Decode below three cipher riddles:

26 L of the A
7 D of the W
1000 Y in a M

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

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?

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

Find the hidden tiger in the given optical illusion ?

You visit a home for specially-abled children on the occasion of Christmas where you meet with 50 children. You have a box of chocolates containing 50 chocolates exactly.

What if you were asked to one chocolate to each child in a manner that one chocolate still remains in the box? Is it possible?

There are two beautiful yet remote islands in the South Pacific. The Islanders born on one island always tell the truth, and the Islanders from the other island always lie.
You are on one of the islands and meet three Islanders. You ask the first which island they are from in the most appropriate Polynesian tongue, and he indicates that the other two Islanders are from the same island. You ask the second Islander the same question, and he also indicates that the other two Islanders are from the same island.
Can you guess what the third Islander will answer to the same question?

You have two buckets of 11 liters and 6 litres.
How can you measure exactly 8 litres?

There are hundred red gems and hundred blue gems. The blue gems are priceless while the red gems equal wastage. You have two sacks one labeled Heads and the other Tails. You have to distribute the gems as you want in the two sacks. Then a coin will be flipped and you will be asked to pick up a gem randomly from the corresponding sacks.

How will you distribute the gems between the sacks so that the odds of picking a Blue gem are maximum?