There was a strange boy who was born before his father. How can this be possible?

In the given figure, you can see that four match sticks are used to form a square. Can you form five squares by using six matches?

What does below Rebus say?

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What's a single-digit number with no value?

One day, all the courtiers from Akbar's court were gathered in the assembly hall when one of them told the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night.
This shocked the Emperor to his core as the place where that courter stayed was the most secured in the kingdom. The Emperor thought that it is not at all possible for an outsider to enter into the courtier's house and steal the valuables. Only another courtier could commit this crime. He quickly called Birbal to identify the thief.
Birbal thought for a while and successfully solved the mystery by identifying the thief in just one statement.
What did Birbal say?

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?

There are 2 sand hourglasses.

The small one can measure 5 hours and the large one can measure 7 hours.

How can we measure 16 hours with 2 sand hourglasses running together ?

Who is generally closer to the kids, mom or dad?

(it's a funny riddle)

I have a hole in my back and legs I lack.
I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth.
What am I?

A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?