It needs to break before you can use it.
An egg.
Mary has four daughters, and every daughter has a brother. How many children does Mary have?
Five. All daughters share the same brother.
This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two more letters to it
Short.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
This is always in front of you, but you can’t see it.
The future
Three people said that James was their brother, but James said that he did not have any brothers.
How many brothers does James have?
None, the people are his sisters.
You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?
The letter “e”
A man crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat.
How?
The river was frozen.
You can never say ‘yes’ to this question.
Are you sleeping?
A boy buys one dozen eggs, but when he is going home, all but three break.
How many eggs are left unbroken?
Three.
What is the end of everything?
The letter “g”
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
In this one-story house everything is green: the walls, the floor, the roof, the furniture...
What color are the stairs?
There are no stairs, it is a one-story house.
If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
Two.
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Queue
A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, “I have no brothers or sisters, but that man’s father is my father’s son.”
Who is in the painting?
The man’s son.
A man was under the rain without an umbrella or a hat, but he never got a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald.
A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.”
How many daughters does he have?
Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead.
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Chicago
I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map