What is the next number in the series?

15 29 56 108 208 ?

Find the next number in the series

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

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

You need to climb ten stairs. At every stair, you can either take one step up or you can jump two steps up.

In how many different ways you can climb 10 stairs?

John is 45 years older than his son Jacob. If you find similarities between their ages, both of their ages contain prime numbers as the digits. Also, John's age is the reverse of Jacob's age.

Can you find their ages?

How can you make number one disappear by adding something to it?

John and Jill are madly in love with each other. To remind Jill of his pure love, John wants to send her a ring by post but in their country where burglary is quite prominent, any package that is not locked comes under the risk of being stolen for the contents.

John and Jill possess many padlocks but neither one of them has the other key.

Can you find a way John can send the ring to Jill safely?

There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

Seven Robbers robbed a bank and hide the coins in a lonely place.
They decide to divide the money equally the next morning. Two greedy robbers decided to cheat the others and reach the place at night. They equally divided the coins between them, one coin left. So they called another robber and then they decided to divide equally among the three. Sadly again one coin left. The same thing happened to the 4th 5th and the 6th robber.
However, when the 7th robber reached in the morning, they can divide the coins equally.

How many coins were there in total?

Which of the following words don't belong in the group and why?
CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS