Puzzles
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
A map
What has keys, but no locks; space, but no room; you can enter, but not go in?
A keyboard
What common English word is nine letters long and each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a valid word - from nine letters right down to a single letter?
The word is "startling" - startling, starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?
A secret
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Your left hand
What has a head and a tail that will never meet?
A coin
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps
What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great man, while the entire word signifies a great woman?
Heroine
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he's bankrupt. Why?
He's playing Monopoly
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A towel
I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me? What am I?
Fire
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
An echo
I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Few
You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?
All the people on the boat are married
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
A bank