50+ Thanksgiving Riddles With Answers
Thanksgiving is a good excuse to pull out a few silly games while everyone is together. Riddles are especially easy because you can ask them around the dinner table, use them at the kids table, or pull them out while everyone is waiting for dinner.
I put together 55 Thanksgiving riddles with answers below. There are easy ones for kids, turkey riddles, Thanksgiving food riddles, and plenty of corny Thanksgiving jokes that adults can have fun guessing too.
Easy Thanksgiving Riddles for Kids
Let’s start with some of the easier ones. These are good for younger kids or for getting everyone warmed up before moving on to the trickier riddles.
1. I’m big and orange and you might turn me into a pie. What am I?
Answer: A pumpkin
2. I have feathers, two legs, and I say gobble. What am I?
Answer: A turkey
3. I’m red, small, and tart, and you might find me in a sauce at Thanksgiving dinner. What am I?
Answer: A cranberry
4. I’m creamy, fluffy, and usually covered in gravy. What am I?
Answer: Mashed potatoes
5. I’m sweet, orange, and sometimes covered with marshmallows. What am I?
Answer: Sweet potato casserole
6. I’m baked in a crust, filled with pumpkin, and usually eaten for dessert. What am I?
Answer: Pumpkin pie
7. You pull me apart with another person and make a wish. What am I?
Answer: A wishbone
8. I’m poured over turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. What am I?
Answer: Gravy
9. I’m made with bread, herbs, and seasonings and served next to the turkey. What am I?
Answer: Stuffing
10. I happen on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States. What am I?
Answer: Thanksgiving
11. I’m a big meal shared with family and friends in November. What am I?
Answer: Thanksgiving dinner
12. I’m a small piece of bread that you might butter at Thanksgiving dinner. What am I?
Answer: A dinner roll
13. I’m something people often say they are on Thanksgiving. What am I?
Answer: Thankful
14. I’m a dessert made with a nut that shares my name. What am I?
Answer: Pecan pie
15. I’m a season filled with falling leaves, pumpkins, and Thanksgiving. What am I?
Answer: Fall
Funny Thanksgiving Riddles
These get a little sillier. Try asking the question without showing anyone the answer and see how long it takes someone to figure it out.
16. Why did the turkey cross the road?
Answer: To prove he wasn’t chicken!
17. What sound does a turkey’s phone make?
Answer: Wing! Wing!
18. Why didn’t the turkey eat any dessert?
Answer: Because he was already stuffed!
19. What do you call a turkey the day after Thanksgiving?
Answer: Lucky!
20. Why did the cranberries turn red?
Answer: Because they saw the turkey dressing!
21. What kind of key can’t open a door?
Answer: A turkey!
22. What do you call a running turkey?
Answer: Fast food!
23. Why was the Thanksgiving soup so expensive?
Answer: It had 24 carrots!
24. What do you get when you cross a turkey with a ghost?
Answer: A poultry geist!
25. Why did the turkey join the band?
Answer: Because it had drumsticks!
26. What kind of music did the Pilgrims listen to?
Answer: Plymouth Rock!
27. What do you call a turkey that tells jokes?
Answer: A comedi hen!
28. Why did the pumpkin sit by itself?
Answer: It needed some space to squash its feelings!
29. Why did the mashed potatoes get invited to Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: Because they were a peeling!
30. What did the turkey say before Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: I’m stuffed!
Thanksgiving Turkey Riddles
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a whole section about turkeys.
31. I have wings but I’m not an airplane. I have feathers but I’m not a pillow. What am I?
Answer: A turkey
32. I have a wattle but I’m not a baby. I gobble but I don’t eat everything in sight. What am I?
Answer: A turkey
33. What part of a turkey has the most feathers?
Answer: The outside
34. What do turkeys use to clean themselves?
Answer: Feather dusters
35. What do you call a turkey with no feathers?
Answer: Thanksgiving dinner
36. If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
Answer: Pilgrims
37. What always comes at the end of Thanksgiving?
Answer: The letter G
38. What has a neck but no head and is found on the Thanksgiving table?
Answer: A bottle
39. Why was the turkey good at playing the drums?
Answer: Because it already had drumsticks
40. What did the turkey say to the computer?
Answer: Google, Google!
Printable Thanksgiving Games for the Whole Family
If everyone is enjoying the riddles and you want more games ready for Thanksgiving, you can make things easy on yourself and have a few already printed before everyone arrives.
My Thanksgiving Family Games Bundle includes 20 printable Thanksgiving games and activities for kids, adults, and the whole family. You can put a few at the kids table, play them while everyone waits for dinner, or pull them out after everyone is finished eating.
Everything is already made for you, so you can print the games you want and have them ready to go before Thanksgiving gets busy.
GET THE THANKSGIVING FAMILY GAMES BUNDLEYour bundle also includes its own 10 question Thanksgiving Riddles game with an answer key.
Thanksgiving Food Riddles
Now let’s see if everyone can figure out what’s on the Thanksgiving table from the clues.
41. I’m green, long, and sometimes baked in a casserole with crispy onions on top. What am I?
Answer: Green beans
42. I’m small, red, and tart, but cooking me with sugar makes me much sweeter. What am I?
Answer: Cranberries
43. I’m orange on the inside, grow underground, and sometimes get topped with marshmallows. What am I?
Answer: A sweet potato
44. I’m round, orange, and grow on a vine. You can carve me or bake me into a pie. What am I?
Answer: A pumpkin
45. I’m brown on top, soft inside, and you might use me to soak up extra gravy. What am I?
Answer: A dinner roll
46. I’m smooth, brown, and usually made from the juices left after cooking the turkey. What am I?
Answer: Gravy
47. I’m crunchy, nutty, sweet, and baked inside a pie crust. What am I?
Answer: Pecan pie
48. I start out as bread but end up as one of Thanksgiving’s most popular side dishes. What am I?
Answer: Stuffing
49. I’m usually white and fluffy, but Thanksgiving gravy can turn me brown. What am I?
Answer: Mashed potatoes
50. I’m orange, creamy, spiced, and baked inside a crust. What am I?
Answer: Pumpkin pie
A Few Trickier Thanksgiving Riddles
Save these for the end and see if the adults can figure them out before the kids do.
51. What can never be eaten for Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: Thanksgiving breakfast or lunch
52. What is always in the middle of Thanksgiving?
Answer: The letter S
53. If a turkey has 10 feathers and loses three, how many does it have left?
Answer: Seven
54. What has ears but can’t hear and might be served at Thanksgiving?
Answer: Corn
55. What Thanksgiving food can you make without cooking anything at all?
Answer: A sandwich made with Thanksgiving leftovers
How to Use These Thanksgiving Riddles
You don’t have to turn the riddles into a big organized game. Pull this post up on your phone and have one person read them while everyone else tries to guess the answers.
For a bigger group, divide everyone into teams and give one point for each correct answer. You can start with the easy Thanksgiving riddles and work your way up to the harder ones.
They’re also easy to use at the kids table. Write a few riddles on slips of paper, put them in a bowl, and let the kids take turns choosing one for everyone to solve.
