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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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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.

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or I can be square. What am I?

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Fingernails.

When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?

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Charcoal

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

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NOON

Make the following equation correct by using only 1 line: 102 + 5 + 8 = 650

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102+548=650 (use the single line to make the + 4)

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

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Onion

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?

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Yesterday

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?

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Sam is Andrew's father.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?

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They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

I am a six letter word. I always follow you in light, but I disappear at night as I am afraid of darkness. Who am I?

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