General Riddles

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

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

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

What is half of 4 plus 4?
6. Explanation: Half of 4 is 2 and then plus 4 is 6.

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

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

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

What can you catch but not throw?

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.

If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
An eye wetness.

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