Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to entertain your kids on a long car ride or a rainy day at home?
If so, you’re in luck!
We’ve got a list of hilarious “What Am I?” jokes and riddles that will keep your little ones guessing and giggling for hours on end.
They especially come in handy on a long road trip, in a boring waiting room, or even around the dinner table when the conversation goes dry.
Some families like to post fun riddles on the refrigerator or bulletin board, and see who can come up with the answer first. It’s a fun way to incorporate brain teasers into your every day life.
Other families host a weekly family game night, where they pop some popcorn and quiz each other on hilarious jokes and the best riddles they can find.
Simply put: Telling jokes and solving riddles is a great way for families to bond, share some laughs together, and spend quality time together.
But wait, there’s more!
The benefits of riddles is something that isn’t talked about very often.
These brain teasers not only provide endless entertainment but also help kids develop critical thinking skills and improve their problem-solving skills, creating thinking, and perseverance.
When kids don’t get the correct answer the first time, they have a natural motivation in a low-pressure environment not to give up, and to think about the problem in a new way.
So, whether you’re looking for a fun way to pass the time or want to challenge your family to a game of wits, these “What Am I?” jokes and riddles are sure to do the trick.
There are both easy riddles and hard riddles in this list. Even young children will be able to figure some of these out if they really put their mind to it.
Keep reading for our top picks and get ready to have some fun!
1. I am full of keys, but I cannot open any door. What am I?
Answer: A Piano
2. I am full of holes, but I can still hold a lot of water. What am I?
Answer: A Sponge
3. I get smaller every time I take a bath. What am I?
Answer: A Bar of Soap
4. You can catch me, but you can’t throw me. What am I?
Answer: A Cold
5. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can‘t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath
6. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: The letter e. End, timE, spacE
7. I make two people out of one. What am I?
Answer: A mirror
8. I make a loud noise when I’m changing. When I change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?
Answer: Popcorn.
9. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A pencil
10. I am a seed that is a three letter word. Take two letters away and I still sound the same. What am I?
Answer: A pea
11. I have many sharp teeth but I cannot bite. What am I?
Answer: A comb
12. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
13. I have eyes but I can’t see. What am I?
Answer: A potato
14. I am a word of letters three. Add two letters, and fewer there will be! What Word Am I?
Answer: Few
15. 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?
Answer: A baby chick in an egg
16. I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me. What am I?
Answer: Eye
17. Tomorrow I am surely here, yesterday I am found as well. Today I am gone. Who am I?
Answer: The letter R
18. I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?
Answer: A chalkboard
19. When I’m used, I’m useless. When I’m offered, I’m usually rejected. What am I?
Answer: An excuse
20. I am served at a table, and I’m small, white, and round. What am I?
Answer: A ping-pong ball
21.What is as light as a feather, yet even the strongest person cannot hold it for long. What am I?
Your breath
22. I have a bed but I never sleep. I have a mouth but I never speak. What am I?
Answer: River
23. I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle
24. I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke
25. The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
Answer: A hole
26. I’m always in you, and sometimes on you. If I surround you, I can kill you. What am I?
Answer: Water
27. Forwards I am heavy, but when I’m backward, I am not. What am I?
Answer: “Ton”
28. I have two hands, but I can not scratch myself. What am I?
Answer: A clock
29. I have no feet, no hands, and no wings, but I can climb into the sky. What am I?
Answer: Smoke
30. I’m a god, a planet, and a measurer of heat. Who am I?
Answer: Mercury
31. I have a head and a tail that will never meet. Having too many of me is always a treat. What am I?
Answer: A coin
32. I come in different colors. Sometimes I am hot, sometimes I am sweet. Even though I have a bell it doesn’t ring. What am I?
Answer: Bell pepper
32. I’m an instrument through which a loud sound can be made, but I am not something that can be played. What am I?
Answer: Your voice
33. Those that make me, don’t want me. Those that buy me, don’t use me. Those that use me don’t know it. What am I?
Answer: A casket
34. If you want me to talk, you must first pull my tail. What am I?
Answer: A bell
35. You’ll find me all around you; I can be clear but not seen through.
Answer: Skin
36. I go up but never come down. What am I?
Answer: Age
37. I have hands, but I cannot clap. What am I?
Answer: A Clock
38. I come down, but I never go up. What am I?
Answer: Rain
39. I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown. What am I?
Answer: An Eyeball
40. I get wet while drying. What am I?
Answer: A Towel
41. I must be broken before you can use me. What am I?
Answer: An Egg
42. I have a thumb and four fingers but I’m not alive. What am I?
Answer: A Glove
43. I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A Bottle
44. I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Answer: A Bed
45. I have a spine but no bones. What am I?
Answer: A Book
46. I am a 5 letter word. Take away the first letter and I am a place’s name. Take away the first two letters and I become the opposite of the 5 letter word. Who am I?
Answer: Woman –> Man
47. I have a head and a tail, but no arms and legs. What am I?
Answer: A Coin
48. I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, you are close behind. What am I?
Answer: A Nose
49. Take off my skin; I won’t cry but you might. What am I?
Answer: An Onion
50. I always follow you around everywhere you go at night.
Answer: The Moon
51. If I drink I die, If I eat I live. What am I?
Answer: Fire
52. People buy me to eat, but people never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A Plate
53. I never ask questions, but I’m always answered. What am I?
Answer: A Doorbell
54. I am the only thing that places today before yesterday. What am I?
Answer: The dictionary
55. I do not speak, and I cannot hear, but I always tell the truth. What am I?
Answer: A Mirror
56. I can go up the chimney when I’m down, but I cannot go down the chimney when I’m up. What am I?
Answer: An Umbrella
57. You see me once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E”
58. I lose my head in the morning, but I get it back at night. What am I?
Answer: A Pillow
59. I’m round on both sides but high in the middle. What am I?
Answer: Ohio
60. I go up and down, but I never move. What am I?
Answer: A Flight of Stairs
61. You find me once in the morning, twice in the afternoon, but never in the evening. What am I?
Answer: The Letter “O”
62. The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness
63. Say my name and I will disappear. What am I?
Answer: Silence
64. My rings are not worth much, but they tell my age. What am I?
Answer: A Tree
65. I’m a coat that can only be put on wet. What kind of coat am I?
Answer: A Coat of Paint
66. I occur once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years. What am I?
Answer: The Letter “M”
67. I get sharper the more I’m used. What am I?
Answer: A Brain
68. I can be as big as an elephant, but I weigh nothing. What am I?
Answer: A Shadow
69. You can make me, but you can’t see me. What am I?
Answer: Noise
70. I’m not alive, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A Battery
71. I can be opened but never closed. What am I?
Answer: An Egg
72. I sit in the corner while traveling around the world. What am I?
Answer: A Stamp
73. People need me, yet they’re always giving me away. What am I?
Answer: Money
74. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I’m dead. What am I?
Answer: Onion
75. You can throw me away, but I will always come back. What am I?
Answer: A Boomerang
76. I go around the yard, but I do not move. What am I?
Answer: A Fence
77. Without me, you would lose your head. What am I?
Answer: A Neck
78. My days are numbered. What am I?
Answer: A Calendar
79. I always go to bed with my shoes on. What am I?
Answer: A Horse
80. I fill up a room, but I take up no space. What am I?
Answer: Light
81. I can go up and down without moving. What am I?
Answer: The Temperature
82. You can serve me, but you can’t eat me. What am I?
Answer: A Tennis Ball
83. If you have me, you don’t share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
Answer: A Secret
84. I have four eyes, but I cannot see. What am I?
Answer: Mississippi
85. I’m easy to get into, but hard to get out of. What am I?
Answer: Trouble
86. I start with an “E” and end with an “E”, but I only have one letter. What am I?
Answer: An Envelope
87. I am constantly overlooked by everyone, yet everyone has me. What am I?
Answer: A Nose
88. The faster you run, the harder it is to catch me. What am I?
Answer: Breath
89. I have three feet, but I cannot walk. What am I?
Answer: A Yardstick
90. I am the only word that looks the same when spelled upside down. What am I?
Answer: Swims
91. Though I am only two words, I have thousands of letters in me. What am I?
Answer: A Post Office
92. I’m the building with the greatest number of stories. What am I?
Answer: A Library
93. Take me out and scratch my head. I am now black, but I once was red. What am I?
Answer: A Match
94. I have one eye but cannot see.
Answer: A needle
95. I’m always in front of you but cannot be seen.
Answer: The future
96. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven
97. I’m not man’s best friend, I’m their enemy, I can mark your end, yet you do not see me.
Answer: A Virus
98. I never ask questions but I need an answer.
Answer: A cell phone
99. Poor people have me. Rich people need me. If you eat me, you die.
Answer: nothing
100. I live in a green house. Inside of me is a white house. Inside of the white house is a red house. Inside of the red house there are lots of babies. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon
101. I’m contain every single letter, but I only have three syllables.
Answer: The alphabet (the word)
102. I can break even though you can never touch me or pick me up.
Answer: A promise
103. I’m red or green and grow on a vine. I’m dried to make raisins and squeezed to make wine. What am I?
Answer: Grapes.
104. When things go wrong, you can always count on me
Answer: Fingers
105. I have a head, a tail, and I’m brown, but I have no legs?
Answer: A penny.
106. I have legs but cannot walk.
Answer: A chair
We hope you had a great time together with this thoughtfully curated collection of riddles. Our hope is that your children’s minds were challenged in a fun way.
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