You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

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?

How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

If a shopkeeper can only place the weights on one side of the common balance. For example, if he has weights 1 and 3 then he can measure 1, 3 and 4 only. Now the question is how many minimum weights and names of the weights you will need to measure all weights from 1 to 1000? This is a fairly simple problem and very easy to prove also.

Imagine you are in a room with no windows or doors. How will you get out?

You’re out on the water and see a boat filled with people. You look away for a second and look back again, but this time you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why? Hint: The boat did not sink.

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you scored 125 marks on the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong?

What will be the best approach to finding all the prime numbers less than 75 that leave an odd reminder when we divide them with 5?

Replace the question mark with the number below given a simple math problem.

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?