An octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind?

Count the squares in the matchstick puzzle below?

What can you see in the middle of March and April that you can never see in any other month?

Two-person want to cross a river. Only one boat is present on the riverside that can carry only one person at a time.

However, they still manage to cross the river. How is it possible?

By moving exactly three matchsticks can you make the below equation true.It can be solved by 3 ways.

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

There was a competition where the contestants had to hold something. At the end of the event, the winner was a person who had no hands or feet. What was it that the contestants had to hold?

Solve the alphametic puzzle by replacing the alphabet with the number.

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The host of a game show, offers the guest a choice of three doors. Behind one is a expensive car, but behind the other two are goats.
After you have chosen one door, he reveals one of the other two doors behind which is a goat (he wouldn't reveal a car).

Now he gives you the chance to switch to the other unrevealed door or stay at your initial choice. You will then get what is behind that door.

You cannot hear the goats from behind the doors, or in any way know which door has the prize.

Should you stay, or switch, or doesn't it matter?

I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?