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

(it's a funny riddle)

In a supermarket, there is an intelligent glass pane before a refrigerating unit. This glass pane allows cherries and apples through it but does not allow grapes and Orange to pass through it.

Can you identify the rule that the glass pane is following?

Decode below three cipher riddles:

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

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

When 99 is considered higher than 100?

You are given with the following sum. Each of the letters can be decoded as a digit. If we tell you that D = 5, then can you solve it entirely?

DONALD
+GERALD
=ROBERT

Can you count the number of blocks in the picture below?

I have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What am I?

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

What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?