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What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
What gets wet while drying?
A towel
What can you keep after giving to someone?
Your word
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
A barber
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
An echo
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Your shadow
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
The match
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Second place
I’m found in socks, scarves and mittens; and often in the paws of playful kittens. What am I?
Yarn
There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald.
You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?
All the people on the boat are married.
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Your name
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath
I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map
The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Fire
What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
A road
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day, and night