General Riddles

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

Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
A matchstick.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Complete the sequence: 49 61 51 63 53 65 55 ?
67 Explanation: Alternate numbers increase by 2. 49 become 51 then 53 and so on. Similarly, 61 becomes 63 and then 65.

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

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

A red house is made up of red bricks, a blue house is made up of blue bricks, a green house is made up of _______.

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