What Am I Riddles are fascinating and yet deceitful simple enigmas that are bound to delight kids and grownups alike. They all share the same descriptive structure. The riddles are written in the first person as if someone describing themselves using metaphors and wordplay. Every riddle begins or ends with a challenge to the players: “What Am I?”, as if positive that they can never be found, not even with all the clues they provide. Is this self-assuredness valid or can you solve all these tricky riddles?
What Am I Riddles
Dark with white markings, And smooth like a rock. Where learning occurs, I help convey thought. What am I?
Answer: Blackboard or chalkboard
You pick it, You peel the outside, You cook the inside, You eat the outside, And throw away the inside. What am I?
Answer: Corn
Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you see after the storm has fled. What am I?
Answer: I am a Rainbow.
You fill me up when I get low. On roads and highways, with me, you go. What am I?
Answer: Car
I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assasinated. What am I?
Answer: Mount Rushmore! Get it, "rock" group?
I'm found in socks, scarves, and mittens. I'm found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Answer: Yarn.
I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A Joke!
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, But my continued death brings wealth for all to want more. What am I?
Answer: Oil
I have wheels and a horn, and I love to go fast. I take you places, near or vast. What am I?
Answer: Car
I am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?
Answer: I am
A cloud is my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man. What am I?
Answer: The rain.
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat. What am I?
Answer: A kitten.
I come at the end of time and at the start of eternity. I come four times in every week, but only once in a thousand years. What am I?
Answer: The letter E.
I am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, of course. I am color orange. What am I?
Answer: Orange
Used for fishing, with line and hook, in survival situations, I am a useful book. What am I?
Answer: A fishing rod.
If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
Answer: A promise.
No legs have I to dance, No lungs have I to breathe, No life have I to live or die And yet I do all three. What am I?
Answer: I am Fire
The more I consume, the brighter I become. The brighter I become, the shorter my life. What am I?
Answer: A lightbulb
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown. What am I?
Answer: Time
A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
Answer: A Coconut
I come with many colors so beautiful and bright, I turn so many houses into a beautiful sight. What am I?
Answer: Christmas lights
I am under your face and outside your mind. What am I?
Answer: Skull
Almost everyone sees me without noticing me, For what is beyond is what he or she seeks. What am I?
Answer: A window
I make you weak at the worst of all times. I keep you safe, I keep you fine. I make your hands sweat, and your heart grow cold, I visit the weak, but seldom the bold. What am I?
Answer: Your fears
When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?
Answer: I am the horizon
I can flutter and take your breath away. I can take a beating but do not bruise. If I stopped you would be sure to lose. Every day I am with you. What am I?
Answer: Your heart
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change. What am I?
Answer: I am the pupil of an eye
I have a trunk, but I’m not a tree. I have doors, but I’m not a house. What am I?
Answer: Car
I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
Answer: The sun will come up ... Tomorrow
Kids really love me because I make things float. You can even use me to expand small things. What am I?
Answer: Helium
You heard me before, Yet you hear me again. Then I die, 'Til you call me again. What am I?
Answer: An Echo
I can be found on a human or beast all people should have one at least I can be any shape or any size and my history you'll despise What Am I?
Answer: A Scar
I am served at a table, In gatherings of two or four; Served small, white and round. You'll love some, And that's part of the fun. What am I?
Answer: Ping Pong Balls
I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I've traveled the universe to and fro. I've conquered the world, yet I've never been anywhere but home. Who am I?
Answer: I'm your imagination
Life after death it repeats itself, green to brown it is neither men nor women. what am I?
Answer: A tree.
I have fur, but I’m not a coat. I have claws, but I’m not a bird. I like to climb trees, but I’m not a child. I have nine lives, but I’m not a character in a video game. What am I?
Answer: A cat.
I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow? What am I?
Answer: A milk truck
I say everything I hear to others around. I'm not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I?
Answer: A microphone
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
Answer: An onion
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains
Answer: The word Dozens
I am large as a castle, yet lighter than air. 100 men and their horses cannot move me. What am I?
Answer: The castle's shadow
I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I?
Answer: A snake.
I’ve crowned victors’ heads since ancient Rome. Around Christmastime, I might be in your home. What am I?
Answer: A wreath
I come in darkness, but fill the mind with light. I bring enlightenment to some, while gripping others in the hand of fear. With me it can be a journey of inexplicable joy and sorrow. What I will show you will often be unreachable. Journey with me and what you see may haunt you. Journey with me and you may never want to return home. Journey with me and you will never know when it will end. What am I?
Answer: Your dreams
I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?
Answer: An Arrow
I herald the darkness which descends on all creatures; You will know my approach by moans and wracked features. I visit the hippo, hyena, and horse, But never go near snails and spiders, of course. I would circle the glove, leaping one to the other, Should all the world's people ever clasp hands together. What am I?
Answer: I am a Yawn
The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?
Answer: A zebra.
When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I?
Answer: A Light Switch
I am bright and shining and hanging in line. I can be a tool or a friend in your ascent. What am I?
Answer: A flashlight
I am a killer of trees but people need me. I can be blown away by a breeze and I have been here since ancient Greece. What am I?
Answer: Paper.
What Am I riddles are a sort of “forbidden word” game but in the shape of a riddle. It is a descriptive enigma with, traditionally, a single-word answer, be it an object, a letter, a name, or something else. Easy riddles of this sort will use descriptive words associated with the answer to make it more simple to make the connection. However, the funniest and more challenging ones, are the riddles that appeal to a different imaginary. One that seems completely unrelated or that sends the players in a different thinking direction, only to surprise them when the answer is revealed. Can you find any example among these What Am I riddles with answers?
Last Updated: Thursday, November 14, 2024
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