Question

I am tall when young and short when I am old. What am I?
A tree

Answer 1

Answer:

the answer is candle ..

Answer 2

I am a Pencil.

Explanation:

• Riddles are word games that test our intelligence and presence of mind. They are written in such a manner that the reader gets totally confused.  

• The reader then starts a guessing game. But the answer is very wittily embedded in the question itself. In the given sentence: the clue lies in the antithesis of the pair of words 'tall ' and 'short' , 'young ' and 'old'.

• A pencil remains tall initially when it is young. With use it is sharpened and slowly loses its length. Thus with age it shortens just as mentioned in the question.

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