What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?

Find the next number in the following series:
6, 14, 26, 98, __?

The person who makes it has no need for it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

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

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary, you'd think nothing was wrong with it. Actually, nothing IS wrong with it. But it is not as ordinary as you might think. If you think about it for a bit, you will find out why it is truly so unusual. So what is it? What is so unordinary about this paragraph?

In a fruit store, there was a unique weighing machine that was made to weigh only cherries and strawberries as they were priced the same.

Other fruits like watermelons or mango had different machines as they were expensive.

A man successfully buys watermelons at the price of cherries. How?

Can you solve this amazing hard number series problem?
7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 ?

A blonde put eyeliner on her head. Why?

There is a unique number which when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6, we will get the new number that contains the same digits only.

Can you find that number?

By removing one matchstick and adding one matchstick, can you convert the word "ZOO" to an animal name?