Who is generally closer to the kids, mom or dad?

(it's a funny riddle)

I have an apple tree , number of apple in this tree get doubles every week.

On 30th week , the tree gets completely filled with apples :-)



Can you tell me , on what week does my tree is half covered with apples ?

If I put in one bird per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two bird per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and birds do I have?

Decode below three cipher riddles:

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

What does the following represent?

N N N N N N N

A A A A A A A

C C C C C C C

One day, all the courtiers from Akbar's court were gathered in the assembly hall when one of them told the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night.
This shocked the Emperor to his core as the place where that courter stayed was the most secured in the kingdom. The Emperor thought that it is not at all possible for an outsider to enter into the courtier's house and steal the valuables. Only another courtier could commit this crime. He quickly called Birbal to identify the thief.
Birbal thought for a while and successfully solved the mystery by identifying the thief in just one statement.
What did Birbal say?

Transform the word THINK into BRAIN while changing only one letter at a time in a manner that each of the word in the process is a real word!!!

I never was there, I am always to be.
You have never ever seen me, not ever you will.
Yet I am the confidence of everyone.

Who Am I?

Below toothpicks/matchsticks indicate the group of fishes moving from west to east direction. Can you make them move from east to west by just moving three toothpicks/matchsticks?

Why is the Hole below a Lock?