What is harder to catch the faster you run?

Can you think of a smallest +ve number such that if we shuffle the digits of the number, the new number becomes double the original number?

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

One fine day, an intellectual man came to the emperor's court with the aim of testing Birbal's wittiness. In order to do this, he challenged Birbal to answer his question and hence prove that he was as intelligent and witty as he was said to be.
He asked Birbal, Do you want me to ask one difficult question or a hundred easy ones?
Since both Akbar and Birbal had had a tough day and were eager to leave, Birbal hastily told the intellectual to ask him a single difficult question.
Intellectual: OK. Tell me what came first into the world, the egg or the chicken?
Of course, the chicken, Birbal replied with a smile.
This time with a note of victory in his voice, the intellectual asked Birbal, How will you demonstrate that?
What did Birbal say?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

Can you complete the sequence?

192, 021, 222, 324, 252, 627, 2__, 9__?

Identify the hidden meaning behind this picture?

What does this rebus riddle means ?

There is a shop where written:
Buy 1 for $1
10 for $2
100 for $3
I needed 999 and still only paid $3. How could this be financially viable for the shop-keeper?

A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you." What did the prisoner say to save himself?