What Am I Riddles

Riddle: I can have a belt, but I’m not wearing pants. I work hard, so you can prance. What am I?

Answer: Car’s Engine

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I can help you when you’re lost and clueless. I am not human, but I often lead you. What am I?

Answer: Map

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I can honk without using a horn. What am I?

Answer: A goose.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 67%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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.

Rating: 50%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I come with many colors so beautiful and bright, I turn so many houses into a beautiful sight. What am I?

Answer: Christmas lights

Rating: 100%

Riddle: If a man carried my burden he would break his back. I am not big but leave silver in my tracks. What am I?

Answer: A snail

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me wherever I go. What am I

Answer: A cloud.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I'm as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?

Answer: The Wind

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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 claim. What am I?

Answer: Death

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I have no legs or arms but I still eat with a fork everyday, What am I?

Answer: A snake.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I have wheels and a horn, and I love to go fast. I take you places, near or vast. What am I?

Answer: Car

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The more I consume, the brighter I become. The brighter I become, the shorter my life. What am I?

Answer: A lightbulb

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I'm found in socks, scarves, and mittens. I'm found in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?

Answer: Yarn.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 67%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I move from place to place, a friend to those who need a space. What am I?

Answer: The Room of Requirement

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I row with four paddles but never leave home. What am I?

Answer: A turtle.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?

Answer: A bat.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I’ve crowned victors’ heads since ancient Rome. Around Christmastime, I might be in your home. What am I?

Answer: A wreath

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Kids really love me because I make things float. You can even use me to expand small things. What am I?

Answer: Helium

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Life after death it repeats itself, green to brown it is neither men nor women. what am I?

Answer: A tree.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: I am under your face and outside your mind. What am I?

Answer: Skull

Rating: 67%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A word I know, six letters it contains. Subtract just one and twelve remains

Answer: The word Dozens

Rating: 75%

Riddle: Ayer estuve, hoy estuve, pero mañana no estaré. ¿Quién soy?

Answer: La letra Y

Rating: 67%

Riddle: Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change. What am I?

Answer: I am the pupil of an eye

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: From outer space I might hail, in stories, I'm often quite the tale. What am I?

Answer: Alien

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Round as a button, Deep as a well. If you want me to talk, You must first pull my tail. What am I?

Answer: A bell

Rating: 100%

Riddle: If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?

Answer: A promise.

Rating: 100%

Riddle: The higher I climb, the hotter I engage, I can not escape my crystal cage. What am I?

Answer: Mercury in a thermometer

Rating: 100%

Riddle: 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

Rating: 100%

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2025

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