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
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
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
A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
Answer: A Minotaur
I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?
Answer: A Key
I can be found where anything cannot; dead men eat me all the time, but if a living man eats me, he'll die. What am I?
Answer: I am nothing
A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains
Answer: The word Dozens
I'm as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?
Answer: The Wind
I can help you when you’re lost and clueless. I am not human, but I often lead you. What am I?
Answer: Map
I can honk without using a horn. What am I?
Answer: A goose.
In spring I am gay in handsome array; in summer more clothing I wear; when colder it grows I fling off my clothes; and in winter quite naked appear. What am I?
Answer: A Tree
I have two arms, but fingers none. I have two feet, but cannot run. I carry well, but I have found I carry best with my feet OFF the ground. What am I?
Answer: A Wheelbarrow
I am the creator, through thick and thin, My time is sunset then I begin. Worlds of men and beasts I make, to me these things are not fake. But Over and over I will kill , I am the tirent and creator but not at will. What am I?
Answer: A sleeping dreamer
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
When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I?
Answer: A Light Switch
I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow? What am I?
Answer: A milk truck
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 can be created without a match, but I need some friction to catch. What am I?
Answer: Fire
I can be created by humans, but they cannot control me. I suck on wood, paper and flesh alike. I can be more of a hindrance than help. To my creators, I seem to be everywhere at once. What am I?
Answer: A baby
I am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, of course. I am color orange. What am I?
Answer: Orange
Almost everyone sees me without noticing me, For what is beyond is what he or she seeks. What am I?
Answer: A window
I have four wings, but cannot fly, I never laugh and never cry; On the same spot I'm always found, toiling away with little sound. What am I?
Answer: A Windmill
I'm a wanderer among the stars, canvas for myths, gods, and wars. What am I?
Answer: Planet
I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A Joke!
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
You fill me up when I get low. On roads and highways, with me, you go. What am I?
Answer: Car
You use your hand to whack me off, the bigger I am, the louder I make people scream. What am I?
Answer: Spider
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
Answer: An onion
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’m in the sky, but I can also be found in a book. I can help you find your way if you look. What am I?
Answer: Compass
I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole
Pronounced as one letter, But look and you'll see, That really I'm written with three. I'm read from both ends, The same either way. What am I?
Answer: I am an eye, or an ewe
I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
Answer: Your fingernails
I am an animal named after the animal that I eat. What am I?
Answer: An anteater.
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Answer: A shadow
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 come in a lot of different sizes. Sometimes, I drip a little. If you blow me, it feels really good. What am I?
Answer: A nose.
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
I catch fire easily but I protect cars in the cold. You can use me as a fuel and yet I am every distiller’s goal. What am I?
Answer: Ethanol
I can trap many different things and colors, Ever changing, not boring. Look closely and you may find yourself also caught in my trap. What am I?
Answer: A mirror, or a pool of water
I have an eye but cannot see. I am stronger and faster then any man alive but have no limbs. What am I?
Answer: I'm a hurricane
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
From outer space I might hail, in stories, I'm often quite the tale. What am I?
Answer: Alien
I warm you on cold nights, I’m made of wood or stone, but I’m not a home. What am I?
Answer: Shelter
The alphabet goes from A to Z but I go Z to A. What am I?
Answer: A zebra.
I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?
Answer: I'm a Sponge
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 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.
You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year. When the last one is gone, your life disappears. What am I?
Answer: Your birthday
My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?
Answer: A violin
I come with many colors so beautiful and bright, I turn so many houses into a beautiful sight. What am I?
Answer: Christmas lights
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: Monday, January 13, 2025
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