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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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Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

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Meet

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 am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

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DOZENS

The diameter of a hole is 4ft 5in. How much dirt does it contain?

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A hole has no dirt in it. It contains only air.

When I get multiplied by any number the sum of the figures in the product is always me. Who I am?

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9 e.g. 9 X 6 = 54; 5 + 4= 9

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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A palm

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?

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A cat (9 lives).

If six thousand six hundred and six dollar is written as $6,606, then write eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven dollars.

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$12,111.

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.

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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