In a guessing game, five friends had to guess the exact numbers of apples in a covered basket.
Friends guessed 22, 24, 29, 33, and 38, but none of the guesses was correct. The guesses were off by 1, 8, 6, 3, and 8 (in random order).

Can you determine the number of apples in a basket from this information?

What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is one-third the second, the third is the sum of the first two, and the last is three times the second?

The person who makes it has no need for it. He who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know they are. What is it?

It's a 7-letter word.
If we remove 1 letter from it, it remains the same.
If we remove 2 letters from it, it remains the same.
If we remove 3 letters from it, it remains the same.
If we remove all the letters from it, still it remains the same.
What is it?

Birbal was jester, counsellor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.
The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness,
and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.
One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor.
"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."
Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal.
It was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it.
How could this be?

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?

What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

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

Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

Can you count the number of squares in the given picture?