In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

A mother bought three dress for her triplets daughters(one for each) and put the dresses in the dark. One by one the girls come and pick a dress.
What is the probability that no girl will choose her own dress?

A generous owner of a company decided to give a bonus of $45 to every man and $60 to every woman on his birthday. But only one-ninth of the men and one-twelfth of the women were present to take the bonus.

Can you calculate the amount of money the owner spent if there were 3552 employees?

John went to a parrot shop in Mexico, and the parrot owner told him that his parrot is so unique that he repeats everything he hears. John got excited and immediately bought the parrot. John went home and spoke many words, but the parrot does not repeat anything.
He went again to the parrot shop and complaint to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper never lied. Explain?

There is a place where if I stand up straight, I will still be considered sideways.

You have two buckets - one holds exactly 5 gallons and the other 3 gallons. How can you measure 4 gallons of water into the 5 gallon bucket?

(Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.)

How do you go from 98 to 720 using just one letter?

How many cubic feet of dirt are in a hole of one foot deep, three feet long, and two feet wide?

As you can see that fifteen matches have been used to form an arrangement. What you have to do is remove any six of them to make them ten.