| Question | Answer |
| I get bigger when I eat but die weaker when I drink? | Fire
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I grow shorter as I grow older? | A candle
| When you buy me I’m black, when you use me, I’m red and when you throw me away I’m grey? | Charcoal
| Poor people have it, rich people need it and if you eat it you die? | Nothing
| What do you put in a box to make it lighter? | Holes
| What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? | Short
| What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years? | The letter M
| What can you catch but not throw? | A cold
| What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it? | Silence
| What has one eye but cannot see? | A needle
| Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening? | Man
| What gets broken without being held? | Promises
| Forward I am heavy but backwards I am not? | Ton
| What is always coming but never arrives? | Tomorrow
| What is as light as a feather but even the strongest man in the world can’t hold it for more than a minute? | Breath |
