"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

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

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

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...
Many many years ago when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red. My fa...

This company makes billions of dollars selling Windows.

Sometimes I am loved, Usually by the young. Other times I am dreaded, Mostly by the old ones. I am hard to remember, Also hard to forget. And yet if you do, You...

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

I saw an unusual book: The foreword comes after the epilogue; The end is in the first half of the book; The index comes before the introduction. Name the book.

My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report. What am I?

The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?

Runs over fields and woods all day Under the bed at night sits not alone, With long tongue hanging out, A-waiting for a bone." What am I?

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

I sit on a bridge. Some people will look through me while others wonder what I hide. What am I?

Pearl white chest without key or lid. Inside of which golden treasure is hid. What am I?

I am the beginning of everything, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place. What am I?

Sometimes I am liked, Sometimes I am hated. Usually I am old, Usually I am dated.

I can be smooth as silk when you touch me Yet hard as rock when you hit me I can be crystal clear Or dark as pitch I can be still and silent Or I can rumble and...

I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams dreamt. My merest touch brings laughte...

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...

What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

I love to move around, But usually not on the ground. I'm quite strung out when way up high. I like to sail, but I need to stay dry. I need air, but not to brea...

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

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,...

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?