There are two candles. Both will only burn exactly for an hour. How will you use these two candles to measure forty-five minutes?

John and Jenni are a married couple. They have two kids, one of them is a girl. Assume safely that the probability of each gender is 1/2.
What is the probability that the other kid is also a girl?

Hint: It is not 1/2 as you would first think.

There are two guys standing face to face in a room. On a wall, there is a clock. One of those is a prophet. He tells the other guy that he will be stabbed in the back in five minutes.

Shocked to hear that, the other guy stares at the clock. Just after the five minutes, he is stabbed on the back. Can you tell what happened?

using four eights (8) and a one (1) and one mathematical symbol , create the number 100

If in a code language, DISTANCE is written as IDTUBECN and DOCUMENT is written as ODDVNTNE, the how will THURSDAY be coded as in the same language?

Can you count the number of matches in the picture below ?

A man had five children. He had $100 with him to give to his children. He decided to start with the youngest child and then give $2 more than each younger child to his next elder child.

For example, if he gives $x to the youngest child, he will give $(x+2) to the next one, $[(x+2) + 2] to the next one and so on.

Can you find out how much did the youngest one receive?

What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?

An explorer goes on an exposition in the jungle. He sets up camp in the middle of the jungle. The next morning he sees something with a head and a tail, but he is not afraid. What did he see in his bag?

You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?