You measure my life in hours
I serve you by expiring
I vanish faster when I am thin
and slower when I am thick
The wind is my energy
What am I?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month. What am I?

Spelt forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backwards I’m something you hate. What am I?

As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you?

I was born in a small house and I live in it all alone. No windows and no doors have been assigned to my house. The only way I can go out is by breaking through the walls of my house.

Who am I?

I am not a bull but I have horns.
I am not an ass but I have a pack saddle.
Wherever I go, I leave silver behind me.

Who am I?