If you gently squeeze me with your hands, I'll get hard like a potato.
Can you guess what I am?
(This is my translation of a famous riddle.)
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You are, perhaps,
snow, or a snowball.
Loose packing snow is not particularly solid, but squeezed gently it compresses nicely into a firm snowball.
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2$\begingroup$ Wow, this is the correct answer. Adults are notoriously bad at cracking this puzzle :) $\endgroup$– MitsukoCommented Jan 22, 2020 at 6:53
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2$\begingroup$ Discarding any notoriously bad possible answers as being, well, notorious, helps narrow in on better and more likely answers. :) $\endgroup$– Rubio ♦Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 6:55
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$\begingroup$ I don't want to eat the OP's potatoes if they are that hard. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 23:00
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$\begingroup$ And like a potato if you put them in an oven they get 'softer' $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 23, 2020 at 1:48