General Riddles

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Man. He crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane as an old man.

What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?
Stop imagining.

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

I am slim and tall, Many find me desirable and appealing. They touch me and I give a false good feeling. Once I shine in splendor, But only once and then no more. For many I am "to die for". What am I?
A Cigarette

What can you catch but not throw?

What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel.

I'm the start of nothing and the end of sun and I'm also in the number one What am I?
The letter "N".

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