"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

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I am in the sky but also in the ground. When you study me, no matter how long, I will always end with an f. I may be in your yard but not in your house. What am...

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Though liquid in nature, don't push me too far for then I will break, and the damage may scar. What am I?

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Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?

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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 the ground. What am I?

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What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

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Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin. Light enough to caress the sky. Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?

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I cover what's real; hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?

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Squeeze me and I cry tears as red as flesh, but my heart is made of stone. What am I?

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I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two and I still sound the same. What am I?

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What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?

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You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

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All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.

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The man who makes it doesn't use it; the man who buys it doesn't need it; the man who uses it doesn't know it. What is it?

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A three-letter word I'm sure you know, I can be on a boat or a sleigh in the snow, I'm pals with the rain and honor a king, But my favorite use is attached to a...

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What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

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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. It comes first and follows a...

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Fill my bucket, spill my bucket, Over a plane of snow. Black the track as I look back, My footsteps talk but make no sound. What am I?

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I will be nice, if you see pics thrice. I bear fruit of trees, sometimes in 3's. I am but an arm's length in front of you. What am I?

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I am black of eye and bright of hair And my feet are firmly in the ground. I love the sun upon my face And I follow it around. When I am dead and gone tis said,...

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Glittering points that downward thrust, Sparkling spears that never rust.

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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 men desire, What the miser spen...

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I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery cry. Of mansions never quite disclosed And never quite con...

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I dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them. I build bridges out of silver, Make crowns out of gold, But everyone is afraid of me Even the young and...

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