What Am I? Collection
25 riddles — Classic "What Am I?" riddles — describe something without naming it.
Riddle #1
Sounds like he works on public transportation but he really works in a restaurant.
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #2
A shower that lights up the sky
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #3
What tastes better than it smells?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #4
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?
Hard · what-am-i
Riddle #5
Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word.
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #6
Lighter than what I am made of,
More of me is hidden Than is seen.
Medium · what-am-i
Riddle #7
When you went into the woods you got me.
You hated me yet you wanted to find me.
You went home with me cause you couldn't find me
What was it?
Hard · what-am-i
Riddle #8
You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
Hard · what-am-i
Riddle #9
The cost of making only the maker knows,
Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded.
A poor man may give one as easily as a king.
When one is broken pain and deceit are assured.
Medium · what-am-i
Riddle #10
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?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #11
There are several different kinds but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What is it?
Hard · what-am-i
Riddle #12
What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #13
People need me, but they always give me away.
What am I?
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Riddle #14
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Hard · what-am-i
Riddle #15
You use me everyday but let me rest at night. I have an identical twin beside me all the time. For some reason you always cover me up. I am not alive but I have a soul.
What am I?
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Riddle #16
Two bodies have I,
though both joined in one.
The more still I stand,
the quicker I run.
What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #17
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?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #18
What driver never gets arrested?
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Riddle #19
I am partly blind but can still see. I have legs but only use them for sleeping. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #20
I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #21
I am a word of meanings three.
Three ways of spelling me there be.
The first is an odor, a smell if you will.
The second some money, but not in a bill.
The third is past tense, a method of passing things on or around.
Can you tell me now, what these words are, that have the same sound?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #22
What does man love more than life
Fear more than death or mortal strife
What the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
And all men carry to their graves?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #23
I drape the hills in white. I do not swallow, but I sure do bite. What am I?
Easy · what-am-i
Riddle #24
I craft crowns of gold and bridges of silver. Who am I?
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Riddle #25
I am a fruit. If you take away the first letter of my name I become a crime. Take away the first two letters of my name I become an animal. Take away the first and last letter of my name and I become a form of music. What am I?
Hard · what-am-i
Answers
1. Bus Boy
2. Meteor
3. Your tongue
4. The letter 't'
5. UND
UNDergrouUND
6. Iceberg
7. A splinter
8. Bell
9. Promise
10. Ping Pong Balls
11. A lock.
12. His job
13. Money
14. Darkness
15. Your Feet.
16. An hourglass
17. Wheelbarrow
18. A screw driver
19. A bat
20. Gum
21. Scent, cent, sent
22. Nothing
23. Frost
24. A dentist
25. Grape
Rape
Ape
Rap