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1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
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An egg.
2. What gets wetter the more it dries?
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A towel.
3. What has many keys but cannot open a single lock?
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A piano.
4. What has a head and a tail but no body?
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A coin.
5. What can you catch but never throw?
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A cold.
6. What has one eye but cannot see?
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A needle.
7. What has hands but cannot clap?
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A clock.
8. What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?
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A postage stamp.
9. What has a neck but no head?
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A bottle.
10. What comes down but never goes up?
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Rain.
11. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
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A hole.
12. What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?
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A human: crawling as a baby, walking as an adult, and possibly using a cane later in life.
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13. What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
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Your name.
14. What has cities, roads, and rivers but no people, cars, or water?
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A map.
15. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
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The future.
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