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88 Clever, Funny, and Testing What Am I Riddles
If you love riddles and brain teasers then you are probably familiar with What Am I riddles. These popular riddles challenge you to guess the identity of a particular object, animal, or concept based on a series of clues. What Am I riddles typically use wordplay, puns, and metaphors to obscure the answer, requiring you to think outside of the box in order to solve them.
Generally short riddles, these clever riddles cover a variety of different subjects and topics and are aimed at all ages. There are riddles for kids, hard riddles, easy riddles, and interesting riddles that will test your brain teaser powers.
A classic What Am I riddle might go something like this: “I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?” The answer is a candle. Simple right? Well, not every What Am I riddle is that easy, as you will soon discover below.
We have managed to put together a varied collection of What Am I riddles that are clever, funny, and testing. No matter how smart you are, some of these riddles will certainly test your brain power and puzzle skills. Whether you’re playing alone, with friends, or trying to entertain the kids with some What Am I riddles, these conundrums are a great way to pass the time and sharpen your mind.
1. I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the sky. What am I?
Smoke.
2. You can touch me, You can break me, You should win me if you want to be mine. What am I?
A heart.
3. I help you from your head to your toe. The more I work, the smaller I grow. What am I?
A bar of soap.
4. I can wave my hands at you, but I never say goodbye. You are always cool when with me, even more so when I am high. What am I?
An electric fan.
5. No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?
A calendar.
6. I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
A joke.
7. You go at red but stop at green. What am I?
A watermelon.
8. I have a head and a tail that will never meet. Having too many of me is always a treat. What am I?
A coin.
9. I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
Clouds.
10. Look in my face, I am somebody; Look in my back, I am nobody. What am I?
A mirror.
11. I am something people love or hate. I change people’s appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people, I will fool them. To others, I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. What am I?
Age.
12. I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?
A blackboard.
13. This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What am I?
Your breath.
14. I’m (usually) white and used for cutting and grinding. When I’m damaged, humans usually remove me or fill me. For most animals, I am a useful tool. What am I?
A tooth.
15. I get lost every time you stand up. What am I?
Your lap.
16. Always in you, Sometimes on you; If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Water.
17. I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
A tree.
18. I am a fruit that is always sad. What am I?
A blueberry.
19. What comes all the way to a house but never goes in? What am I?
The steps
20. I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Pencil lead.
21. What has a green thorn exterior and a juicy, sweet interior?
Pineapple (one of our favorite fruits).
22. I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
The letter e.
23. I’m a god, a planet, and I measure heat. What am I?
Mercury.
24. Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?
An onion.
25. I’m an instrument through which sounds are made, and yet, not something that can be played. What am I?
Your voice.
26. I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
A bank.
27. I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
A chick in an egg.
28. A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?
A pea.
29. I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?
A dictionary.
30. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
A barber.
31. Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
Time.
32. I’m as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I’ll approach like a breeze but can come like a gale. By some, I get hit, but all have shown fear. I’ll dance to the music, though I can’t hear. Of names, I have many, of names I have one. I’m as slow as a snail, but from me, you can’t run. What am I?
A shadow.
33. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps.
34. I can never be thrown but I can be caught. Ways to lose me are always being sought. What am I?
A cold.
35. I am a word of six; my first three letters refer to an automobile; my last three letters refer to a household animal; my first four letters are a fish; my whole is found in your room. What am I?
A carpet.
36. Four fingers and a thumb, Yet flesh and blood, I have none. What am I?
A glove.
37. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle.
38. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?
A telephone.
39. I look just like a half loaf of bread. What am I?
The other half of a loaf of bread.
40. I lose my head in the morning but get it back at night. What am I?
A pillow.
41. 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?
The Moon.
42. The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
A hole.
43. I have a thousand needles but I do not sew. What am I?
A porcupine.
44. I go up when the rain comes down. What am I?
An umbrella.
45. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Fire.
46. The more there is the less you see. What am I?
Fog.
47. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me.
Fire.
48. I have many teeth but I can’t bite. I’m often used early but rarely at night. What am I?
A comb.
49. You can drop me from the tallest building and I will be well, but if you drop me in water I will die. What am I?
Paper.
50. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
A secret.
51. I have two hands, but I can not scratch myself. What am I?
A clock.
52. I am a cross between a computer and a dairy product. What am I?
Mac and Cheese.
53. People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
Cutlery.
54. I am six letters. When you take one away I am twelve. What am I?
55. I am strong enough to smash ships, but I fear the Sun. What am I?
Ice.
56. Tool of a thief, toy of a queen. Always used to be unseen. Sign of joy, sign of sorrow. Giving all likeness borrowed. What am I?
A mask.
The color blue.
58. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Money.
59. I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone, and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map.
60. I am always in front of you but you can never see me. What am I?
The future.
61. 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 butterfly.
62. I have 13 hearts, but no other organs? What am I?
A deck of cards.
63. I am a band that never plays music. What am I?
A rubber band.
64. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
The word not.
65. I am a fruit, a bird, and a person. What am I?
A Kiwi.
66. I have a bed but I never sleep. I have a mouth but I never speak. What am I?
A river.
67. I am the kind of dog that has no tail. What am I?
A hot dog
68. You heard me before, and then again. Afterward, I die, until you call me again. What am I?
An echo.
69. I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me. What am I?
An eye.
70. I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always at risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of the darkness. What am I?
The letter s.
71. A slender body, a tiny eye, no matter what happens, I never cry. What am I?
A needle.
72. I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
Fingernails.
73. I’m alive without air. I’m always drinking but never thirsty. What am I?
A fish.
74. Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?
The letter r.
75. I have no eyes, legs, or ears, but I can move the earth if you give me time. What am I?
A worm.
76. I’m so fast you can’t see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I won’t stop until the day you die. What am I?
The blink of an eye.
77. I’m found in the sea and on land but I can’t walk or swim. I travel by foot but I’m toeless. No matter where I go I’m never far from home. What am I?
A snail.
78. People all over the world come again and again to see me. Most people spend years with me. I am able to make you smarter and wealthier too. What am I?
School.
79. You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never taint me. What am I?
History.
80. I go around the schoolyard but I never move. What am I?
A fence.
81. Some try to hide, some try to cheat, but time will show, and we always will meet. What am I?
Death.
82. I sometimes run but never walk. You follow me wherever you go. What am I?
Your nose.
83. I am full of keys but can’t open doors. What am I?
A piano.
84. I have a head, a tail, no legs, and I’m brown. What am I?
A penny.
85. Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgotten. For profit or gain, I’m used expertly, I can’t be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, can you unravel my rhyme? What am I?
Knowledge.
86. When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark. What am I?
A light switch.
87. I am the ruler of shovels, I have a double. I am as thin as a knife, I have a wife. What am I?
The King of Spades in a deck of cards.
88. You can enter in, but you can’t come in. I can give you space, but no room. I have keys, but no lock. What am I?
A computer keyboard.
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