What has to be broken before you can use it?

Can you find out the missing number in the grid?

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

A beggar on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the beggar finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?

Can you count the number of seconds in a year?

Clue: You need to bother about calculation.

Lifeless eyes on my smiling face and watch your child's sleeping place. In their dreams they hold me tight. What am I?

As shown in the image, the nine Dogs are square fenced. By constructing just two square fences can you make sure that two Dogs cannot meet each other without crossing the fence?

The centre of the third figure is empty. What digit should fit inside?

'Ferrari driver' easily beats the 'force driver' in a two-car race. How did Indian newspapers truthfully report so to look as a 'force drive' had outdone the 'Ferrari driver'? Think!!!

You and your two friends are working in a multinational company. How can you three find out the average salary of you all without disclosing your own salary to the other two?