Today's Riddles

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Break me and I'm better, set me and I'm harder to break again. What am I?

13

I am a word of six letters. My first three letters refer to an automobile. My last three letters refer to a household animal. My first four letters is a fish. My whole is found in your room. What am I?

4

When I have one O, you need me to live. If you have me with two Os, I’ll kill you. What am I?

11

I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everyone. What am I?

3

If I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?

4

What keeps going back and forth but never leaves its place?

14

A prisoner is told: 'If you tell a lie, we will hang you. If you tell the truth, we will shoot you.' What can the prisoner say to save himself?

17

I'm a turnip, turned down. Concerned, but I don't carrot all. I am what I yam. What am I?

14

I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?

11

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

7

I can make a blind man see; I can save a ship at sea. I can show the irony, On that fateful roll of dice, That would place me, seated thrice, Onto those denying me. What am I that holds such power?

13

I cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be hard, cannot be smelt. I lie behind stars and under hills. I fill empty holes. I come first and follow after, end life and kill laughter. Who am I?

15

A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall. What does he weigh?

4

I quiet my owner's steps. I am soft to be held but dangerous unless my owner considers you friendly. What am I?

18

A bartender has a three pint glass and a five pint glass. A customer walks in and orders four pints of beer. Without a measuring cup but with an unlimited supply of beer how does he get four pints in either glass?