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You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.

Two handsome racers are having a race. One keeps lapping the other and the race never ends. What am I?

How can you express the number 100 using the same digit six times?

What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

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I am 3/8 of Tortoise, 2/5 of Onion and 2/6 of Tomato. Who am I?

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Toronto. Explanation:Tortoise has 8 letters and the first 3 letters are TOR. Onion has 5 letters and the first 2 letters are ON. Tomato has 6 letters and the first 2 letters are TO.

I am transparent. You can see and feel me, but you cannot hold me. I always take the shape of my container. Who am I?

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Water.

There are 17 pigeons sitting in a row on a wall. A boy shoots the fifth pigeon. How many pigeons remain?

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None. Explanation: They all fly away at the sound of the gunshot.

A grandfather, a father and 2 sons were having tea in the garden. But there are only 3 cups on the table. Justify how.

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Grandfather is the father of one son and he himself also has one son. That makes two fathers and two sons.

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth

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Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?

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No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?

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No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

I run around a house but I don't move. Who am I?

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Fence

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?

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2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

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