"What Am I?" Riddles with Answers

"What am I?" riddles are a classic format where the riddle describes an object, concept, or creature from its own perspective. The solver must figure out what is being described based on the clues given. These riddles are excellent for building lateral thinking skills and are popular with all age groups.

295 riddles

easywhat am-i

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.

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

easywhat am-i

What has an eye but cannot see?

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What falls, but never breaks? What Breaks, but never falls?

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I start with the letter e, I end with the letter e. I contain only one letter, Yet I am not the letter e! What am I?

mediumwhat am-i

I love to dance and twist and prance, I shake my tail, as away I sail, wingless I fly into the sky. What am I?

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He has one and a person has two, a citizen has three and a human being has four, a personality has five and an inhabitant of earth has six. What am I?

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Travel a mile and I will change, travel a million and I will end as I started, What am I?

easywhat am-i

I am seen in the water if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jays feather,and lapis lazuli.

easywhat am-i

Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?

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I am cold to the touch but yet I burn if held What am I?

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When I am filled I can point the way, When I am empty Nothing moves me, I have two skins One without and one within. What am I?

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I have joy in bringing two together, but darning my existence! My life hangs by a thread, filled with ups, downs and resistance!

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Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.

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What driver never gets arrested?

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A noble device, cursed to accept disgraceful treatment. It's absence can tell a man he doesn't belong. What is it?

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I am the only organ that named myself. What am I?

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A "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

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Looks like water, but it's heat. Sits on sand, lays on concrete. People have been known, To follow it everywhere. But it gets them no place, And all they can do...

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What is it something that you always have but you always leave behind?

mediumwhat am-i

Tool of thief, toy of queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed.

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I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?

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You do not want me but If you get me you do not want to lose me

hardwhat am-i

What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?