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?

The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We travelled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly." How can that be possible?

Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?

Find the missing number in the series below

13 -21 34 -55 ? -144

We have shown you a regular water barrel as below. Without using any measuring device can you check if the barrel is more than half-filled or less than half-filled?

Today, I celebrated my 32nd birthday but I was born in 1972.
How is this possible?

You are on a Boat in the mid of a river. You have two cigarettes with you. One of these two you have to light, how will you light the cigarette?

Can you find out the remainder when 3^300 is divided by 5?

In The 1st month of this year(the year 2013), I noticed that the date 13-1-13 (13 January 2013) is special.

This date is special as:

Date * Month = Year.

Can you figure out which year of this century has a maximum number of such dates?

There are 4 big houses. They are made from the materials: red marble, green marble, white marble and blue marble.

* Mrs Jennifer's house is somewhere to the left of the green marble one and the third one alone is white marble.
* Mrs Sharon owns a red marbles house and Mr Cruz does not live at either end, but lives somewhere to the right of the blue marbles house.
* Mr Danny lives in the fourth house, while the first house is not made from red marble.

Who lives where, and what is their house made from?