What has to be broken before you can use it?

A woman named Maria was at the funeral of her mother. She met a nice young man that she had never seen before and after the service, they spent a bit of time together. Then she got busy and didn’t get his name or phone number before he left. She tried to find him, but no one knew who he was or how to contact him. A few weeks later, Maria’s older sister dies and the police suspect murder. Who killed the sister?

In a jungle where there are no street lights or any other artificial source of lights, I notice a black snake crossing the road.
How did I get sight of the snake?

You are playing as white and given four rooks to checkmate the black king in four moves with the following rules 1. You can place one rook every move and ensure the black king should be in check position.2. After four moves the black king should be in the checkmate position.

Can you count the number of quadrilaterals in the picture below?

How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

1 + 9 + 8 = ?
considering, 28 + 8 + 92 = 10

Most people think of me as money. But when they find me in the water, they won’t get any money out of me. What am I?

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?