1000 Riddles for Clever Kids Mind-Bending Brain Teasers, Puzzles

Packed into 164 paperback pages, Shahriyar Hussain's collection stacks up 1,000 brain teasers and trick questions, and despite "Kids" in the title, the publisher's own age range points older - 12 to 18 - so this reads more as a family or teen riddle book than one for the youngest puzzle fans. The pitch behind it is explicit: riddles as a deliberate counterweight to passive scrolling, giving a household something to do together that exercises lateral thinking instead of just filling time.

With a volume this large, it's built for grazing rather than a single sitting - a few at dinner, a few in the car, however a family wants to work through a thousand of them. The format leans toward shared solving rather than solo reading, which makes it as much a prompt for conversation and mild sibling competition as it is a standalone puzzle book. For a household trying to trade some screen time for something that still holds a teenager's attention, a thousand riddles is a lot of ammunition.