100 Tricky ‘What Am I’ Jokes For Kids (2025)

Updated for 2025 with even more family-friendly fun

Looking for the best “What Am I?” jokes for kids? These tricky riddles are a fun way to keep kids entertained on car rides, rainy days, or even around the dinner table. They’re silly, surprising, and just challenging enough to get everyone thinking.

Families love using “What Am I?” riddles for game nights, posting them on the fridge, or quizzing each other at bedtime. Not only do they bring out giggles, but they also help kids practice problem-solving and creative thinking in a low-pressure way.

From easy riddles little ones can solve to tricky brain teasers that might even stump the adults, here are 100 of the best “What Am I?” riddles for families to share and enjoy together.

If your kids love riddles, be sure to check out our complete collection of jokes for kids organized by theme for even more laughs.

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Best What Am I Jokes & Riddles For Kids

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 was 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

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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

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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

33. 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

34. 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

35. If you want me to talk, you must first pull my tail. What am I?
Answer: A bell

36. You’ll find me all around you; I can be clear but not seen through. What am I?
Answer: Skin

37. I go up but never come down. What am I?
Answer: Age

38. I have hands, but I cannot clap. What am I?
 Answer: A Clock

39. I come down, but I never go up. What am I?
Answer: Rain

40. I am a ball that can be rolled but never bounced or thrown. What am I?
Answer: An Eyeball

41. I get wet while drying. What am I?
Answer: A Towel

42. I must be broken before you can use me. What am I?
Answer: An Egg

43. I have a thumb and four fingers, but I’m not alive. What am I?
Answer: A Glove

44. I have a neck but no head. What am I?
Answer: A Bottle

45. I have one head, one foot, and four legs. What am I?
Answer: A Bed

46. I have a spine but no bones. What am I?
Answer: A Book

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47. 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. What am I?
Answer: Woman –> Man

48. I have a head and a tail, but no arms and legs. What am I?
Answer: A Coin

49. I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, you are close behind. What am I?
Answer: A Nose

50. Take off my skin; I won’t cry but you might. What am I?
Answer: An Onion

51. I always follow you around everywhere you go at night. What am I?
Answer: The Moon

512. If I drink, I die; if I eat, I live. What am I?
Answer: Fire

53. People buy me to eat, but people never eat me. What am I?
Answer: A Plate

54. I never ask questions, but I’m always answered. What am I?
Answer: A Doorbell

55 I am the only thing that places today before yesterday. What am I?
Answer: The Dictionary

56. I do not speak, and I cannot hear, but I always tell the truth. What am I?
Answer: A Mirror

57. 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

58. You see me once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day. What am I?
Answer: The Letter “E”

59. I lose my head in the morning, but I get it back at night. What am I?
Answer: A Pillow

60. I’m round on both sides but high in the middle. What am I?
Answer: Ohio

61. I go up and down, but I never move. What am I?
Answer: A Flight of Stairs

62. You find me once in the morning, twice in the afternoon, but never in the evening. What am I?
Answer: The Letter “O”

63. The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
Answer: Darkness

64. Say my name and I will disappear. What am I?
Answer: Silence

65. My rings are not worth much, but they tell my age. What am I?
Answer: A Tree

66. I’m a coat that can only be put on when wet. What kind of coat am I?
Answer: A Coat of Paint

67. I occur once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years. What am I?
Answer: The Letter “M”

68. I get sharper the more I’m used to it. What am I?
Answer: A Brain

69. I can be as big as an elephant, but I weigh nothing. What am I?
Answer: A Shadow

70. You can make me, but you can’t see me. What am I?
Answer: Noise

71. 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. What am I?
Answer: A Needle

95. I’m always in front of you but cannot be seen. What am I?
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. What am I?
Answer: A Virus

98. I never ask questions, but I need an answer. What am I?
Answer: A Cell Phone

99. Poor people have me. Rich people need me. If you eat me, you die. What am I?
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

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101. I’m contain every single letter, but I only have three syllables. What am I?
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. What am I?
Answer: Fingers

105. I have a head, a tail, and I’m brown, but I have no legs. What am I?
 Answer: A Penny.

106. I have legs but cannot walk. What am I?
Answer: A Chair

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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.