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

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Which English verb becomes past tense just by rearranging the letters?

What number should come in place of the question mark below?

Can you think of a smallest +ve number such that if we shuffle the digits of the number, the new number becomes double the original number?

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

When we see 2 but call 10?

An octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind?

What will you call your mother's brother's brother-in-law?

A thief is convicted in Mexico. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say the last sentence to determine how the penalty will be carried out. If the thief lies, he will be hanged, if he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. The thief tells the last sentence and to everybody's surprise some minutes later he is set free because the judge cannot determine his penalty. What did the thief say?

Can you make numbers like 24, using numbers 3,3,7 & 7 with any arithmetic operator?