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
- Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
- 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?
- 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?
- A one-seeded fruit I may be, but all of your calendars are full of me. What am I?
- For some I go fast for others I'm slow. To most people, I'm an obsession relying on me is a well practiced lesson. What am I?
- Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change. What am I?
- Dark with white markings, And smooth like a rock. Where learning occurs, I help convey thought. 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?
- I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assasinated. 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?
- Give me an x, I'll stand to face you. Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you. What am I?
- I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?
- I am a tree, but I am very small... Who am I?
- A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son. Who am I.
- I am a fathers child and a mothers child, yet I am not a son. Who am I?
- A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
- I am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, ofcourse. I am color orange. 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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