Who Am I Riddles

Ten who am I riddles, each answered by a person: guess who is speaking, then tap Show answer.

Who Am I Riddles

I have been tagged, so I stand frozen on the spot until a free player touches me. Who am I?
I hold a round sign at the corner, and cars wait while children cross. Who am I?
I run the last part of the race, and the stick I carry has passed through my teammates' hands first. Who am I?
I am your daughter's brother. Who am I to you?
I am your mother's brother's daughter. Who am I to you?
I whisper a sentence into one ear and hear something very different come back at the end. Who am I?
I am your father's mother's husband. Who am I to you?
Through a telescope of my own making I saw the phases of Venus, craters on the Moon and spots on the Sun. Who am I?
I traded the family cow for a handful of beans and climbed what grew from them. Who am I?
I opened the door, hung up the coats and planned every game tonight. Who am I?

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How it works

In these who am I riddles a person describes themselves and you say who is speaking: a lighthouse keeper, your mother's brother's daughter, the boy with the beanstalk, the first person on the Moon.

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From jobs to fairy tale riddles

The menu under the button keeps one set. Jobs describe the work. Family riddles name a relative by a chain of others. Rhymes and old tales cover nursery rhymes and folk tales: the girl with the glass slipper, the piper with the rats. People from history rest on a checked fact. Party and game roles are the people of a party.

How to play

Read a riddle aloud in the speaker's voice and take guesses. Show answer opens the answer and one line that says why. For teams, the first correct shout wins the point, and Pick 10 new riddles deals the next round.

Tips

For a family riddle, draw the tree: one line up for a parent, one across for a brother or sister.
Turn the game around: a player thinks of a person and the others ask who-am-I questions.

Questions and answers

What is a good who am I riddle?

One with two clues that fit a single person. My workplace is a tower by the sea, and my one big lamp keeps ships off the rocks: a lighthouse keeper. I am your sister's husband's wife: your sister.

Are there who am I riddles about family members?

Yes, a whole set. I am your mother's brother's daughter: your cousin. My son is your father, and I am a man: your grandfather. Each was checked against a drawn family tree, so it points to one relative.

Which who am I riddles are the easiest?

The Jobs set and the Rhymes and old tales set use what most people meet first: a firefighter, a baker, Goldilocks, the Gingerbread Man. The history set asks for names learned at school, such as the first president of the United States.

Are the history riddles true?

Each one restates a sentence or two of the person's English Wikipedia article, read on October 3, 2026 at en.wikipedia.org. All of the people lived long ago or have died.

All 150 riddles

Jobs 30

I carry your plate from the kitchen, and I remember who ordered the soup. Who am I? Answer: A waiter. Taking orders and carrying plates is waiting tables.
I draw a house on paper long before anyone lays the first brick. Who am I? Answer: An architect. The drawing is a plan for a building.
I hold a round sign at the corner, and cars wait while children cross. Who am I? Answer: A crossing guard. The sign says stop, and the corner is near a school.
I lend you thousands of stories and ask only that you bring them back on time. Who am I? Answer: A librarian. Stories that are lent and returned are library books.
I measure twice and cut once, and I leave curls of wood all over the floor. Who am I? Answer: A carpenter. Measuring, sawing and wood shavings are carpentry.
I open my doors at every stop, and my seats fill with children carrying backpacks. Who am I? Answer: A school bus driver. Stops, doors and backpacks: the ride to school.
I plant in spring, worry about rain all summer and bring in the harvest in the fall. Who am I? Answer: A farmer. Planting, weather and harvest are a farmer's year.
I run all over the field but never score, and one blast from me stops the game. Who am I? Answer: A referee. The blast is a whistle, and only the referee stops play with it.
I say "hold still" and "smile", and one click saves the moment. Who am I? Answer: A photographer. The click is a camera, and the saved moment is a photograph.
I serve breakfast to lions, sweep up after elephants and know every animal by name. Who am I? Answer: A zookeeper. Lions and elephants under one keeper's care means a zoo.
I shape wet clay on a spinning wheel, and a hot oven finishes my work. Who am I? Answer: A potter. Clay on a wheel, fired in a kiln, becomes pottery.
I sit on a tall chair by the water with a whistle, and I watch every swimmer. Who am I? Answer: A lifeguard. The tall chair at a pool or beach is the lifeguard's.
I stand in front of a map and tell you whether to carry an umbrella tomorrow. Who am I? Answer: A weather forecaster. The map shows tomorrow's rain and sunshine.
I start work in the dark so that the loaves are warm when you wake. Who am I? Answer: A baker. Loaves ready at breakfast time were baked before dawn.
I take your measurements with a tape, and then a needle and thread do the rest. Who am I? Answer: A tailor. Measuring a person and sewing to fit is tailoring.
I tie stems into bunches, and my shop smells like a garden all year. Who am I? Answer: A florist. Stems in bunches are bouquets of flowers.
I train for years to float in a place with no air, and I see the whole Earth from my window. Who am I? Answer: An astronaut. Floating with no air outside means a spacecraft in orbit.
I walk your street six days a week with a bag of envelopes and never open one. Who am I? Answer: A mail carrier. The envelopes are other people's letters, carried door to door.
I wear a tall white hat, and my orders are called across a hot, busy kitchen. Who am I? Answer: A chef. The tall white hat is worn by the head of a restaurant kitchen.
I wear a veil and thick gloves to visit thousands of workers who make something sweet. Who am I? Answer: A beekeeper. The workers are honeybees, and the veil keeps them off the keeper's face.
I work with wires you cannot see behind the wall, and I always switch the power off first. Who am I? Answer: An electrician. Wires in the wall carry electricity.
My office has hundreds of dials and the best window in the world, far above the clouds. Who am I? Answer: A pilot. The office is a cockpit, and its window looks down on the clouds.
My patients have fur, feathers or scales, and not one of them can tell me where it hurts. Who am I? Answer: A veterinarian. A doctor whose patients are animals is a vet.
My workplace is a tower by the sea, and my one big lamp keeps ships off the rocks. Who am I? Answer: A lighthouse keeper. A tower by the sea with a lamp for ships is a lighthouse.
When I raise my arms the violins get ready, and when I lower them the music begins. Who am I? Answer: A conductor of an orchestra. The players of an orchestra start on the conductor's signal.
When the alarm rings I pull on boots and a heavy coat, and my truck carries ladders that reach the upper floors. Who am I? Answer: A firefighter. The alarm, the heavy coat and the ladder truck belong to a fire station.
When the sink will not drain or a pipe springs a leak, I arrive with a wrench. Who am I? Answer: A plumber. Drains, pipes and leaks are a plumber's work.
When your key is on the wrong side of the door, I can get you back in. Who am I? Answer: A locksmith. Opening a locked door without its key is a locksmith's trade.
You lean back in my chair under a bright lamp, and I hunt for cavities with a tiny mirror on a stick. Who am I? Answer: A dentist. The chair that tips back, the cavities and the little mouth mirror point to the dentist.
You sit in my chair under a cape, and you leave lighter than you came. Who am I? Answer: A barber. What you leave behind is hair on the floor.

Family 30

I am a woman. My mother is your grandmother, and my children are you and your brother and sister. Who am I to you? Answer: Your mother. Your grandmother's daughter whose children are you, your brother and your sister is your mother.
I am your brother's daughter. Who am I to you? Answer: Your niece. A brother's or sister's daughter is a niece.
I am your brother's wife. Who am I to you? Answer: Your sister-in-law. The wife of a brother is a sister-in-law.
I am your cousin's father, and I am your mother's brother. Who am I to you? Answer: Your uncle. Your mother's brother is your uncle, and his children are your cousins.
I am your daughter's brother. Who am I to you? Answer: Your son. Your daughter's brother is your child too, so he is your son.
I am your daughter's daughter. Who am I to you? Answer: Your granddaughter. A child's daughter is a granddaughter.
I am your daughter's husband. Who am I to you? Answer: Your son-in-law. A daughter's husband is a son-in-law.
I am your father's brother. Who am I to you? Answer: Your uncle. A parent's brother is an uncle.
I am your father's father's father. Who am I to you? Answer: Your great-grandfather. Your father's father is your grandfather, and his father is one step further back.
I am your father's mother's husband. Who am I to you? Answer: Your grandfather. Your father's mother is your grandmother, and her husband is your grandfather.
I am your father's sister's husband. Who am I to you? Answer: Your uncle. Your father's sister is your aunt, and her husband is your uncle by marriage.
I am your father's sister's son. Who am I to you? Answer: Your cousin. Your father's sister is your aunt, and an aunt's child is a cousin.
I am your mother's brother's daughter. Who am I to you? Answer: Your cousin. Your mother's brother is your uncle, and an uncle's child is a cousin.
I am your mother's brother's wife. Who am I to you? Answer: Your aunt. Your mother's brother is your uncle, and his wife is your aunt by marriage.
I am your mother's mother. Who am I to you? Answer: Your grandmother. A parent's mother is a grandmother.
I am your niece's father, and I am your mother's son. Who am I to you? Answer: Your brother. Your mother's son who has a daughter you call niece is your brother.
I am your sister's husband's wife. Who am I to you? Answer: Your sister. Your sister's husband has one wife: your sister.
I am your sister's husband. Who am I to you? Answer: Your brother-in-law. The husband of a sister is a brother-in-law.
I am your sister's son. Who am I to you? Answer: Your nephew. A brother's or sister's son is a nephew.
I am your son's son. Who am I to you? Answer: Your grandson. A child's son is a grandson.
I am your son's wife. Who am I to you? Answer: Your daughter-in-law. A son's wife is a daughter-in-law.
My brother is your father, and I am a woman. Who am I to you? Answer: Your aunt. Your father's sister is your aunt.
My daughter is your mother, and I am a woman. Who am I to you? Answer: Your grandmother. Your mother's mother is your grandmother.
My father is your brother, and I am a girl. Who am I to you? Answer: Your niece. Your brother's daughter is your niece.
My son is your father, and I am a man. Who am I to you? Answer: Your grandfather. Your father's father is your grandfather.
You are a girl. I am your mother's daughter, and I am not your sister. Who am I? Answer: You. Your mother's daughters are you and your sisters. Take the sisters away and you are left.
You are married, and I am the brother of the person you married. Who am I to you? Answer: Your brother-in-law. A husband's or wife's brother is a brother-in-law.
You are married, and I am the mother of the person you married. Who am I to you? Answer: Your mother-in-law. A husband's or wife's mother is a mother-in-law.
Your father is my grandfather, you are not my parent, and I am a boy. Who am I to you? Answer: Your nephew. I must be the son of your brother or your sister.
Your mother is my sister, and I am a man. Who am I to you? Answer: Your uncle. Your mother's brother is your uncle.

Rhymes and old tales 30

A fairy's curse put me to sleep for a hundred years. Who am I? Answer: Sleeping Beauty. The princess is cursed to sleep for a hundred years before she is woken.
A princess dropped her golden ball into a well, and I fetched it for her. Who am I? Answer: The frog, in The Frog Prince. The frog who brings back the ball turns out to be a prince.
A shoemaker left out his leather at night, and by morning we had turned it into beautiful shoes. Who are we? Answer: The elves, in The Elves and the Shoemaker. The helpers who work unseen in the night are elves.
An acorn fell on my head, and I set off to tell the king that the sky was falling. Who am I? Answer: Henny Penny, also called Chicken Little. The chick mistakes a falling acorn for the falling sky.
Everyone called me ugly, until I saw my reflection and found I had grown into a swan. Who am I? Answer: The Ugly Duckling. He was a young swan all along, not a duckling.
I am a cat who wears boots, and my tricks won my poor master a fortune. Who am I? Answer: Puss in Boots. The cat uses trickery to gain wealth for his penniless master.
I am a tiny girl, and my adventures take me among toads and moles and to an injured swallow. Who am I? Answer: Thumbelina. Her name fits her size: she is the tiny girl of the tale.
I could not sleep a wink on twenty mattresses, because something small and hard lay at the bottom. Who am I? Answer: The princess, in The Princess and the Pea. A pea was put under twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds to test her.
I found some wheat and asked for help to plant it. Nobody would help, so I did all the work myself. Who am I? Answer: The Little Red Hen. The other farmyard animals refuse to help her make the bread.
I had to leave the ball before midnight, and I left a glass slipper behind. Who am I? Answer: Cinderella. The spell breaks at midnight, and the slipper is how she is found.
I jumped out of the oven and ran, shouting "Run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me!" Who am I? Answer: The Gingerbread Man. He is baked by an old woman, leaps from her oven and runs away.
I live at the top of a tower, and visitors call up to me to let down my hair. Who am I? Answer: Rapunzel. The best known line of the tale is "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair."
I set out with food for my grandmother, and a wolf got to her house before I did. Who am I? Answer: Little Red Riding Hood. In the tale the wolf reaches the grandmother's house first and waits in her bed.
I traded the family cow for a handful of beans and climbed what grew from them. Who am I? Answer: Jack, of the beanstalk. Jack swaps the cow for magic beans and climbs the beanstalk to a land above the clouds.
I walked into a house in the woods, ate the porridge, broke a chair and fell asleep in a bed. Who am I? Answer: Goldilocks. The house belongs to three bears, who come home and find her.
I was so sure of winning the race that I took a nap halfway, and a tortoise passed me. Who am I? Answer: The hare, in The Tortoise and the Hare. The hare leaves the tortoise far behind, then sleeps while it plods past.
I watched the sheep and shouted "Wolf!" for fun, so the villagers stopped believing me. Who am I? Answer: The boy who cried wolf. The shepherd boy tricks the villagers again and again with a false alarm.
I wore clothes of many colors, and my magic pipe led every rat out of the town. Who am I? Answer: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Pied means many-colored, and the piper was hired to lure the rats away.
Most historians doubt I ever lived, yet legend makes me a king of Britain whose father was Uther Pendragon and whose last rest was in Avalon. Who am I? Answer: King Arthur. Merlin, Excalibur and the Knights of the Round Table all belong to his story.
My name was also the name of an old children's game, thought to be peek-a-boo, and the animals in my rhyme bring their tails behind them. Who am I? Answer: Little Bo-Peep. The rhyme begins "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep".
My rhyme feeds me white bread and butter and asks how I shall cut it without a knife. Who am I? Answer: Little Tommy Tucker. The rhyme begins "Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper".
North American loggers told tall tales about my superhuman work before I ever appeared in print, and a blue ox named Babe goes where I go. Who am I? Answer: Paul Bunyan. In the tall tales he is a giant lumberjack with Babe the Blue Ox at his side.
The old stories call me a skilled archer who robbed the rich to give to the poor. Who am I? Answer: Robin Hood. The legend makes him an outlaw, an archer and a friend of the poor.
On my way to the fair I asked a pieman for a pie, with no money in my pocket. Who am I? Answer: Simple Simon. In the rhyme Simon asks the pieman for a pie without having any money.
Pictures show me as an egg, though my rhyme never says so, and I may have started out as a riddle. Who am I? Answer: Humpty Dumpty. He is usually drawn as an egg, and the rhyme was probably a riddle at first.
The queen found my cottage in the woods and heard me sing my own name as I hopped about my fire. Who am I? Answer: Rumpelstiltskin. In the tale he spins straw into gold, and the queen has three days to guess his name.
Two weavers sold me a suit that nobody could see, and a child said out loud that I was wearing nothing. Who am I? Answer: The emperor, in The Emperor's New Clothes. The swindlers pose as weavers, and only a child says what everyone can see.
We are a brother and sister, lost in the forest, who found a house made of bread, cake and sugar. Who are we? Answer: Hansel and Gretel. The house in the forest belongs to a witch.
We built our houses of straw, sticks and bricks, and only one house stood up to the wolf. Who are we? Answer: The three little pigs. The wolf blows down the straw house and the stick house but not the brick one.
We had to cross a bridge to reach the grass, and a troll lived underneath it. Who are we? Answer: The three billy goats Gruff. The three goats must outsmart the troll to cross to their feeding ground.

People from history 30

A strait carries my name, and it was I who gave the Pacific Ocean its name after sailing through. Who am I? Answer: Ferdinand Magellan. His crew finished the first voyage around the Earth in 1522, without him.
After I escaped from slavery, I went back again and again to lead others to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Who am I? Answer: Harriet Tubman. She made about 13 rescue missions.
At the age of five I could already play the keyboard and the violin, and I had begun to compose. Who am I? Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At that age he had also performed before European royalty.
I am a French chemist, and the way of treating milk called pasteurization carries my name. Who am I? Answer: Louis Pasteur. Pasteurization is named after him.
I am a painter of the Renaissance known also for my notebooks, and my drawing called the Vitruvian Man is famous around the world. Who am I? Answer: Leonardo da Vinci. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
I am an inventor known for the phonograph and for my work on the light bulb. Who am I? Answer: Thomas Edison. He also worked on electric power and early motion pictures.
I am best known for the theory of relativity, and I received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Who am I? Answer: Albert Einstein. He was a physicist born in Germany.
I am called the founder of modern nursing, and people knew me as the Lady with the Lamp. Who am I? Answer: Florence Nightingale. The name comes from her rounds of the wards at night.
I built the first reflecting telescope, and I showed that a prism splits white light into colors. Who am I? Answer: Isaac Newton. He also set out the laws of motion and of universal gravitation.
I carved the Pietà and David before I was 30, and at 71 I became the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Who am I? Answer: Michelangelo. He also painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, though he did not think of himself as a painter.
I charted and named the Gulf Stream, and I was the first postmaster general of the United States. Who am I? Answer: Benjamin Franklin. His inventions include the lightning rod and bifocals.
I helped an expedition of explorers meet the Native American peoples on their way to the Pacific, and statues were later raised in my memory. Who am I? Answer: Sacagawea. She traveled with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in her teens.
I led an army across the Delaware River in 1776, and the Electoral College later elected me unanimously, twice. Who am I? Answer: George Washington. He served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
I lost my sight and my hearing when I was 19 months old, and my first teacher was Anne Sullivan. Who am I? Answer: Helen Keller. Anne Sullivan came to her home in March 1887, a few months before she turned seven.
I lost my sight as a small child, and while I was still a student I worked out a code for reading by touch. Who am I? Answer: Louis Braille. The reading and writing system is named braille after him.
I named the element polonium after the country where I was born, and in 1906 I became the first woman professor at the University of Paris. Who am I? Answer: Marie Curie. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two.
I sailed for five years on a ship called the Beagle, and later I wrote about natural selection. Who am I? Answer: Charles Darwin. The voyage ran from 1831 to 1836.
I was born in Bonn, moved to Vienna at 21 to study with Haydn, and one of my best-loved piano pieces is called the Moonlight Sonata. Who am I? Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven. His hearing loss did not stop him from composing.
I was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, and I wrote Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Who am I? Answer: William Shakespeare. The four plays are tragedies of his.
I was the first president from the Republican Party, elected in 1860, and my portrait is on the penny. Who am I? Answer: Abraham Lincoln. He was the 16th president of the United States, and in 1863 he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
I wrote best-selling books about my flying, and I helped found the Ninety-Nines, an organization for women pilots. Who am I? Answer: Amelia Earhart. In 1932 she became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic without a stop.
My father was the poet Lord Byron, and I wrote long notes about a calculating machine that was never built. Who am I? Answer: Ada Lovelace. The machine was Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, and she is often considered the first computer programmer.
My first language was Greek, and I was the only ruler of my family known to have learned Egyptian, the language of the land I ruled. Who am I? Answer: Cleopatra. She was queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC.
My major work was the first printed version of the Bible, and a museum in my hometown of Mainz carries my name. Who am I? Answer: Johannes Gutenberg. He invented the movable-type printing press.
My mother and my wife were both deaf, and I refused to keep my own best-known invention in my study. Who am I? Answer: Alexander Graham Bell. He is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
My younger brother Theo supported me while I painted, and my colors grew brighter after I moved to Arles in the south of France. Who am I? Answer: Vincent van Gogh. He is the Dutch painter of The Starry Night.
On my first trip to space, in Gemini 8, I carried out the first docking of two spacecraft, and my second trip took me to the Moon. Who am I? Answer: Neil Armstrong. As commander of Apollo 11 in 1969 he became the first person to walk on the Moon.
Through a telescope of my own making I saw the phases of Venus, craters on the Moon and spots on the Sun. Who am I? Answer: Galileo Galilei. With the same telescope he saw the four largest moons of Jupiter.
We are two brothers who built our own small wind tunnel and tested gliders for three years before we added an engine. Who are we? Answer: The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur. Their first powered flights took place on December 17, 1903.
While I was a prisoner I told the stories of my 24 years of travel to a cellmate, who wrote them down. Who am I? Answer: Marco Polo. He was a merchant from Venice who traveled through Asia along the Silk Road.

Party and game roles 30

Every eye in the room is on me while I pull scarves from my sleeve. Who am I? Answer: The magician at the party. Scarves from a sleeve are a magic trick.
Everybody runs away from me, and the moment I touch you, you take my place. Who am I? Answer: The one who is It in a game of tag. In tag the chaser is called It, and a touch passes the job on.
I am blindfolded, and I swing a stick at a decorated pot full of candy. Who am I? Answer: The player hitting the piñata. A piñata is filled with candy and broken open at a celebration.
I am blindfolded, spun around and handed a paper tail. Who am I? Answer: The player whose turn it is at pin the tail. The blindfold and the spin come before pinning the tail.
I am not playing, yet I gasp, groan and cheer at every move. Who am I? Answer: A spectator. Someone who watches a game without playing is a spectator.
I am the only player on my team allowed to use my hands, and I guard a net. Who am I? Answer: The goalkeeper. In soccer only the goalkeeper may handle the ball.
I came second today, and I clapped for the one who beat me. Who am I? Answer: The runner-up. The one who finishes second is the runner-up.
I cover my eyes and count out loud, then I shout "Ready or not, here I come!" Who am I? Answer: The seeker in hide-and-seek. The seeker counts while the others hide.
I crouch behind home plate in a mask and a thick mitt. Who am I? Answer: The catcher. In baseball the catcher squats behind the batter.
I decide when the music stops, and I take one chair away after every round. Who am I? Answer: The one who runs musical chairs. Someone outside the circle controls the music and the chairs.
I draw numbered balls at random and call each one out while the players watch their cards. Who am I? Answer: The caller in a game of bingo. The host of a bingo game, who draws the balls, is known as the caller.
I have been tagged, so I stand frozen on the spot until a free player touches me. Who am I? Answer: A frozen player in freeze tag. In freeze tag a tagged player stays still until another player unfreezes them with a touch.
I have one minute to sketch a word without writing a single letter. Who am I? Answer: The drawer in a drawing game. In a drawing game the team guesses from the sketch alone.
I hold the pencil and the pad, and I am the one who knows who is winning. Who am I? Answer: The scorekeeper. The points are written down by the scorekeeper.
I may not say one word, so my hands and face must tell you the title. Who am I? Answer: The actor in a game of charades. Today the actor in charades usually mimes with no spoken words.
I opened the door, hung up the coats and planned every game tonight. Who am I? Answer: The host of the party. The one who invites and welcomes the guests is the host.
I run the last part of the race, and the stick I carry has passed through my teammates' hands first. Who am I? Answer: The last runner of a relay team. A relay baton is handed on until the final runner carries it home.
I shuffle the deck and hand out the cards before anyone can play. Who am I? Answer: The dealer. The player who gives out the cards is the dealer.
I stand at the front, and whatever I do, the whole line behind me does too. Who am I? Answer: The leader in follow the leader. The line copies the one at the front.
I stand at the very end of the rope, behind all my teammates, and dig in my heels. Who am I? Answer: The last puller on a tug of war team. Two teams pull on opposite ends of one rope.
I stand in the middle while two friends throw a ball over my head. Who am I? Answer: The one in the middle in keep-away. The middle player tries to catch the ball the other two keep away.
I stand on a small hill of dirt and throw toward a player with a bat. Who am I? Answer: The pitcher. In baseball the pitcher throws from the mound.
I think of one thing and may only answer yes or no until someone names it. Who am I? Answer: The answerer in a game of twenty questions. In twenty questions one player holds the secret and answers yes or no.
I wait on the bench in my uniform, ready to go in when a teammate comes off. Who am I? Answer: A substitute. A player who waits to replace another is a substitute.
I walk around the circle tapping heads and saying the same word, until I pick someone to chase me. Who am I? Answer: The picker in duck, duck, goose. The picker says duck at each head and goose at the one who must chase.
I watch a clock instead of the game, and I shout "Time!" when it runs out. Who am I? Answer: The timekeeper. The one with the stopwatch ends each turn.
I wear the armband, call the coin toss and speak for the whole team. Who am I? Answer: The team captain. The captain leads the team and meets the referee before the game.
I whisper a sentence into one ear and hear something very different come back at the end. Who am I? Answer: The starter in a game of telephone. In the whispering game the first player's sentence changes on its way down the line.
Today the cake has my name on it, and everyone waits for me to blow. Who am I? Answer: The birthday child. The candles are blown out by the one whose birthday it is.
You may only move when my orders begin with my name. Who am I? Answer: Simon, in a game of Simon says. Players obey only the orders that start with "Simon says".

How this list was compiled

Written by the Game Night Generator editors on October 3, 2026: 150 riddles whose answer is a person, in five sets of 30. The wording is the editors' own throughout, and nothing was copied from a riddle collection. Jobs: each riddle describes the work in plain words. Family: each riddle was checked by a script against a drawn family tree of four generations, with you as a girl and again as a boy, and it picks out one relative only. Rhymes and old tales: the people of nursery rhymes and folk tales old enough to belong to nobody; each riddle keeps to what the English Wikipedia article on the rhyme or tale (en.wikipedia.org) says, read on 2026-10-03. No character from a film, a show, a game or a comic is here. People from history: 30 people, none living, each riddle built from one or two sentences of the person's English Wikipedia article as it read on 2026-10-03 (en.wikipedia.org; text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license; the facts are restated in our words). Party and game roles: the people of a party and of traditional games; where a riddle leans on a rule, the rule was read the same day in the English Wikipedia article on the game. This site is not connected with Wikipedia. Licence: own work