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There is a square piece of paper with a hole that is denoted by the circle on the top right side in the given picture. You have to cut the paper in a manner that it forms two and only two separate pieces of paper and then rearrange the pieces in a manner that the holes come in the centre of the paper.

You have two strings whose only known property is that when you light one end of either string it takes exactly one hour to burn. The rate at which the strings will burn is completely random and each string is different. How do you measure 45 minutes?

The day after tomorrow will be three days before Tuesday. Can you find out what is today?

What is full of holes but still holds water?

The day before yesterday I was 25 and the next year I will be 28. This is true only one day in a year. What day is my birthday?

An octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind?

The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. Can you tell what it is?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

I sleep during the day and fly at night, but I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?