John can fit six large chocolate boxes or nine small chocolate boxes into a carton. How many cartons will he require to put sixty-six chocolate boxes into?

Daniel walks into a movie theatre. While in the movie, he suddenly smiles delightfully. About a couple of minutes later, he seems shocked. He walks out of the theatre, goes to a bridge and jumps over the edge killing himself.

Why did he do it?

Note: Think Lateral

You are offered an opportunity to win a fortune. There are 100 precious black stones and 100 unworthy white stones. There are two different sacks labelled as "Heads" and "Tails". You can distribute the stones as you wish. Then a coin will be flipped. Then you will have to choose a stone from the corresponding sack. If you pick up a black stone, all the fortune of black stones is yours but if you pick up white, you get nothing.

How will you distribute the stones so that you can maximize your chances of winning?

All of Jacob's shoes are red except two.
All of Jacob's shoes are green except two.
All of Jacob's shoes are yellow except two.

How many shoes does Jacob have?

I know a number which is spelt in alphabetical order.
Do you?

There was a man he lives in a hotel each morning he presses the first floor button each evening if there is a person in the elevator he asks him to press the 10 floor button if there is no one in the elevator he takes the stairs why.

There is a dressing drawer which contains the following coloured socks in pairs: Purple, Magenta, Crimson, White, Yellow and Turquoise. Now, the socks are paired and each pair is together in the matching set. There is no light in the room and you open the drawer and pick up a pair. Then, without noticing any colour, you keep them back and pick them up again.

Can you calculate the probability that the pair of socks was Yellow both times?

Find the next number in the series

12, 20, 40, 72, 116, 172 ?

One animal is different from the rest in the picture, and the challenge for the readers is to spot it in 5 seconds.

If you drop a 15 kg iron bar and a 5 kg bag of cotton from a height of 50 meters which will reach the ground first?