What Am I Riddles

What am I riddles are riddles in which you must identify what is being described by the riddle. These riddles often use a play on words to try and trick you.

Fasten to Walk and Unfasten to Stop

I fasten it and it walks. I unfasten it and it stops. What is it?

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Until I Am Measured, I Am Not Known

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me when I have flown. What am I?

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Comes down but Never Goes up

What comes down but never goes up?

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Look Right Through a Wall

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

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What We Caught, We Threw Away

Two fishermen posed a riddle to the Greek poet Homer: What we caught, we threw away; what we didn’t catch, we kept. What did we keep? Homer could not solve the riddle. Can you solve it?

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