What Am I? Collection
Classic "What Am I?" riddles — describe something without naming it.
25 riddles in this collection
Sounds like he works on public transportation but he really works in a restaurant.
A shower that lights up the sky
What tastes better than it smells?
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing. What am I?
Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word.
Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.
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?
You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
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 dec...
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?
There are several different kinds but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What is it?
What does no man want, yet no man want to lose?
People need me, but they always give me away. What am I?
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 a...
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...
Two bodies have I, though both joined in one. The more still I stand, the quicker I run. What am I?
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?
What driver never gets arrested?
I am partly blind but can still see. I have legs but only use them for sleeping. What am I?
I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?
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 thir...
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 spen...
I drape the hills in white. I do not swallow, but I sure do bite. What am I?
I craft crowns of gold and bridges of silver. Who am I?
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...