f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

What brings you down but never up?

Can you find the largest Three-digit number whose sum is 14 and whose square is less than 5,00,000?

Two friends were stuck in a cottage. They had nothing to do and thus they started playing cards. Suddenly the power went off and Friend 1 inverted the position of 15 cards in the normal deck of 52 cards and shuffled it. Now he asked Friend 2 to divide the cards into two piles (need not be equal) with equal number of cards facing up. The room was quite dark and Friend 2 could not see the cards. He thinks for a while and then divides the cards in two piles.

On checking, the count of cards facing up is same in both the piles. How could Friend 2 have done it ?

Count the Triangle in the figure given below:

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

Take away the whole and some still remain. What is it?

What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Can you make the number 24 by utilizing the numbers 1, 3, 4 and 6? You must use one number only one time and you can use mathematical operation symbols anytime anywhere.

A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you." What did the prisoner say to save himself?