Can you decipher the following common phrase?

T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E

It is a nine-letter word.
The exact opposite of the phrase "friendly and outgoing"
It contains the word "over".
It starts will a vowel.

What is it?

Nine marbles are arranged in the image below. Can you slide two marbles to form a square?

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?

Three friends decide to distribute the soda cans they had among them. When all of them had drunk four cans each, the total number of cans that remained was equal to the cans each one of them had after they had divided the cans.

Can you calculate the total number of cans before distribution?

Can you spot the hidden girl in the picture below?

What has a bottom at the top?

You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles, and 2 empty bowls. He then says, 'Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the marbles. Then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you will live, but if the marble is BLACK... you will die.'

How do you divide the marbles up so that you have the greatest probability of choosing a WHITE marble?

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?

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?