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.

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

Which room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

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

What is at the end of a rainbow?
The letter W.

If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.
10=3, 11=6, 12=6. Explanation: Number of letters in the spelling of each figure.

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