Grow your knowledge with the help of the below easy and hard chess riddles with answers.
Chess Riddles With Answers For Kids And Students
1. Why can you not make chess pieces out of bread? Answer: It would be a stalemate
2. What cannot a queen do that every other piece can? Answer: A queen cannot capture a more valuable piece or deliver a discovered check.
3. The eight of us go forth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we? Answer: A pawn
4. In a riddle whose only answer is chess, what is the only word that is prohibited? Answer: Chess
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5. I am the weakest in chess, but the strongest in checkers. The hat that rests upon my head is of great value. What am I? Answer: The king
6. How do you know when your pawn is doing a good job? Answer: They get promoted.
7. How did the king lose his home? Answer: A horse took his castle.
8. A knight leaps over a tower and the tower vanishes. You did not imagine it and you are not hallucinating. Where could this have happened? Answer: A chessboard
9. Why wouldn’t the cowboy play chess? Answer: He didn’t want to lose his horse.
10. Why didn’t the other pieces come to the king and queen’s barbecue? Answer: Because there were too many forks and skewers.
11. Why did the chess players bring their crayons? Answer: In case there was a draw.
12. Why can’t you make chess pieces out of bread? Answer: Because it would be a stalemate.
13. When did kings, queens, knights, and bishops go to war? Answer: Chess Game
14. What kinds of men are always above board? Answer: chessmen
15. A horse jumps over a tower and the tower disappears. It’s not an illusion or a dream. So where could this happen? Answer: On a chessboard
16. All five sisters are busy. Ann is reading a book, Rose is cooking, Katy is playing chess, and Mary is doing the laundry. What is the fifth sister doing? Answer: She is playing chess with Katy.
17. I am a homograph for something used to measure, the weakest in chess but strongest in checkers. Upon my head is a hat of great value. What am I? Answer: A king
18. It is where kings, queens, knights, and bishops go to war together. Answer: Chess Game
19. There are 5 sisters in a room: Ann is reading a book, Margaret is cooking, Kate is playing chess, and Marie is doing the laundry. What is the fifth sister doing? Answer: Playing chess with Kate
20. Two men are playing chess. They play five games. Each man wins three games. How is this possible? Answer: The men were not playing with each other. It never said they were. They played chess with other people, and during the five games, each man won three of the games.
21. War fought with pieces on a board. Answer: chess
22. What did the chess player say to the waiter? Answer: Check, please
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