Ball in Bag

A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?




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A fresh card pile is taken out of a box (the pile has 54 cards including 2 jokers). One joker is taken out and then the cards are shuffled for a good amount of times. After shuffling, two piles are made by dividing that one pile.



What is the possibility that one of the piles will have a card sequence from A to K in order?

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Find three whole, positive numbers that have the same answer when multiplied together as when added together.

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Jenifer and Jesica are having a conversation.

Jenifer: I am definitely not over 30.
Jesica: I am 28 and you are surely 5 years older to me at least.
Jenifer: No, you are at least 29.

You are told that both of them are lying throughout in the conversation. Can you find their respective ages?

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How many words can a pen with half refill write?

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It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

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What is red and smells like blue paint?

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What is next number in the pattern below:

131 517 192 123 ?

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What is the next number in this series?

4,12,84,3612....

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There are people and strange monkeys on this island, and you can not tell who is who (Edit: until you understand what they said - see below). They speak either only the truth or only lies.
Who are the following two guys?
A: B is a lying monkey. I am human.
B: A is telling the truth.

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The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

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