What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

There are two candles. Both will only burn exactly for an hour. How will you use these two candles to measure forty-five minutes?

what does the below math rebus puzzle mean?

Move four matchsticks to the below square to form three squares?

I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I?

You are confined in a room and given two metal rods. Out of these two rods, one is magnet and the other is the iron rod. They look starkly similar. You don't have any other metal object in the room.

How will you decide which one of those is magnet?

A solo dice game is played. In this game, upon each turn, a normal pair of dice is rolled and the score is calculated not by adding the numbers but multiplying them.

In a particular game, the score for the second roll is five more than what was achieved in the first roll. The score for the third roll is six less than what was completed in the second roll. The score for the fourth roll is eleven more than what was achieved in the third. The score for the fifth roll is eight less than what was completed in the fourth.

Can you calculate the score for each of the five throws?

I am 5 letters long.
My first two tell you who I am
My first 3 could be a medicine
My last three reversed could be a young boy.
My 4th, 3rd and 2nd in that order could be a fruit drink.
If you have me you may hang me round your neck
WHAT AM I ?

What is red and smells like blue paint?

I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?