How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?

An inspection by the superintendent of St. Joseph School was scheduled on the next day. The class teacher Jenifer knew that he would be asking questions from her class and she would have to choose a pupil to answer. To offer a perfect impression over him, the teacher explained certain instructions to the students to maximise the chances of getting correct answer every time.

What did she say to the students?

A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 10 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 20 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?

There was a blind man. He had four socks in his drawer either black or white. He opened it and took out two socks. Now the probability that it was a pair of white socks is 1/2.

Can you find out the probability that he had taken out a pair of black socks ?

What can jump higher than a building?

What demands an answer, but asks no questions

A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business.

There is so small cabin inside a deep forest.
All the forest burned out to worst possible but the inside of the cabin is still the same.
However all the person inside the cabin die.

How come ?

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

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