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Riddle Time
What is always yours, but mostly used by others?
“You received it at birth.”
Answer
Your name
Riddle Time
I am meant to make you laugh, but I break as soon as I am explained.
“My power lies in surprise.”
Answer
A joke
Riddle Time
I eat you alive, yet you feed me willingly every day.
“I give you temporary pleasure but take more than I give.”
Answer
An addiction
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I am a burden that lightens when you share me, but I die when everyone knows me.
“I am a truth known only to a few.”
Answer
A secret
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I am your window to the world, but also the world's window into you.
“Where many share their lives online.”
Answer
Social media
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I can promise the world, but often come with a heap of unexpected problems and a budget that never holds.
“This project often involves hammers, paint, and a large dose of patience from your partner.”
Answer
A renovation
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I am a language without a voice, built from just two characters. My history traveled over sea and land before the internet existed.
“Think of old ways to send messages over long distances.”
Answer
Morse code
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It always points in the same direction, but has no legs of its own. What is it?
“It's used to find your way.”
Answer
A compass
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Without me, letters are just a silent row.
“Think about how letters sound together.”
Answer
A vowel
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It shows where you last stopped, but never reads itself.
“It helps you save a place.”
Answer
A bookmark
Riddle Time
It rushes silently through wires, brings machines to life, but is never seen and has no voice.
“Think of an invisible power.”
Answer
Electricity
Riddle Time
I make the tiniest things big so you can see them. What am I?
“Think of how the very smallest things become large and visible.”
Answer
A microscope
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It catches light to show you the way in the dark, but it neither shines itself nor shows your own image.
“Its job is to send light back to its source.”
Answer
A reflector
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Without you asking, it visits land and sea alternately, moving countless liters of water back and forth. What is it?
“It's the movement of the ocean.”
Answer
The tide
Riddle Time
I can be built with stone, steel, or even words, and I connect what is separate.
“Don't just think of something physical that crosses water.”
Answer
A bridge
Riddle Time
What keeps you on Earth without touching you, but weakens the further away you get?
“It's an invisible force.”
Answer
Gravity
Riddle Time
From a quiet thought to a loud exclamation, I change the tone without having a voice. What am I?
“Think about how you end a sentence when you want to show surprise or joy.”
Answer
An exclamation mark
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I have no door but an entrance, and I can be both short and long.
“Think of a passage that goes straight through something solid, like a mountain.”
Answer
A tunnel
Riddle Time
What rises high without legs, but never falls and gets hurt?
“Think of what comes from a fire, but is light as air.”
Answer
Smoke
Riddle Time
It has a beginning and an end, but it never moves. It is dark inside, but not without light.
“It goes straight through, but has no will of its own.”
Answer
A tunnel