Find the next number in the series?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, 392, _ ?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

It is a six-letter word.
The first four letters are me.
The second and last letters are the same.
The fourth second and last letter is payment.

Who is it?

Jessica is telling her friends this story and asks them to guess if it’s the truth or a lie: “There was a man sitting in a house at night that had no lights on at all. There was no lamp, no candle, and no other source of light. Yet, he sat in the house and read his book happily.” Her friends say she’s lying, but Jessica corrects them and says she’s telling the truth. Jessica’s story is true—but how?

Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do ?

Below the four parts have been reorganised. The four partitions are exactly the same in both arrangements. Why is there a hole?

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?

Can you find out a way through which you can make five squares out of the given figure by moving just six match sticks?

A man always keeps a spare tyre in his car. To make full use of all the five tyres, he changes the tyres in a manner that for a distance of 1, 00,000 km, each of them runs the same distance.

Can you calculate the distance travelled by each tyre on that journey?

On rolling two dices (six-sided normal dice) together, what is the probability that the first one comes up with a 2 and the second one comes up with a 5?