For thousands of years, there have been riddles that have made generations of adults and children think and laugh. The memory of who invented them has been lost, and today they are a treasure of our culture, which is constantly growing because imaginative people are always adding to it.
Read these riddles carefully and rack your brains to see if you get them right. But the pleasure of riddles doesn’t end there. They’re meant to be passed around, in the playground, at home, or on the street. Have fun puzzling your friends, siblings, parents, and grandparents with them. And who knows, maybe you'll come up with a few more.

Luísa Ducla Soares is one of the most important Portuguese writers of children’s and young adult literature, in prose and poetry, and has published 190 works, some of which have won awards and been translated. Humor, combined with fantasy and nonsense, is one of the author’s hallmarks.
She took part in projects to publicize and encourage culture in schools and libraries, as well as producing various selective publications of national and international children’s literature.

Carolina Branco was born in Macau, finished high school in the USA, and now lives in London. But where she feels at home is in Portugal. She is an illustrator and designer. In 2023, she released her first book, Um dia bom.