What is harder to catch the faster you run?

A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?

What is the next number in this series?

4,12,84,3612....

If you read clockwise, you can form a word by inserting three missing letters in the picture given below. Can you do it?

Which three-digit number, made of consecutive digits, like 567, is 2 less than a cube and 2 more than a square?

Count the squares in the matchstick puzzle below?

I got a bee but no honey.
got an eye but am still blind.
got a sea but no water.
got a tea but no coffee.
got a why but no answer.

What Am I?

If we add four times the age of John four years from now to five times his age five years from now we get ten times his current age.

How old will John be two years from now?

A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man escape?

In the image below, can you find the value of an angle(y)