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7. I have three letters. I read the same forward and backwards. I know you'll get the answer, I know you'll see. It's a word that is important to you and me. What word am I?

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and suffix to make two new words. SPOILS_______ION

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

Find the missing number: 6 13 25 51 101 ?
203 Explanation: 6x2+1=13 13x2-1=25 25x2+1=51 51x2-1=101 101x2+1=203

Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29. Where is the remaining dollar?
This is a nice nonsense. Each guest paid $9 because they gave $30 and they were given back $3. The manager got $25 and the difference ($2) has the bellboy. So it is nonsense to add the $2 to the $27, since the bellboy kept the $2.

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

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