Birbal was jester, counsellor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.
The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness,
and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.
One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor.
"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."
Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal.
It was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it.
How could this be?

Find the next number in the series

12, 20, 40, 72, 116, 172 ?

What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?

When monkey rotate the gear, which mark will be hit 1 or 2 ?

It's a protector.
It sits on a bridge.
One individual can see directly through it, while others wonder what it hides.

What is it?

John killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

Can you complete the sequence?

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

How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

There are two guys standing face to face in a room. On a wall, there is a clock. One of those is a prophet. He tells the other guy that he will be stabbed in the back in five minutes.

Shocked to hear that, the other guy stares at the clock. Just after the five minutes, he is stabbed on the back. Can you tell what happened?

An ant is travelling on a 1-meter-long rope at 1 cm/second but also the entire rope is being stretched by an extra 1 meter/second. Is it possible for the ant to reach at the end of the rope?