I Look Like a Pearl
I look like a pearl,
Clouds are my ancestors,
I am very delicate,
I die when I’m touched.
What am I?
Dew.
Between High Natural Masses
I am a path situated between high natural masses. Remove my first letter and you have a path situated between man-made masses.
What am I?
Valley / Alley
You’ll Have Me At Night
You’ll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train
Supper. You eat supper at night, and removing the first letter leaves upper. Thanks to Dude for figuring it out.
Shorter Than My Four Siblings
Shorter than my four siblings,
but easily the strongest,
sometimes I wear a funny hat.
A Thumb.
By Sef Daystrom
What Every Man Has and Gives To Their Wife
What does every man have, some longer or shorter than others and they give it to their wife when they get married?
Note: This may not be appropriate for younger ages.
A last name.
Turn Into a Car, Building or Robot
I can turn into a car, building or even a robot. I’m man made and my siblings and I outnumber you sixty-two to one. My name means, “Play well” in my creator’s native tongue. What am I?
Legos. They can be turned into all sorts of things, including cars, building and robots. If you divided up all the legos ever made, each person on the planet would get 62. Lego is based on the Danish phrase leg godt which means, “play well”.
Five Items In a Tennis Court
We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court. What are we?
The vowels. The phrase “a tennis court” contains all five vowels sorted in alphabetic order: a, e, i, o, u.
What Once Was Red Is Black Instead
Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead. What am I?
A match. You tear a match out of a matchbook and scratch the head to light it, then the red tip turns black from the flame.
This is an exact duplicate of Tear One Off and Scratch My Head but I’m leaving it to avoid broken links.