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A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

When I am open I am U-shaped but when I am closed I am V-shaped. Who am I?
Umbrella

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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.

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

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