A man pushes his car up to a hotel and tells the owner he's bankrupt. Why?
Answer
He's playing Monopoly
In Monopoly, landing on a hotel you can't afford can bankrupt you, and one of the tokens is a car.
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I'm an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Hint: Spell the numbers out.
Answer
Seven
Remove the S from "seven" and you get "even."
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I'm taken before you're told, developed but never grown up, and I keep memories without remembering a thing. What am I?
Answer
A photo
Photos are taken (often before anyone says so), film photos are developed, and pictures hold memories without knowing anything.
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What has to be broken before you can use it?
Hint: It's great for breakfast.
Answer
An egg
You have to crack an egg open before you can cook it.
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Why didn't the skeleton go to the Halloween party?
Hint: Skeletons are all bones.
Answer
He had no body to go with
A skeleton has no body, and he also had nobody to go with.
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What do you call Santa's little helpers?
Hint: Grammar class can help.
Answer
Subordinate Clauses
It's a grammar pun: Santa Claus's helpers are "subordinate Clauses."
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The more you use me, the more you hate me, yet you set me again every single night. What am I?
Hint: I'm loudest when you're sleepiest.
Answer
An alarm clock
Everyone resents their alarm in the morning, then dutifully sets it again before bed.
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I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
Hint: Travelers used to fold me up.
Answer
A map
Maps show cities, forests and rivers, but only as drawings.
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What's orange and sounds like a parrot?
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A carrot
"Carrot" rhymes with "parrot," and carrots are orange.
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A rooster lays an egg right on the peak of a barn roof. Which side does it roll down?
Answer
Neither side. Roosters don't lay eggs.
Only hens lay eggs, so there's no egg to roll.
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There are three apples and you take away two. How many apples do you have?
Hint: Who's holding them?
Answer
Two
You took two apples, so you have two.
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The more I dry, the wetter I get. What am I?
Hint: Find me in the bathroom.
Answer
A towel
A towel gets wetter as it dries you off.
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