If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

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?

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

Can you convert the number zero(0) into a positive number using just one mathematical operator ?

John has eleven friends. He has a bowl containing eleven apples. Now He wants to divide the eleven apples among his friends, in such a way that an apple should remain in his bowl.
How can He do it?

I look flat, but I am deep. Hidden realms I shelter. Lives I take, but the food I offer. At times I am beautiful. I can be calm, angry, and turbulent. I have no heart but offer pleasure as well as death. No man can own me, yet I encompass what all men must have. What am I?

I have Rs.50 and I spend it in the way as below.

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

What are the next two letters in the following series and why?
W A T N T L I T F S _ _

*Hint: Check Puzzle Title

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

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