You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

I am the largest in my family of fifty.
The youngest of our family lives separately from the rest of the family and so do I.
I am regarded as harsh and tough.
I am so large, you cut me in two equal halves,
each half would still be larger than the second largest member of the family.
Who am I?

Decode the below four famous ciphers:

8P of the SS
1M of the E
1S of the SS
60M in 1H

The horse jumps over the king.
Strangely there is absolutely no scratch on him.

Can anyone explain, how is this possible?

A famous swimmer can swim downstream in a lake in exactly 40 minutes with the lake current.
He can swim upstream in that lake in exactly 60 minutes against the lake current.
The length of the lake is 2 km.

How long he can cover the distance of one side at a still lake with no current?

Rebus Puzzle Definition: A rebus is an illusion device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
What does This Rebus Puzzle Identify?

Jack was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.

How many candles are they left with in the end ?

Can you find out a way through which you can make five squares out of the given figure by moving just six match sticks?

I am a seven-letter word but if you remove four of my letters I will have one left. What word am I?

How do you go from 98 to 720 using just one letter?