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What Am I Riddles (with Answers)
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“What am I?” riddles stack clues until one answer satisfies every line. They train you to avoid locking onto the first noun that fits clue one and instead look for the single thing that satisfies the whole poem. This hub collects those classic-style riddles and prints the answer with each one so you can compare your guess to the full solution.
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Riddles in this collection
- A one-seeded fruit I may be, but all of your calendars are full of me. What am I?
- A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
- A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
- A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
- A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
- As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
- Almost everyone sees me without noticing me, For what is beyond is what he or she seeks. What am I?
- At dusk I come without being fetched. At dawn I disappear without being stolen. I'm a poet's tears and a sailor's guide. What am I ?
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