What has to be broken before you can use it?

What can you break without touching it?

What is always before you but can’t be seen?

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?

What has one eye but cannot see?

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?

What can be cracked, made, told, and played?

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

What has cities but no houses, forests, trees, and rivers but no water?