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If you need a night out, call one of these over to take the little ones off your hands for a while.
What sphinxes employ and players enjoy.
What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?
What is not a ball but yet a sphere, and holds all lands and people year after year?
In your fire you hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
I am a room that has a roof but no walls. What am I?