Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

A thief enters a store and threatens the clerk, forcing her to open the safe. The clerk says, “The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you’ll never get the code.” But the thief manages to guess the code on his own. How did he do it?

You are provided with a grid (as shown in the picture). Can you fill the squares with numbers 1-8 in a manner that none of the two consecutive numbers are placed next to each other in any direction (vertically, horizontally or diagonally?)

It is a six-letter word.
The first four letters are me.
The second and last letters are the same.
The fourth second and last letter is payment.

Who is it?

I have nine bottles of wine and one of the nine bottles is poisoned.
I need to find the poisoned bottle with two facts
(1) Poison is deadly, only a sip will cost death
(2) I have two mice to do so.

How should I do it?

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?

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?

Can you find the missing number in the third row?
35 20 14
27 12 18
5 2 ?

Every words stands for unique digit that makes the arithmetic equation true

SEVEN + SEVEN + SIX = TWENTY.

What are the digits ?