What brings you down but never up?

A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?

Solve the equation in the image by looking at the pattern closely.

From a pack of 52 cards, I placed 4 cards on the table.

I will give you 4 clues about the cards:

Clue 1: Card on left cannot be greater than the card on the right.
Clue 2: Difference between the 1st card and 3rd card is 8.
Clue 3: There is no card of an ace.
Clue 4: There are no face cards (queen, king, jacks).
Clue 5: Difference between the 2nd card and 4th card is 7.

Identify four cards?

A thief enters a store and threatens the clerk, forcing her to open the safe. The clerk says, “The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you’ll never get the code.” But the thief manages to guess the code on his own. How did he do it?

Decode below three cipher riddles:

26 L of the A
7 D of the W
1000 Y in a M

Two batsman each on 94 runs. Seven runs needed to win in last 3 balls. Both make 100*. How?

John was piloting a plane behind a car but was never able to overtake it. Why?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?