Can you find out the missing number in the grid?

Can you find out a way through which you can make five squares out of the given figure by moving just six match sticks?

Find the next number in the series

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

Can you count the number of blocks in the picture below?

A thief is convicted in Mexico. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say the last sentence to determine how the penalty will be carried out. If the thief lies, he will be hanged, if he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. The thief tells the last sentence and to everybody's surprise some minutes later he is set free because the judge cannot determine his penalty. What did the thief say?

Different lights make me strange by changing me into different sizes. What am I?

what's the probability of getting a king or a queen from a pack of 52 cards?

How many times do a clock's hands overlap in a day ?

How is a fly different from a mosquito?

A number can be multiplied by multiple of nine
i.e 9 18 27 36 45 ...

and the resulting number consist of only one digit.

Can you identify the number ?