What is the word or phrase below?
R | E | A | D

Which word is least like the others? Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

John and Jill are madly in love with each other. To remind Jill of his pure love, John wants to send her a ring by post but in their country where burglary is quite prominent, any package that is not locked comes under the risk of being stolen for the contents.

John and Jill possess many padlocks but neither one of them has the other key.

Can you find a way John can send the ring to Jill safely?

Move three sticks of the spiral below to form a square.

If six children and two dogs were under an umbrella, how come none of them got wet?

He runs but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?

Replace each alphabet with the number (1-9) to make the below equation correct.

AB * C = DE - F = GH / I

Imagine a box with two cogwheels, one big with 24 teeth and one small with 8 teeth. The big one is firmly attached to the center of the box which means it does not turn or move while the small one rotates around the big one.

How many times do you think that the smaller wheel will turn compared to the box when it turns once around the big one?

Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?