What Am I?
Descriptive riddles where you must identify an object or concept.
The Color Riddle
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal
The Wet Problem
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river
The Growing Mystery
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
The Road Riddle
What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but can’t go in?
Answer: A keyboard
The Matching Problem
I am taken from a mine, and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead
The Growing Problem
What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
The Rainy Friend
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Answer: Your shadow
The Counting Problem
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of playing cards
The Walking Riddle
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
The Speaking Question
Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?
Answer: An onion