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When you buy me I am black in color. When you use me I am red and when you discard me I am grey in color. Who am I?
Charcoal

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

Fill in the blanks. Both words are anagrams of each other. This year the top 10 horse ______ took place in this huge ground measuring two _______.
races, acres

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

Decode the following message: AENDFNDFNNIRDERDESIIEIIEAEND
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Explanation: Write the alphabets in four rows for example:

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

Complete the sequence: 4, 7, 15, 29, 59, 117 ?
235 Explanation: 4+3=7 7+4x2=15 15+7x2=29 29+15x2=59 59+29x2=117 117+59x2=235

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