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" Enigma!"————"Set your trap."

1. My house is large, it has no door.

Answer. An egg.

2. My hen has laid among thorns.

Ans. A pineapple.

3. Lay the mat, and let us eat kunazi [a small fruit].

Ans. The stars.

4. He goes out walking, he comes into the house, he says, "Mother, take me on your back."

Ans. A bedstead.

5. The Sultan's bowl is open.

Ans. A well.

6. My children have turbans; he who has no turban is no child of mine.

Ans. A fuu [a sort of fruit which grows in a cup something like an acorn cup].

7. Open the red eye.

Ans. The sun.