A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers(8 of them) and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands nine parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other eight behind. Why did he want eight?

I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?

Solve the alphametic puzzle by replacing the alphabet with the number.

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If you toss a coin 10 times and it lands heads up every time, what are the chances it will land heads up if you toss it again?

If all the below statements are true

1. Gianni was either in Italy or France in 1997.
2. If Gianni did not kill Versace, Hilton must have killed him.
3. If Versace died of suffocation, then either Gianni killed him or Versace committed suicide.
4. If Gianni was in Italy in 1997, then Gianni did not kill Versace.
5. Versace died of suffocation, but he did not kill himself.

Who killed Versace and where was Gianni in 1997?

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Can you find the next number in the below sequence
3 , 7 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 17 ?

You have two strings whose only known property is that when you light one end of either string it takes exactly one hour to burn. The rate at which the strings will burn is completely random and each string is different. How do you measure 45 minutes?

What is the last thing you take off before bed?

He does not have any heart but still, He manages to live.
If you kill him, you will eventually die but yet you kill him.
He cannot run, who is He?