Raccoon Riddles: 30 Masked and Clever Riddles with Answers

I wear a black mask, my bushy tail has stripes, and I go out at night to look for food with my nimble little paws. What am I?

Across my eyes is a band of black fur that looks like something you’d wear with a Halloween costume. What is it?

I’m a baby raccoon. My name is the same as a baby fox’s, and it’s also a word for a set of things you build. What am I called?

I spend the day curled up asleep in my den. When do I wake up and go looking for food?

My tail is fluffy, with dark bands that go all the way around it, one after another. What do you call those bands?

My front paws have five long fingers each, and my tracks in the mud look like tiny prints of these. What are they?

City raccoons know that on garbage night, dinner might be waiting in one of these, if they can just get the lid off. What is it?

Out in the woods, I like to sleep high up, in a cozy hole inside the trunk of one of these. What is it?

I can run straight up a tree trunk, because each of my toes has one of these sharp, curved tips that grip the bark. What are they?

Why does a raccoon get invited to every costume party?

Raccoons often dip their food in water and rub it with their paws before eating it. It looks like they’re doing which chore?

Scientists call me Procyon lotor. The second word is Latin, and it describes the chore I seem to do with my food. What does “lotor” mean?

I eat fruit, nuts and corn, but also frogs, fish, crayfish, bugs and eggs. What’s the word for an animal that eats both plants and meat?

My eyes are good in the dark, but my best sense is the one in my front paws. A big part of my brain works just on it. Which sense is it?

People online gave me a silly nickname: I dig in garbage, and my black-and-white face looks a bit like a famous bamboo-eating bear’s. What is it?

A mother raccoon has the same name as a mother pig. What is she called?

I don’t truly hibernate. On the coldest winter nights I stay snug in my den, sometimes for days, living off something I built up by eating a lot in fall. What is it?

Raccoons now live wild in Germany and Japan, but people brought them there. On which continent did raccoons first live?

Most animals come down a tree tail first. I can climb down headfirst, because I can turn these around so they point backward. What are they?

In which season are most raccoon kits born?

I’m one of the raccoon’s real cousins. I have a long, wiggly snout, a ringed tail that I often hold straight up, and I live from the southwest US down to South America. What am I?

I have a masked face and a ringed tail, so people once thought I was a raccoon’s cousin. I’m not: I’m in a family all my own. I live in the mountain forests of Asia and eat mostly bamboo. What am I?

A newborn kit can’t see at all. About how old is it when its eyes open: 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 months?

Some athletes smear black paint under their eyes on sunny days. Scientists think a raccoon’s dark mask might help in the same way. What might it do?

Scientists put a marshmallow floating in a tube of water, too low for raccoons to reach. Some raccoons dropped stones in to raise the water. The test is named after an old fable about a thirsty bird that did the same. Which bird?

A mother raccoon has 4 kits. Each kit has 4 paws, and each paw has 5 fingers or toes. How many fingers and toes do the kits have altogether?

My front paws can open jars, latches and doorknobs, but they’re missing one thing your hand has that lets you grip a pencil. What is it?

This big Canadian city has so many clever raccoons that people jokingly call it the raccoon capital of the world. Which city is it?

I’m not a strong digger, so in the countryside I sometimes move into an empty burrow dug by a different animal, one that’s also called a groundhog. Which animal is it?

Spell the word RACCOON. Which two letters show up twice in a row?