Mermaid Riddles: 28 Splashy Riddles with Answers

My top half looks like a girl, but instead of legs I have a long, shimmering fish tail. I live under the sea. What am I?

I’m just like a mermaid, with a fishy tail and a home under the waves, but I’m a boy. What am I?

I used to be the home of a sea creature, but now I’m empty and lying on the sand. Hold me to your ear and you might “hear” the ocean. What am I?

I grow slowly inside an oyster. I’m round, smooth and shiny, and people string me into necklaces. What am I?

I have five arms and no bones, and if I lose an arm I can grow a new one. My name says I’m a fish, but I’m not. What am I?

I’m a little fish with a head shaped like a horse’s and a curly tail that grabs onto seaweed. In my family, the dad carries the babies. What am I?

In old stories, mermaids sit on rocks with a mirror in one hand and me in the other, untangling their long hair. What am I?

I’m a colorful underwater city, built very slowly by tiny animals. Clownfish, turtles and lots of other sea creatures live in me. What am I?

I’m a mermaid’s playful friend. I click and whistle to talk, I jump out of the waves, and I breathe air through a hole on top of my head. What am I?

How do mermaids call their friends?

Where do mermaids go to watch movies?

In 1493, Christopher Columbus wrote that he saw three mermaids in the Caribbean, and that they were not as pretty as they look in paintings. What slow, gentle animal had he probably seen?

I’m a small bronze statue sitting on a rock in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m based on a fairy tale by a famous Danish writer. What am I?

In Greek myths, we sang so beautifully that sailors steered their ships onto the rocks to get closer. What were we called?

In stories from Scotland and Ireland, I’m a seal in the sea, but when I come ashore I take off my sealskin and look like a person. What am I?

I’m a spear with three sharp points, and the king of the sea carries me wherever he goes. What am I?

Walking on the beach, you find a little black leathery pouch with curly strings at each corner. People call it a “mermaid’s purse”. What is it really?

I started out as a broken bottle. Years of waves and sand rubbed my sharp edges smooth and made me frosty, and now beachcombers love finding me. What am I?

A mermaid would need us to breathe underwater. Fish have us on each side of their head, and we pull oxygen out of the water. What are we?

In a 1989 animated movie, I’m a red-haired mermaid who trades my voice to a sea witch so I can have legs and walk on land. Who am I?

A fish has me, a map has me, a piano has me, and a mermaid’s tail is covered in me. What am I?

I have a bed that no one sleeps in and waves that never say hello. I’m salty, but no one ever added salt to me. What am I?

My name says I’m a fish, but I have no brain, no heart and no bones, and I can sting. What am I?

I come in and go out on the beach, usually twice a day, and the moon pulls on me. Mermaids would always know when I’m high. What am I?

A mermaid finds 24 pearls. She gives half to her sister, then gives a third of what’s left to a crab. How many pearls does she keep?

Where does a mermaid keep her savings?

If you could drop Mount Everest into the deepest part of the ocean, would its peak poke out above the waves?

Two mermaids and two mermen sit on a rock. Each one of them has exactly one tail and two arms. A seagull lands among them. How many arms and tails are on the rock now, counting wings as arms?