Find the number of squares in the below-given picture.

There are nine letters in the below-given diagram. You have to form a nine-letter word using these letters.

Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

I am the first thing you need while camping.
I am always with the person named Marcos Valencia and Carrick.
But Pogba Zlatan and Rooney think I am wasteful and do not need me.
I am the second to the last thing to add when you are making a patch.

What am I?

An equation has been laid down using a few matchsticks. However, as you can see, the equation is not correct. Can you correct the equation if you are allowed to add or remove 5 matchsticks?

Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

Can you find out what is missing?

1 3 5
2 4 ?

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

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

Five teams were competing in cricket where they faced each other exactly once. After the tournament, the following is the point table.

DareDevils 6
SuperKings 5
Royals 4
Sunrisers 2
Riders ?

How many points did Riders end up with?

It is a six-letter word.
The first four letters are me.
The second and last letters are the same.
The fourth second and last letter is payment.

Who is it?