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    I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?

    Ответ:      a splinter

    I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?

    Ответ:      a hole

    What does a skeleton order at a restaurant?

    Ответ:      spare ribs

    I never was, am always to be, no one ever saw me, nor ever will, and yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
    What am I?


    Ответ:      tomorrow

    I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

    Ответ:      breath

    What kind of tie does a ghost wear to a formal party?

    Ответ:      a boo-tie

    I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?

    Ответ:      smoke

    What's a monster's favorite bean?

    Ответ:      a human bean

    Pronounced as one letter, and written with three, two letters there are, and two only in me.
    I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?


    Ответ:      an eye

    At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

    Ответ:      stars / dreams

    I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?

    Ответ:      a dictionary

    From the beginning of eternity to the end of time and space to the beginning of every end wnd the end of every place. What am I?

    Ответ:      the letter 'e'

    In a marble hall white as milk lined with skin as soft as silk within a fountain crystal-clear a golden apple doth appear.
    No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in to steal its gold.


    Ответ:      an egg

    It is said among my people that some things are improved by death. Tell me, what stinks while living but in death smells good?

    Ответ:      a pig

    All about, but cannot be seen, can be captured, cannot be held, no throat, but can be heard. What is it?

    Ответ:      the wind

    If you break me, I do not stop working. If you touch me, I may be snared. If you lose me, nothing will matter. What am I?

    Ответ:      one's heart

    If a man carried my burden, He would break his back. I am not rich, but I leave silver in my track. What am I?

    Ответ:      a snail

    Glittering points that downward thrust, sparkling spears that never rust. What is it?

    Ответ:      an icicle

    Weight in my belly, trees on my back, nails in my ribs, feet do I lack. What am I?

    Ответ:      a ship

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

    Ответ:      time

    My life can be measured in hours; I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick; fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I?

    Ответ:      a candle

    Lighter than what I'm made of, more of me is hidden than is seen. What am I?

    Ответ:      an iceberg

    To unravel me You need a key. No key that was made by locksmith's hand, but a key that only I will understand. What am I?

    Ответ:      a cipher

    I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry.
    The third goes away and never returns. What are they?


    Ответ:      a stove, fire, and smoke

    Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

    Ответ:      counterfeit money

    What does man love more than life? Fear more than death or mortal strife? What do the poor have, what the rich require,
    And what contented men desire? What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save, And all men carry to their graves?


    Ответ:      nothing

    What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?

    Ответ:      roasting meat on a spit

    When I am filled, I can point the way; when I am empty, nothing moves me. I have two skins, One without and one within. What am I?

    Ответ:      a glove

    As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
    Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?


    Ответ:      a stable

    I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.

    Ответ:      a cloud

    What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?

    Ответ:      a human does: as a baby, it crawls; in old age, uses a cane

    What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?

    Ответ:      wholesome

    I have hands that wave at you, Though I never say goodbye. It's cool for you to be with me, especially when I say, "HI." What am I?

    Ответ:      an electric fan

    You can have me but cannot hold me; Gain me and quickly lose me. If treated with care I can be great, and if betrayed I will break. What am I?

    Ответ:      trust

    My tines be long, my tines be short my tines end ere my first report. What am I?

    Ответ:      lightning


    My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before the clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

    Ответ:      a volcano

    I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?

    Ответ:      a joke

    What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

    Ответ:      a coat of paint

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