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?

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

If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?

The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member. Find how much younger is the new member ?

I travel all around the world but always stay in the corner. What am I?

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

I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is to find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be the 'office'.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing.

I look at you, you look at me I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?