looks like rain, dear."

12. What do you call a snowman in the summer?
    Answer: A puddle!

13. Which year would Christmas and New Years come in the same year?
    Answer: Every year.

14. What is it that you can catch easily but cannot throw, especially during December?
    Answer: A cold

15. Where do the reindeer go for Christmas dinner?
    Answer: To their aunt-ler's house.

16. What do you give an artistic dog for Christmas?
    Answer: Fetch-A-Sketch

17. Why was the computer so quiet on Christmas Eve?
    Answer: Because not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Christmas Tree Riddles

1. I get chopped, decorated, and on one end you'll see wings on top. What am I?
   Answer: A Christmas tree

2. What would an apple and a Christmas tree get if they had a baby?
   Answer: A pine-apple

3. Why was the Christmas tree so bad at knitting?
   Answer: He was always dropping his needles!

4. Once I'm chopped, they put a skirt on my bottom half and once I'm placed, they put ornaments on a my top half. What am I?
   Answer: A Christmas tree

5. What did the Christmas tree say to the ornament?
   Answer: "Aren't you tired of hanging around?"

6. I have needles all over me but cannot sew anything. What am I?
   Answer: A Christmas tree

7. I came into this world as cherry and mint. Everyone covers me with pretty clothes and sometimes light fireworks around me. What am I?
   Answer: A Christmas tree

8. Which winter sport do trees participate in?
   Answer: Al-pine skiing

9. How do Christmas trees keep their breath fresh?
   Answer: They suck on an orna-mint.

Christmas Song and Carol Riddles

1. What do fish sing at Christmas time?
   Answer: Christmas corals

2. What song do sheep in Mexico sing at Christmas?
   Answer: "Fleece Navidad!"

3. What is Frosty the Snowman's favorite song?
   "Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow"

4. What Christmas carol is a favorite of parents?
   Answer: "Silent Night"

5. Why do rappers like Christmas so much?
   Answer: Because of all the wrapping!

6. This is a Christmas carol that has no sound or music. What is it?
   Answer: "Silent Night"

7. Who is the lad who is a diminutive percussionist?
   Answer: "The Little Drummer Boy"

8. What are cup-shaped instruments fashioned of a whitish metallic element?
   Answer: "Silver Bells"
   

9. What is it called when you decorate the entryways?
   Answer: "Deck the Halls"

10. What two things are wanted in December?
    Answer: "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"

11. What song lyrics does Santa love to sing?
    Answer: Your beard-er watch out, you beard-er not cry.

12. What does a snake sing at Christmas?
    Answer: SSSssssssssssssilver Bells.

13. What's a farmer's favorite Christmas carol?
    Answer: I'm Dreaming of a Wheat Christmas

14. What song do skunks sing at Christmas?
    Answer: Jingle Smells

15. What Christmas carols do dogs like to sing?
    Answer: Deck the howls.

16. What are red and green and grow on the ocean floor?
    Answer: Christmas corals

Christmas Math Riddles

1. What did the cow get for Christmas?
   Answer: A COWculator

2. If Santa's five elves take five minutes to make five dolls, then how long do you think 100 elves will need to make 100 dolls?
   Answer: Five minutes

3. Buddy and Hermey were both born on Christmas Eve. When Buddy was 6 years old, Hermey was half his age. If Buddy turns 100 years old this Christmas Eve, how old is Hermey going to be?
   Answer: 97

4. At a holiday market, the total cost for a cup of hot cocoa and a cookie is $1.80. If a cup of hot cocoa costs one dollar more than a cookie, how much does a cup of hot cocoa cost?
   Answer: $1.40

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