What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

Akbar summoned Birbal out of anger.
He told him that he will have to face death.
He asked him to make a statement and if the statement is true he will be buried alive and if the statement is false, he will be thrown at lions.
After hearing Birbal’s statement, Akbar could do nothing but smile.
He gave him 5 gold bars and let him go.

What did Birbal say?

Most people think of me as money. But when they find me in the water, they won’t get any money out of me. What am I?

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.
If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

How does the man do it?

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 10 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 20 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?

Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

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

What comes
Once in a Year
Twice in a Month
4 times in a Week
6 times in a Day

What can run but never walk, have a mouth that never speaks, have a head that never weeps, and have a bed but never sleeps?