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RIDDLES

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       What can you catch but can’t throw?                    The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am
          A cold                                              I?
       If you drop me, I crack. If you smile at me, I smile      Footsteps
       back. What am I?                                       Where does today come before yesterday?
          A mirror                                               In the dictionary
       What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees,   What has many rings but no fingers?
       and water but no fish?                                    A telephone
          A map                                               If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me,
       What kind of lion never roars?                         you haven’t kept me. What am I?
          A dandelion                                            A secret
       What do you call a bear with no teeth?                 What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
          A gummy bear                                           A staircase
       I don’t cry when you cut me, but you do. What am I?    Which month of the year has 28 days?
          An onion                                               All of them
       What has branches, but doesn’t have a trunk, leaves,   What needs to be broken before you can use it?
       or fruit?                                                 An egg
          A bank                                              What has a neck but doesn’t have a head?
       What word begins with E, ends with E, but only has        A bottle
       one letter?                                            How do you spell “cow” with thirteen letters?
          An envelope                                            See O Double You (C–O–W = 13 letters spoken)
       I am always in front of you, but you can’t see me.     What goes up but never comes down?
       What am I?                                                Your age
          The future                                          David’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and
       I can’t talk, but I always reply when someone speaks.  what?
       What am I?                                                David
          An echo                                             I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become
       What can be touched but can’t be seen?                 even. What am I?
          Someone’s heart or feelings                            Seven (remove "s" = even)
       What’s tall when it’s young but short when it’s old?   The person who makes it doesn’t need it. The person
          A candle                                            who buys it doesn’t use it. The person who uses it
       What gets wet while it’s drying?                       doesn’t see it or feel it. What is it?
          A towel                                                A coffin
       It belongs to you, but other people use it more than   I have four fingers and a thumb, but I’m not alive. What
       you do. What is it?                                    am I?
          Your name                                              A glove
       What two things can you never eat before breakfast?    What kind of room has no doors, walls, or windows?
          Lunch and dinner                                       A mushroom
       What is orange, wears a green hat, and sounds like a   How many seconds are in a year?
       parrot?                                                   12 (Second of January, Second of February, etc.)
          A carrot                                            What is the only word in the dictionary that is spelled
       What has hands but can’t clap?                         wrong?
          A clock                                                Wrong (It’s literally spelled “wrong”)
       I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What am I?    Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters
                                                              to it?
          A kangaroo
       I have many teeth but I can’t bite. What am I?            Short
                                                              What can you break without touching it?
          A comb                                                 A promise
       I have a head and a tail, but I don’t have a body. What  Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it,
       am I?                                                  you die. What is it?
          A coin
                                                                 Nothing



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