What has hands, but can’t clap?

I am never scared but became petrified and can’t live in a house but would die to make one. What am I?

Can you solve this amazing hard number series problem?
7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 ?

Solve the alphametic puzzle by replacing the alphabet with the number.

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Given below is simple addition with a defined pattern pattern:
7 + 7 = 2
8 + 8 = 4
8 + 5 = 1
6 + 9 = 3
10 + 11 = 9

Can you analyze the pattern and find out the answer for:

4 + 9 = ?

Name a key which is hardest to turn.

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

Who has married many women but was never married?

When monkey rotate the gear, which mark will be hit 1 or 2 ?

A thief is convicted in Mexico. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say the last sentence to determine how the penalty will be carried out. If the thief lies, he will be hanged, if he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. The thief tells the last sentence and to everybody's surprise some minutes later he is set free because the judge cannot determine his penalty. What did the thief say?