1. what can run but never walks,
has a mouth but never talks,
has a bed but never sleeps,
has a head but never weeps?
2. no sooner spoken than broken.
3. feed me and i live
give me to drink and i die.
4. i pass before the sun yet make no shadow.
5. i'm light as a feather, yet no man can hold me for long.
6. if you break me, i'll not stop working.
if you can touch me, my work is done.
if you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after.
7. i can go up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up.
8. we are very little creatures,
all of us have different features,
one of us in glass is set,
one of us you'll find in jet,
another you may see in tin,
and the fourth is boxed within,
if the fifth you should pursue,
it will never fly from you.
9. where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees, and cities without houses?
10. i have a hundred legs but cannot stand,
a long neck but no head,
and i eat the maids life.
11. cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
it lies behind the stars and beneath the hills,
it ends life and kills laughter.
12. i can run but cannot walk,
i lack arms but i have hands,
i have no head, only a face.
13. what builds up mountains, tears down castles,
makes some blind, and helps others to see?
14. what lives in winter, dies in summer and grows with its roots upward?
15. what has eyes yet cannot see?
(there are four answers)
16. in a tunnel of darkness lies a steel beast. it can only attack when pulled back. what is it?
17. i am emeralds and diamonds lost by the moon,
found by the sun and picked up soon.
