A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

I am the one who remains awake when you sleep. But I need to rest when you awake. Who Am I?

How can you spell "White of an egg" in one word?
Hint: I know you can spell coke, poke, and joke.

Take away the whole and some still remain. What is it?

Can you complete the sequence?

192, 021, 222, 324, 252, 627, 2__, 9__?

In the attached figure, you can see a chessboard and two rooks placed on the chess board. What you have to find is the number of squares that do not contain the rooks. How many are there?

Can you find out what is missing?

1 3 5
2 4 ?

Hint: It's not six. Think out of the box.

You have $100 with you and you have to buy 100 balls with it. 100 is the exact figure and you can't go below or above the numbers and you have to use the entire $100. If there is no kind of tax applied how many of each of the following balls will you be able to buy:

Green Balls costing $6
Yellow Balls costing $3
Black Balls costing $0.10

Now, how many of each must you buy to fulfil the condition given?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?