Ice is a fascinating subject for riddles and brain teasers. It can take many forms and shapes and can be molded, frozen, melted, and more. Here are 83 riddles all about ice to challenge your mind.
Riddles about ice
What am I riddles
1. I’m hard and cold, you can skate on me. What am I?
Answer: Ice
2. I’m wet when you touch me but dry when you use me. I crackle and pop but won’t burn. You can slide on me or put me in your drink. What am I?
Answer: Ice cubes
3. I’m clear like glass but I’m made of water. You can see right through me but I’m solid to touch. What am I?
Answer: Ice
4. I’m cold and refreshing on a hot summer day. You can add me to your drinks or suck on me to cool down. What am I?
Answer: Ice cube
5. I’m frozen water that melts back to liquid. I’m great for keeping things cold or sliding around for fun. What am I?
Answer: Ice
6. I’m the frozen form of a liquid. You can use me to chill your drinks or cool down on a hot day. What am I?
Answer: Ice
7. I’m cold, frozen and slide down mountains and through pipes. What am I?
Answer: Ice
8. I’m the slippery, frozen version of water. You can skate or hockey on me if I’m thick enough. What am I?
Answer: Ice
9. I’m the solid, frozen state of a liquid. You can put me in drinks to cool them down on a hot summer day. What am I?
Answer: Ice
10. I’m cold, hard and smooth. You can skate, fish or drive on me when conditions are right. What am I?
Answer: Ice
What makes ice riddles
11. I start as water, then get really cold, freeze over and become solid. What am I?
Answer: Ice
12. I’m created when heat is removed from water and the temperature drops below freezing. What am I?
Answer: Ice
13. I form when water is exposed to freezing temperatures and transforms from liquid to solid. What am I?
Answer: Ice
14. Liquid water becomes me when the temperature dips below 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. What am I?
Answer: Ice
15. I’m the solid form of water that forms when its molecules slow down and lock together in a crystalline structure. What am I?
Answer: Ice
16. I’m water that’s frozen solid when the kinetic energy of the molecules decreases due to a drop in temperature. What am I?
Answer: Ice
17. When water cools to its freezing point, its molecules bond and form me, the solid state of H2O. What am I?
Answer: Ice
18. I’m the solid phase of water that forms when its temperature hits 0° Celsius or 32° Fahrenheit. What am I?
Answer: Ice
19. I’m created when the heat energy is removed from liquid water and the molecules bind together in a hexagonal crystal lattice. What am I?
Answer: Ice
20. When water becomes so cold that kinetic energy stops the molecules from moving freely, I am formed. What am I?
Answer: Ice
Describe ice riddles
21. I’m the frozen version of a liquid. You can see right through me and I’m very cold to the touch. What am I?
Answer: Ice
22. I’m a transparent, frozen solid that melts back to a liquid when heat is applied. You can use me to chill drinks or go skating. What am I?
Answer: Ice
23. I’m the slippery, frozen form of water. I’m created when temperatures dip below freezing and liquid molecules bond together. What am I?
Answer: Ice
24. I’m cold, wet and frozen solid. You can use me in drinks or to cool things down. If enough of me builds up I can be dangerous. What am I?
Answer: Ice
25. I’m hard, cold and see-through. You can skate on me if I’m thick enough or put me in lemonade on a hot day. What am I?
Answer: Ice
26. I’m a cold, transparent solid that melts into a refreshing liquid. Hockey players skate quickly across me. What am I?
Answer: Ice
27. I’m the frozen state of water. You can see right through me and I make drinks cold. Too much of me on roads can cause accidents. What am I?
Answer: Ice
28. I’m slippery, frozen H2O. I’m great in soda and if thick enough you can ice skate on me. What am I?
Answer: Ice
29. I’m a see-through frozen solid that melts back to a liquid at warmer temperatures. I’m very slick underfoot when on sidewalks. What am I?
Answer: Ice
30. I’m the solid, frozen form of water. I’m transparent but strong enough to hold weight if thick enough. What am I?
Answer: Ice
Funny ice riddles
31. What do you call a sad strawberry?
Answer: A blueberry!
32. What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
Answer: Snowflakes!
33. Why was the snowman looking through the carrots?
Answer: He was picking his nose!
34. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite!
35. What did the policeman say to his belly button?
Answer: You’re under a vest!
36. What do you call a nervous javelin thrower?
Answer: Shakespeare!
37. What kind of cycles can’t stand up by themselves?
Answer: Two tired cycles!
38. Which U.S. state is famous for its extra small soft drinks?
Answer: Minnesota!
39. Did you hear the joke about the wandering nun?
Answer: She was a roamin’ Catholic!
40. Why do bicycles fall over?
Answer: Because they’re two-tired!
Tricky ice riddles
41. What can you break without ever picking it up?
Answer: A promise
42. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map
43. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
44. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
Answer: Stairs
45. You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter “e”
46. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp
47. The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole
48. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name
49. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise
50. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
Ice puns
51. What do you call a sad strawberry? A blueberry!
52. I was going to tell a joke about ice…but it slipped my mind.
53. Why don’t eggs tell each other jokes? They’d crack each other up!
54. I tried to catch some fog earlier. I mist.
55. Don’t trust atoms. They make up everything!
56. Want to hear a pizza joke? Nevermind, it’s too cheesy.
57. What do you call a fake noodle? An Impasta!
58. I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
59. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear!
60. Why did the invisible man turn down the job offer? He couldn’t see himself doing it!
Science ice riddles
61. I’m the change of state from liquid to solid that occurs when water reaches 0°C. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
62. I’m the solid form of water with a crystalline structure formed when kinetic energy is lowered enough for hydrogen bonds to form. What am I?
Answer: Ice
63. I’m the process by which atoms in a liquid slow down and form rigid bonds, transitioning the liquid to a solid. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
64. When a liquid becomes so cold that molecular vibrations come to a stop, I occur allowing molecules to align in a rigid structure. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
65. I’m the thermodynamic process by which a liquid becomes a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
66. When a liquid is chilled below its freezing point, molecules lose mobility and bond together in a crystalline structure via me. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
67. I’m the phase transition process from liquid to crystalline solid that occurs with sufficient lowering of temperature. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
68. When a liquid becomes a solid, reaching maximal crystal growth, the process is known as me. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
69. I’m the scientific term for the process of a liquid turning into a solid when its temperature drops below its freezing point. What am I?
Answer: Freezing
70. When kinetic energy is lowered enough in a liquid for hydrogen bonding to take place, this process occurs forming ice. What is it?
Answer: Freezing
What melts ice riddles
71. I’m the process that changes ice from solid back into liquid water. Adding me will melt ice. What am I?
Answer: Heat or warmth
72. Ice turns into liquid water when the molecular bonds break apart due to an increase in this. What is it?
Answer: Temperature/heat
73. Frozen water will quickly transition from a solid to liquid with the addition of this form of energy. What is it?
Answer: Heat
74. Solid ice crystals weaken and loosen when the kinetic energy of water molecules is raised by adding this. What is it?
Answer: Heat/thermal energy
75. Ice melts when heat causes its molecular structure to break down into a liquid. What is this process called?
Answer: Melting
76. I’m the process by which a solid becomes a liquid through the addition of energy without boiling. Applying me to ice turns it into water. What am I?
Answer: Melting
77. When a solid absorbs enough heat energy to overcome intermolecular forces and form a liquid, this occurs. What is it?
Answer: Melting
78. The state change from solid to liquid due to added energy weakening intermolecular bonds is called this. What is it?
Answer: Melting
79. I’m the physical process in which a solid transitions to a liquid state by absorbing thermal energy. What am I?
Answer: Melting
80. When ice absorbs enough thermal energy to break hydrogen bonds, its molecules gain mobility, transitioning it from solid to liquid by this process. What is it?
Answer: Melting
Conclusion
Ice makes for interesting riddles and brain teasers because of its unique properties and the many forms it can take. It can be described, made into wacky puns, and worked into funny jokes. The science behind ice and freezing is also intriguing. I hope you enjoyed this collection of 83 ice riddles with a variety of question types and topics to engage the mind. Let me know which were your favorites!
