The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? 
Show Answer            Hide AnswerDarkness.

 

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerSteps

 

The person who buys me doesn't need me, the person who makes me doesn't want me, and the person who uses me can't appreciate me. What am I?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA coffin.

 

There are 100 coins scattered in a dark room. 90 have heads facing up and 10 are facing tails up. You cannot tell which coins are which. How do you sort the coins into two piles that contain the same number of tails up coins?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe piles don't need to be the same size, so make a pile of 10 coins and a pile of 90 coins, flip all of the ten coins and it is guaranteed that the piles have the same number of tails.

 

There are 3 stoves. A glass stove, a brick stove , and a wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which do you light up first?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerYou light the match first.

 

There are 3 switches downstairs, each corresponding to one of the light bulbs upstairs. How can you figure out which light switch goes to which light bulb by only making 1 trip upstairs?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerYou turn on one light bulb. Leave it on for a while. Then, turn that one off and turn another one on. Go upstairs. One light bulb will be cold, one will be warm, and one will be on.

 

There are 5 houses painted 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 people each drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. None of them have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. The Brit lives in the red house. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green homeowner drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man living in the center house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer. The German smokes prince. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water. Who owns the fish?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe German.

 

There are five people at a table and a pie sliced into 5 pieces. Each person has a piece of pie in front of them, yet the pie tin still has a piece of pie in it. How is this possible?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerOne of the people at the table has the pie tin with a piece of pie in it in front of them.

 

There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good. Who are they?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerWater, fire, earth, wind.

 

There are nine birds on the branch. You shoot the first and third bird. How many are left?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerNone. Because they all fly away!