A beggar on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the beggar finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?

A man had five children. He had $100 with him to give to his children. He decided to start with the youngest child and then give $2 more than each younger child to his next elder child.

For example, if he gives $x to the youngest child, he will give $(x+2) to the next one, $[(x+2) + 2] to the next one and so on.

Can you find out how much did the youngest one receive?

As easy as you can get into me, it is as hard to get out of me.

Do you know what I am?

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

There are three boxes of different sizes with three cupcakes inside each of the boxes in Christina's kitchen. At night her daughter wakes up and goes to the kitchen. She opens a box and eats all three cakes.

But in the morning Christina finds out that each box still had three cupcakes. How?

I’m orange, I wear a green hat and I sound like a parrot. What am I?

12345 a famous South Indian actor
567 is a path in jumbled form
8 & 10 are same letters
9 is one among the first six alphabets.
WHO AM I?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?