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What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

✨ Silence
L2 · impossible
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What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?

Hint: What is that which goes with a carriage…

✨ Noise
L2 · what am i
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What is the color of the vest's sleeves ?

What is the color of the vest’s sleeves ? …

✨ Vests don't have sleeves
L1 · joke
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What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?

What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?

✨ Nothing. A dollar and a half is the same as thirty five-cents (nickels). But not the same as thirty-five cents
L3 · brain teaser
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What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?

What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his cattle?

Hint: What is the difference between a school boy studying and a farmer watching his c…

✨ One is stocking his mind, while the other is minding his stock
L2 · joke
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What is the easiest way to throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after tr

What is the easiest way to throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance?

Hint: What is the easiest way to throw a ball…

✨ Toss it in the air
L2 · brain teaser
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What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1,000?

What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1,000?

Hint: What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/1…

✨ One hundred - work backwards and you will understand
L3 · math
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What kind of can never needs a can-opener?

What kind of can never needs a can-opener?

✨ A pelican!
L3 · joke
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What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

✨ A coat of paint
L3 · brain teaser
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What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

✨ Tombstones
L3 · joke
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What kind of "skate" can travel at high speeds on land, glide gracefully across the winter ice, fly through the air at a park, but has absolutely no brains of its own?

What kind of “skate” can travel at high speeds on land, glide gracefully across the winter ice, fly through the air at a park, but has absolutely no brains of its own?

✨ Any kind of skate (roller skates, ice skates, or a skateboard)
L3 · skate
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What kind of storm is always in a rush?

What kind of storm is always in a rush?

✨ A hurry- cane
L3 · joke
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What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?

What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?

✨ The sea
L2 · what am i
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What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

Hint: What object has keys that open no locks…

✨ A computer keyboard
L3 · brain teaser
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What part of the turkey has the most feathers?

What part of the turkey has the most feathers?

✨ The outside
L2 · joke
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What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the

What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?

Hint: What question can someone ask all day long…

✨ “What time is it?“
L3 · brain teaser
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What relation would your father's sister's sister-in-law be to you?

What relation would your father’s sister’s sister-in-law be to you?

✨ This person would be your mother
L3 · logic
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What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

What’s the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

✨ A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells
L3 · joke
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What's the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

What’s the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

✨ One is hard up, while the other is soft down
L3 · joke
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