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People use me to keep themselves clean. I get slimmer whenever I do some work. After my workout is over people need water. Who am I?
A bar of soap.

I look like a pearl. Clouds are my grandparents. I am very delicate. I die as soon as anybody touches me. Who am I?

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

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?

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

Complete the sentence using two words, which are anagrams. The man with the _______ wanted to have _______.
The man with the beard wanted to have bread.

A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

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

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