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It Has a Face but No Eyes, and Speaks in Numbers - What Is It?
Has a face but no eyes, and speaks in numbers — what?
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What is the answer to the 'face but no eyes' riddle?
The answer is a clock. A clock has a face (the dial) but no eyes, and it 'speaks' only through the numbers that mark the hours.
Why does a clock have a face?
The flat front of a clock is called its 'face' or dial - it's where the numbers and hands sit. It has no eyes, yet it tells the time in numbers.
Is this a hard riddle?
It's a medium-difficulty classic object riddle. The clue about 'numbers' usually points people toward a clock once they think it through.