Five fun riddles to beat the mid-week slump

Five fun riddles to beat the mid-week slump

Take a break and try these brainteasers to jump-start your sluggish brain. Read carefully, or you'll miss the clues!

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1.  A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that?

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2. My mother has 12 children, the second is the youngest. What is the name of her second child?

3. What can be touched but can't be seen? 

(Hint: this will be happening a lot more than usual during the month of February)

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4. There is a dead man in the middle of a field, nothing is around him and there are no footprints of any sort. There is an unopened package next to him. How did he die?

(Hint: As he approached the field he knew he was going to die)

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5. I can go up a chimney down and down a chimney down but can't go up a chimney up and down a chimney up. What am I?

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