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The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps
What has keys but can't open locks?
Answer: A piano
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin
What has one eye but can't see?
Answer: A needle
What has hands but can't clap?
Answer: A clock
What runs around the yard without moving?
Answer: A fence
What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age

What has legs but doesn't walk?
Answer: A table
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
What kind of ball doesn't bounce?
Answer: A snowball
What has four fingers and a thumb but isn't alive?
Answer: A glove
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Answer: A hole
What has many teeth but can't bite?
Answer: A comb

What goes up and down but never moves?
Answer: A staircase
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter W
What has a bark but no bite?
Answer: A tree
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom
What has teeth but no mouth?
Answer: A saw
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
Answer: A glove

What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A potato
What has legs but never walks, and lives in a field?
Answer: A scarecrow
What has one key but opens no locks?
Answer: A piano
What has a spine but no bones?
Answer: A book
What has a tail and a head but no body?
Answer: A coin
What has an ear but cannot hear?
Answer: Corn

What has a bottom but no top?
Answer: A pair of pants
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow
What has a head, a tail, and four legs but no body?
Answer: A bed
What has a face but no head, hands but no arms?
Answer: A clock
What runs all around a field but never moves?
Answer: A fence
What has many keys but opens no locks?
Answer: A piano
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
What has no beginning, end, or middle?
Answer: A circle

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove
What has ears but cannot hear, and a mouth but cannot speak?
Answer: A cornstalk
What has an eye but no head?
Answer: A needle
What has a foot but no leg?
Answer: A snail
What has a thousand needles but cannot sew?
Answer: A porcupine
What has a head and a tail but no legs?
Answer: A snake
What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel
What has a face and two hands but no arms?
Answer: A clock

What has a roof but no house, and a bed but no sleep?
Answer: A doghouse

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