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What Am I Riddles (with Answers)

“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

  1. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
  2. I travel all over the world, but always stay in my corner. What am I?
  3. I have a head but no body, a heart but no blood. Just leaves and no branches, I grow without wood. What am I?
  4. I have keys but no locks. I have a space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
  5. I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
  6. I say everything I hear to others around. I'm not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I?
  7. I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?
  8. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?
  9. I killed one fourth of all mankind. Who am I?
  10. 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?
  11. I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?
  12. Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, A lady's delight. What am I?
  13. I'm blue at day and black at night; I do contain some creatures born and died. What am I?
  14. I always follow you around, everywhere you go at night. I look very bright to people, but I can make the sun dark. I can be in many different forms and shapes. What am I?
  15. I start with M and end with X. I have a never ending amount of letters. What am I?
  16. I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?
  17. If it’s information you seek, come and see me. If it’s pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?
  18. I contain five little items of an everyday sort. You can find all five in a tennis court. What am I?
  19. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but cant go outside. What am I?
  20. I can tear down mountains, or build them up. I can blind a man, or enable him to see. What am I?
  21. I touch the Earth, I touch the sky, but if I touch you, you’ll likely die. What am I?
  22. I start with “e” end with “e”. I have whole countries inside me. What am I?
  23. I never speak unless spoken to, many have heard me but none have seen me. What am I?
  24. I no longer have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I’m white and empty. What am I?
  25. Every night and every morning I am told what to do and I do it, yet everyone is still mad at me? What am I?
  26. I don’t have eyes, ears, nose or a tongue, but I can see, smell, hear and taste everything. What am I?
  27. If I drink, I die. If i eat, I am fine. What am I?
  28. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
  29. I have two legs, but they only touch the ground while I'm at rest. What am I?
  30. I have a head, tail, but no arms and legs. What am I?
  31. I go around all the places, cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I?
  32. I have no legs. I will never walk, but always run. What am I?
  33. I have no life, but I can die, what am I?
  34. I was born big, but as the day passes, as I get older, I become small. What am I?
  35. I am full of keys, but I cannot open any door. What am I?
  36. A one-seeded fruit I may be, but all of your calendars are full of me. What am I?
  37. I may be simple, I may be complex; I may have a name, but no gender or sex; I am often a question, or statements as a setup; I tend to have an answer, 'til you find it I won't let up. What am I?
  38. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
  39. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
  40. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest person can't hold me for five minutes. What am I?
  41. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
  42. I'm tall when I'm young, and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
  43. I'm not alive, but I can grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
  44. I shrink smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?
  45. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
  46. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
  47. I have keys but open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go outside. What am I?
  48. I have a tail and a head but no body. What am I?
  49. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
  50. I'm light as a feather, but not even the strongest man can hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?

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