What Am I Riddles

I make you think, I make you ponder,
My answer is nowhere but yonder,
I make your mind really bend,
Till you get it right in the end! What am I?

A riddle of course!

There's nothing that really gets your gray cells ticking like a riddle does. Riddles are loads of fun to solve, and the most common and interesting ones are the 'what am I riddles'.

Easy Riddles

I am an insect and the first half of my name reveals another insect. Some famous musicians had a name similar to mine. What am I?


I go up but at the same time go down. Up towards the blue sky, and down towards the ground. I'm present tense and past tense too, so why don't you come for a ride, just me and you! What am I?


I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet my keys can unlock your deepest senses. What am I?


Pronounced as one letter,
But written with three,
Two letters there are,
And only two in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?


I am greater than God and more evil than the devil himself. The poor have me, the rich need me and if you ever eat me you'll die. What am I?


I always run but never walk, often murmur but never talk, have a bed but never sleep, have a mouth but never eat. What am I?


I am black when you get me, red when you use me and white when you're all done with me. What am I?


Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet you miss me so much
When I have flown.


Funny Riddles

Each morning I appear
To lie at your feet,
All day I will follow you
No matter how fast you run,
Yet I nearly perish
In the midday sun.


My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.


You hear me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
Until you call me again.


At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or at times weep


Two in a corner,
1 in a room,
0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?


I cannot be seen and I weigh nothing, but when put into a barrel, I make it lighter. What am I?


I start with a T and end with a T and have T in me. What am I?


You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you do often see. What am I?


Hard Riddles

Say my name and I will disappear. What am I?


After you take away the whole of me, some of me still stays behind. What am I?


Forward I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not. What am I?


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?


Every dawn begins with me
At dusk I'll be the first you see
And daybreak couldn't come without
What midday centers all about
Daises grow from me, I'm told
And when I come, I end all cold
But in the sun I won't be found
Yet still, each day I'll be around
What am I?


I am full of holes, yet I am full of water. What am I?


I make a loud noise when changing my jacket and become larger but weigh less later. What am I?


The more you take of me, the more you end up leaving behind. What am I?


So these were a few riddles that must've made you realize that common sense isn't all that common after all! Happy riddling!