The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

In a guessing game, five friends had to guess the exact numbers of apples in a covered basket.
Friends guessed 22, 24, 29, 33, and 38, but none of the guesses was correct. The guesses were off by 1, 8, 6, 3, and 8 (in random order).

Can you determine the number of apples in a basket from this information?

How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

Can you identify if it's a murder or a suicide ?

Your last good ping-pong ball fell into a narrow metal pipe embedded one foot deep in concrete.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, shoe laces, and plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

A network of 20 x 10 squares is given to you.

Can you calculate how many unique squares and rectangles can be formed combining two or more individual squares ?

I am a type of word that is spelt incorrectly or used differently, on purpose for humour. What am I?
Hint 1: You can find me in a joke.
Hint 2: I am a play on words.

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?