Riddles

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Anyone can play it but no one can win it. You can play by yourself or with as many people as you please and there are no rules as to how to play it. What is it?
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Round like an apple, deep like a cup. Yet all the king’s horses can’t pull it up. What is it?
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If two people know it, it is something. If more know it, it is nothing. What is it?
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It is shaped like an L. At the right angle it has 345 or 6 legs to hold it stable, has arms that hold the pain of men and they use it again and again. What is it?
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It has outbursts like a flower’s leaves but they are never green and don’t fall off in the winter. It shines like the color of dandylions and is as red as coals in the middle. What is it?
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It holds the words of men and catches their ideas and doubts. It speaks through a line and hears through a hole but never talks on its own. What is it?
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When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. What is it?
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As time passes, it steals something away.
Some support it, others want it to return what it had stolen.
No one has ever tried arresting it.What is it?
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This old one runs forever but never moves at all. He has not lungs nor throat but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?
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You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung. What is it?
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