HardClassic
"I am the daughter of water yet when water touches me I die. What am I?"
Answer
Salt
Explanation
Salt is born from seawater — it is what remains when the sea evaporates, so water is its mother. Yet drop salt back into water and it dissolves and vanishes. Fire and ice are the most common wrong guesses.
This is a hard riddle in the Classic category — Time-honoured riddles passed down through generations.
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