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Figured I would post some riddles for people to work on over their idle yuletide moments.

Dont post your answers, send me a PM instead and I will post the winners after christmas.



1) What can be broken with just one word?

2)
The more there is of it, the less you see it. What is it?

3) What is dark but made by light?

4)
What is more invisible then an invisible man?

5)
What is nothing but holes tied to holes, yet is as strong as iron?

6)
What does a person have to know before teaching tricks to a dog?

7) What is easy to get into but hard to get out of ?

8)
What can you hold without using your hands?

9)
What has cities with no houses, rivers without water, and forests without trees?

10)
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it.

11)
What force and strength cannot get through, I with a gentle touch can do. And many in the street would stand, were I not a friend at hand. What am I?

12)
They call me a man, but I'll never have a wife. I was given a body, but not given life. They made me a mouth, but didn't give me breath. Water gives me life and sun brings me death. What am I?

13)
What falls but never breaks?

14) What breaks but never falls?
No googling allowed by the way.
So what are the answers Cat?

Dali
Well I only got your email, but what the heck...

Quote:1) What can be broken with just one word?

Silence

Quote:2) The more there is of it, the less you see it. What is it?

Darkness

Quote:3) What is dark but made by light?

A shadow

Quote:4) What is more invisible then an invisible man?

An invisible man's shadow (although your answer was funnier)

Quote:5) What is nothing but holes tied to holes, yet is as strong as iron?

A Chain

Quote:6) What does a person have to know before teaching tricks to a dog?


More than the dog. (Could have said "A dog" or "Tricks")

Quote:7) What is easy to get into but hard to get out of ?

trouble

Quote:8) What can you hold without using your hands?

Your breath

Quote:9) What has cities with no houses, rivers without water, and forests without trees?

A map

Quote:10) Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it, but almost nobody takes it.

Advice

Quote:11) Whatforce and strength cannot get through, I with a gentle touch can do.And many in the street would stand, were I not a friend at hand. Whatam I?

A key

Quote:12) Theycall me a man, but I'll never have a wife. I was given a body, but notgiven life. They made me a mouth, but didn't give me breath. Watergives me life and sun brings me death. What am I?

A snowman

Quote:13) What falls but never breaks?

Night

Quote:14) What breaks but never falls?

Day
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