If 1+9+8=1, what is 2+8+9?

While preparing the table for dinner, wife came up with an idea to tease his mathematician husband. She asked her husband to pick nine toothpicks and make ten without breaking any toothpick.

The husband was also smart and did it within seconds. How ?

Edward James went for tiger hunting.

It was not his lucky day.



He got six tigers without heads, nine tigers without the tail and eight cut in two halves.

How many tiger did he hunted ?

In a fruit store, there was a unique weighing machine that was made to weigh only cherries and strawberries as they were priced the same.

Other fruits like watermelons or mango had different machines as they were expensive.

A man successfully buys watermelons at the price of cherries. How?

In a family supper, a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one daughter-in-law, and one mother-in-law need to sit at a table.

There are only seven chairs available at the place. How many more chairs do they have to borrow so that everyone can sit down together for the suppers if everybody requires a separate chair?

Analyze and find the missing item in the sequence:
16, 06, 68, 88, __, 98

What number comes next in the series?

5 15 5 18 5 24 14 20 _

Can you find out what is missing?

1 3 5
2 4 ?

Hint: It's not six. Think out of the box.

Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?

What number does the below three word/phrase identify and why?
1. Deck
2. Year
3. Singing in the Rain