General Riddles

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

Fill in the sequence: prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?
sptmbr Explanation:Name of the months after removing the vowels - APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER.

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.

I come form North, East, West and South. I give you lots of information either verbally or textually. Who am I?

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

I am made up of the head of a lamb, middle of a pig, hind of a buffalo and the tail of a dragon. Who am I?

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

How can you lift a hippopotamus with one hand?
You won't find a hippo having one hand!

A shepherd has 18 goats. All but 6 die. How many are left?
6 of course!

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
The letter m.

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