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The clues are fair. Your first assumption might not be.
Ten questions, with the answers explained. Try them in your head, then open each answer when you're ready.
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The more steps you take, the more of these you leave behind. What are they?
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Footprints
Taking steps in sand leaves footprints behind you.
QUESTION 2 / 10
What can you break just by speaking, without touching anything?
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Silence
Speaking breaks the silence. Nothing needs to shatter.
QUESTION 3 / 10
What fills a room, helps you see, and is not a piece of furniture?
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Light
Light can illuminate the room without filling it like furniture would.
QUESTION 4 / 10
What belongs to you, yet other people usually say it more than you do?
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Your name
Your name is yours, but other people often use it to address you.
QUESTION 5 / 10
What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not alive?
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A glove
A glove has spaces for a thumb and four fingers.
QUESTION 6 / 10
What can run through a valley, has a mouth, and never eats?
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A river
A river runs through the land and has a mouth where it flows into another body of water.
QUESTION 7 / 10
What has streets and cities, but no traffic or residents of its own?
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A map
A map represents places. The actual people and cars are elsewhere.
QUESTION 8 / 10
What gets shorter every time you sharpen it to write?
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A pencil
Sharpening removes wood and graphite, gradually shortening the pencil.
QUESTION 9 / 10
What can you catch from someone else but cannot throw back like a ball?
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A cold
You can catch a cold or another infection, but you cannot throw it back as an object.
QUESTION 10 / 10
What can be cracked, told, and shared, without needing a hammer?
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A joke
You can crack a joke, tell a joke, and share a joke.