You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer, how can you boil the egg for only two minutes?

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

Let's play a word game. Following are some meaningless words that can be completed by adding random letters on either side of the word.

For example, the word "rdo" can be formed into "pardon".

Using the same technique, can you complete the given words?
ecalc
airb
rinci
tibac
uidel
gorit
igna
eyho

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

What does Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?

What can you catch but never throw?

I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?

I know a nine-letter word having only one vowel.
Do you ?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary, you'd think nothing was wrong with it. Actually, nothing IS wrong with it. But it is not as ordinary as you might think. If you think about it for a bit, you will find out why it is truly so unusual. So what is it? What is so unordinary about this paragraph?