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
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 am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, ofcourse. I am color orange. What am I?
Answer: I am an Orange!!
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
My first is in fish but not in snail, My second is in rabbit but not in tail. My third is in up but not in down, My fourth is in tiara but not in crown. My fifth is in tree you plainly see, My whole a food for you and me. What am I?
Answer: I am a fruit
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
Who bought it doesn't need it. Who needs it didn't buy it. Who ever sees it makes them cry. What on earth am I?
Answer: A coffin
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 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?
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 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
I'm so fast you can't see me, Though everyone sees straight through me, I don't stop until the day you die. What am I?
Answer: A blink of an eye
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
Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after the storm has fled.What am I?
Answer: I am a Rainbow
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
With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I?
Answer: I'm a Stapler
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
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 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
I have no voice and yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride or royalty. I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more. What am I?
Answer: A Book
Life after death it repeats itself, green to brown it is neither men nor women. what am I?
Answer: A tree.
I am that which is hunted, and this panes me. Do you dig, Stone? What am I?
Answer: Quarry
I'm not really more than holes tied to more holes; I'm strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole. What am I?
Answer: A steel chain
Dark with white markings, And smooth like a rock. Where learning occurs, I help convey thought. What am I?
Answer: Blackboard or chalkboard
Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, we always will meet. Try as you might, to guess my name, I promise you'll know, when you I do claim. Who am I?
Answer: Death
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'm as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?
Answer: The Wind
its is the beginning of existence and the end of time, its the beginning of everything and the end of space, what am i?
Answer: the letter E
I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I?
Answer: A snake
You heard me before, Yet you hear me again. Then I die, 'Til you call me again. What am I?
Answer: An Echo
The higher I climb, the hotter I engage, I can not escape my crystal cage. What am I?
Answer: Mercury in a thermometer
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
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 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.
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
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
I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
Answer: A Piano
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 am the shortest complete sentence in the English language. What am I?
Answer: I am
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
For some I go fast for others I'm slow. To most people, I'm an obsession relying on me is a well practiced lesson. What am I?
Answer: Time
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. Everyday I am with you. What am I?
Answer: Your heart
Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin. Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?
Answer: I am Water
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 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 am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I?
Answer: The word Dozens
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 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 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
Almost everyone sees me without noticing me, For what is beyond is what he or she seeks. What am I?
Answer: A window
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: Friday, April 19, 2024
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