An artist while painting a scenic beauty, decides to paint three layers of blue colour on the sky.

Which layer will go on the first?

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

I look flat, but I am deep. Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but the food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry, and turbulent. I have no heart but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have. What am I?

By moving exactly three matchsticks can you make the below equation true.It can be solved by 3 ways.

Most people think of me as money. But when they find me in the water, they won’t get any money out of me. What am I?

There was a blind man. He had four socks in his drawer either black or white. He opened it and took out two socks. Now the probability that it was a pair of white socks is 1/2.

Can you find out the probability that he had taken out a pair of black socks ?

Find the next number in the series.
1 10 24 43 67 ?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be office.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

A finger goes in me. You fiddle with me when you're bored. The best man always has me first. What am I?

Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?