Riddles: Brain Teasers

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I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are they?

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A stove, fire, and smoke.

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Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

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Counterfeit money.

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There is not wind enough to twirl
That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
Which dances as often as dance it can.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The sun.

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What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?

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A human does. As a baby, it crawls; in old age, uses a cane.

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Weight in my belly,
Trees on my back,
Nails in my ribs,
Feet do I lack.
What am I?

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A ship.

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To unravel me
You need a key.
No key that was made by locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I will understand.
What am I?

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A cipher.

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 What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?

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Nothing.

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You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?