Roller coasters are thrilling amusement park rides that have captured the imagination of people for over a century. Their twists, turns, climbs, and drops provide an exhilarating experience. Roller coasters also inspire some fun and challenging riddles. Here are 63 roller coaster riddles with answers to test your puzzle-solving skills.
Riddles about Roller Coaster Parts
These riddles focus on the various components that make up a roller coaster.
1. I’m the clackety part of the track that makes noise when the train goes over me. What am I?
Answer: The lift hill chain.
2. I’m the bottom part of the track that supports the weight of the roller coaster train. What am I?
Answer: The rail.
3. I’m the car you sit in that races along the roller coaster track. What am I?
Answer: The roller coaster car or train.
4. I’m the over-the-shoulder restraint that keeps you locked in your seat. What am I?
Answer: The lap bar.
5. I’m the tightening part that secures the lap bar over your body. What am I?
Answer: The ratchet mechanism.
6. I’m the buzzing sound you hear as the roller coaster climbs up the lift hill. What am I?
Answer: The lift hill motor.
7. I’m the curvy, zig-zaggy part of the track with lots of banking. What am I?
Answer: The helix.
8. I’m the section at the bottom of a drop where gravity accelerates you to maximum speed. What am I?
Answer: The acceleration zone.
9. I’m the bumpy part of the track that creates a rattling sensation. What am I?
Answer: The brakes.
10. I’m the course the roller coaster train follows from start to finish. What am I?
Answer: The track layout.
Riddles about Roller Coaster Sensations
These riddles describe the physical sensations you feel while riding a roller coaster.
11. I’m the feeling you get when the roller coaster goes down a steep drop. What am I?
Answer: Weightlessness.
12. I’m the tingling, butterfly feeling you get in your stomach on roller coasters. What am I?
Answer: The stomach drop.
13. I’m the force that pushes you back into your seat on roller coaster launches and tops of hills. What am I?
Answer: G-forces.
14. I’m the sensation that makes your legs feel weak after riding roller coasters all day. What am I?
Answer: Jelly legs.
15. I’m the feeling of breeze in your face as you speed along the roller coaster track. What am I?
Answer: Airtime.
16. I’m the side-to-side swaying feeling you get on airtime hills. What am I?
Answer: Lateral g-forces.
17. I’m the feeling of your body being pressed into the sides of the train on tightly banked turns. What am I?
Answer: Positive g-forces.
18. I’m the negative feeling you get when cresting hills upside down. What am I?
Answer: Negative g-forces.
19. I’m the out of control feeling on twisty roller coasters. What am I?
Answer: Disorientation.
20. I’m the feeling of relief you get when a terrifying roller coaster ride ends. What am I?
Answer: Release.
Riddles about Roller Coaster Speed and Motion
Test your knowledge of physics with these riddles about how roller coasters move.
21. The faster I go on a roller coaster, the harder I push against my restraints. What am I?
Answer: Centripetal force.
22. I’m the force that counteracts gravity on roller coaster hills and inversions. What am I?
Answer: Centrifugal force.
23. The roller coaster uses me to convert potential energy to kinetic energy. What am I?
Answer: Gravity.
24. I’m the side-to-side twisting movement of roller coaster cars. What am I?
Answer: Roll.
25. I’m the back and forth tilting motion on some roller coaster tracks. What am I?
Answer: Pitch.
26. I’m the feeling you get when a roller coaster rapidly changes direction. What am I?
Answer: Lateral acceleration.
27. I’m the measurement of how fast a roller coaster accelerates. What am I?
Answer: G-forces.
28. I’m the click-clack sound of a roller coaster climbing the lift hill. What am I?
Answer: Ascending chain lift noise.
29. I’m the measurement of the steepest drop on a roller coaster. What am I?
Answer: The angle of descent.
30. I’m the whooshing sound as cars race through roller coaster inversions. What am I?
Answer: Rushing wind noise.
Riddles about Roller Coaster Track Shapes
These riddles describe the unusual track configurations on modern roller coasters.
31. I’m a heart-shaped roller coaster element. What am I?
Answer: A heartline roll.
32. I look like half of a corkscrew. What am I?
Answer: A barrel roll.
33. I’m a Superman-shaped inversion. What am I?
Answer: A pretzel loop.
34. I’m a back-to-back pair of inline twists. What am I?
Answer: A double corkscrew.
35. I’m a twisted figure-8 element. What am I?
Answer: A cobra roll.
36. I’m a 180-degree roll to one side. What am I?
Answer: An outside or overbanked turn.
37. I’m an upward twisting element that wraps around the track. What am I?
Answer: A wing-over.
38. I’m an inversion that rolls in slow motion. What am I?
Answer: A slow-roll.
39. I’m a twisting element like a flattened corkscrew. What am I?
Answer: An Immelmann loop.
40. I’m a bowtie-shaped vertical loop. What am I?
Answer: A teardrop loop.
Riddles about Roller Coaster Heights
Test your knowledge of roller coaster size and height with these riddles.
41. I’m over 400 feet tall and once was the tallest roller coaster in the world. What am I?
Answer: Kingda Ka.
42. I’m a giga coaster over 300 feet tall located in North Carolina. What am I?
Answer: Fury 325.
43. I’m a 329 foot tall wooden coaster in Ohio. What am I?
Answer: The Beast.
44. I’m a 465 foot tall roller coaster that crosses over a giant lake. What am I?
Answer: Steel Dragon 2000.
45. I’m a wooden roller coaster built over a cliff with multiple towering drops. What am I?
Answer: Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
46. I’m a record-breaking wooden coaster with a 228 foot first drop. What am I?
Answer: El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure.
47. I’m a 71-foot tall wooden roller coaster known for its rough ride. What am I?
Answer: The Rattler at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.
48. I’m a hypercoaster with a 300-foot tall first hill. What am I?
Answer: Nitro at Six Flags Great Adventure.
49. I’m a 115-foot tall looping coaster once the tallest in the world. What am I?
Answer: Shockwave at Six Flags Over Texas.
50. I’m a wooden coaster with a 197-foot double-down drop. What am I?
Answer: Gwazi at Busch Gardens Tampa.
Riddles about Roller Coaster Records
See if you can identify these record-holding roller coasters.
51. I’m the world’s longest roller coaster at over 8,000 feet long. What am I?
Answer: The Ultimate at Lightwater Valley.
52. I’m the world’s oldest operating roller coaster built in 1902. What am I?
Answer: Leap-The-Dips at Lakemont Park.
53. I’m the world’s tallest full circuit roller coaster with a 418 foot drop. What am I?
Answer: Steel Dragon 2000 at Nagashima Spa Land.
54. I’m the world’s oldest wooden roller coaster dating back to 1917. What am I?
Answer: Leap-the-Dips at Lakemont Park.
55. I’m the world’s steepest roller coaster with a 121-degree drop. What am I?
Answer: Steel Hawg at Indiana Beach.
56. I’m the world’s fastest roller coaster accelerating to 149 mph. What am I?
Answer: Formula Rossa at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi.
57. I’m the world’s tallest chain-driven roller coaster rising 456 feet. What am I?
Answer: Superman: Escape from Krypton at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
58. I’m the world’s first launched strata coaster, accelerating to 100 mph. What am I?
Answer: Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point.
59. I’m the world’s first LIM launched roller coaster designed by Intamin. What am I?
Answer: Flight of Fear at Kings Island and Kings Dominion.
60. I’m the world’s first giga coaster towering over 300 feet. What am I?
Answer: Millennium Force at Cedar Point.
Conclusion
How did you do with these roller coaster riddles? Roller coasters are marvels of engineering and physics. Their clever designs create incredible forces and sensations for brave riders. With their speed, heights, twists and turns, roller coasters make for challenging and fun riddles. Next time you’re waiting in line for your favorite roller coaster, see if your friends can guess these riddle answers!
