Chef Andrea has to light the kitchen stoves to open her restaurant for the day. There are three stoves in the kitchen: A glass stove, a brick stove, and a wood stove. She only has one match. Which does she light up first?

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?

What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone's number pad?

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

A deaf and mute man goes to the train station. Tickets for the train are 50 cents each. The man goes to the ticket booth and hands the man inside just a dollar. The man in the booth hands him two tickets.

How did the man in the booth know to give him two tickets without even looking at him?

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

In the Mexico City area, there are two Houses H1 and H2. Both H1 and H2 have two children each.
In House H1, The boy plays for Mexico Youth academy and the other child plays baseball.
In House H2, The boy Plays soccer for his school in Mexico and they recently have a newborn.

Can you prove that the probability of House-H1 having a girl child is more than that of House-H2?

What is the longest word in the dictionary?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?