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

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You measure my life in hours
I serve you by expiring
I vanish faster when I am thin
and slower when I am thick
The wind is my energy
What am I?

I am beautiful, up in the sky. I am magical, yet I cannot fly. To people I bring luck, and to some people, riches. The boy at my end does whatever he wishes. What am I?

There was an aeroplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible?

What does man love more than life, and hate more than death or mortal strife; that which satisfied men want; the poor have, and the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?

How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

Can you find out the missing number?

? 4 5 3 5

9 5 7 10 3

You have a three-gallon and a five-gallon measuring device. You wish to measure out four gallons.

What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also made up of 3. Sometimes is written with 9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, and never is written with 5.

When a clock is observed, the hour hand is at a minute mark and the minutes hand is six minutes ahead of it.

When the clock is observed again after some time, the hour hand is precisely on a different minute mark and the minute hand is seven minutes ahead of it.

Can you calculate how much time has elapsed between the two observations?