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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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Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

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A coffin.

I am a 5 letter word. Take away my first and last letter, I will remain same. If you also take away my middle letter, I will remain same. Who am I?

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EMPTY

If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.

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10=3, 11=6, 12=6. Explanation: Number of letters in the spelling of each figure.

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

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Book

I am fair and shiny. People use me to find how hot they are. Some call me God. Who am I?

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Mercury

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

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Square.

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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Shadow

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.

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

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PORT

If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

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