Answer:
What five-letter word has six left when two letters are removed?
Six letters it contains. Take away the last and only twelve remains. What is the word?
I am of several different kinds, but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What am I?
I am rarely touched but often held. If you are smart you'll use me well. What am I?
I am a five letter word. If you remove my first letter I am a form of energy. Remove my first two and I am needed to live. Scramble the last three and you can drink me. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.