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?

Find three whole, positive numbers that have the same answer when multiplied together as when added together.

Can you name an animal whose killing cannot be performed without spilling your own blood?

What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

The following four words might seem abrupt to you. But you can make them meaningful by just adding vowels.
RDSH
GGPLNT
TMT
NN

Hint: All of them are vegetables.

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

There’s a girl who has a large family. She has an equal amount of brothers and sisters, but each brother only has half as many brothers and sisters. What’s the correct amount of brothers and sisters?

An equation has been laid down using a few matchsticks. However, as you can see, the equation is not correct. Can you correct the equation if you are allowed to add or remove 5 matchsticks?

How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?