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A farmer has 10 sheep. All but 3 run away. How many are left?
3
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
A rooster lays an egg on top of a roof. Which way does the egg roll?
Nowhere—roosters don’t lay eggs!
If a red house is made of red bricks, a blue house is made of blue bricks, and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks, what is a greenhouse made of?
Glass
If you rearrange the letters in “LISTEN,” you get another word that means the same thing. What is it?
SILENT
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or boat. How is this possible?
The river was frozen.
A boy and a doctor are fishing. The boy is the doctor’s son, but the doctor is not the boy’s father. Who is the doctor?
The doctor is the boy’s mother.
A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife says she was sleeping. The cook says he was cooking breakfast. The gardener says he was picking vegetables. The maid says she was getting the mail. Who is the murderer?
The maid—Mail isn’t delivered on Sunday!
A plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
You don’t bury survivors! They are still alive.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?
A river.