General Riddles

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

A container without hinges, lock or a key, yet a golden treasure lies inside me. What am I?

6 15 18 20 ? = FORTY
25. Explanation: Replace each number with the corresponding letters in the alphabet. 6 = F 15 = O 18 = R 20 = T 25 = Y

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

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

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.

What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again?
Yesterday

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

I can fill up an entire room and still not take up any space. Who am I?

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

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