John is on an island and there are three crates of fruit that have washed up in front of him. One crate contains only apples. One crate contains only oranges. The other crate contains both apples and oranges.

Each crate is labelled. One reads 'apples', one reads 'oranges', and one reads 'apples and oranges'. He know that NONE of the crates have been labeled correctly - they are all wrong.

If he can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can he label all of the crates correctly?

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

You need to remove two matchsticks to make the below equation true. Can you do it ?

A Shopkeeper collects 71 rupees in the form of 20 paisa and 25 paisa.
He collects a total of 324 coins.

Can you tell me how many number of 20-paisa and 25-paisa he got?

A seven-year-old kid challenged his classmates that he can make the number one disappear by adding something to it.

How can he do that?

Given that

(78)^9 = 6
And (69)^4 = 11

Can you find out

(99)^2 =?

(Note: This is Logical, not Mathematical)

There are two candles. Both will only burn exactly for an hour. How will you use these two candles to measure forty-five minutes?

What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and is served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?