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Riddles

• The more you take the more you leave behind. What are they?
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• On a clock, how many times do the hands cross each other in a day?
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• How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
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• In a year there are 12 months. 7 months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
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• How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the Ark?
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• What word when pronounced wrong is right but right is wrong?
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• What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
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• You are lost and alone in the woods. You stumble across an old cabin, and decide to stay there for the night. You want some heat and light, but the only things you find in the cabin are a candle, an oil lamp and a wood burning stove. You look in your pocket but you only have one match left. What do you light first?
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• What is the only cheese that is made backwards?
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• Four men were in a boat on a lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet. Why?
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• Forward I am heavy, backwards I am not. What am I?
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• I am a 6-letter word:
  - Letters 6-5-2 spell out a drink.
  - Letters 4-5-2-3 spell out a fruit.
  - Letters 1-2-6 spell out a pet.
  - Letters 3-2-6 spell out a pest, which often gets eaten by 1-2-6.
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• What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
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