What Am I? Collection

Classic "What Am I?" riddles — describe something without naming it.

25 riddles in this collection

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Sounds like he works on public transportation but he really works in a restaurant.

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A shower that lights up the sky

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What tastes better than it smells?

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I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?

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Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word.

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Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.

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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...

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You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?

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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. W...

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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 fu...

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There are several different kinds but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What is it?

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What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?

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People need me, but they always give me away. What am I?

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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...

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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...

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Two bodies have I, though both joined in one. The more still I stand, the quicker I run. What am I?

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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 t...

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What driver never gets arrested?

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I am partly blind but can still see. I have legs but only use them for sleeping. What am I?

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I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?

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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 mone...

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What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented m...

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I drape the hills in white. I do not swallow, but I sure do bite. What am I?

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I craft crowns of gold and bridges of silver. Who am I?

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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 a...

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