Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

_ _ _ IE _ _
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_ _ _ _ IE

Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

There are hundred red gems and hundred blue gems. The blue gems are priceless while the red gems equal wastage. You have two sacks one labeled Heads and the other Tails. You have to distribute the gems as you want in the two sacks. Then a coin will be flipped and you will be asked to pick up a gem randomly from the corresponding sacks.

How will you distribute the gems between the sacks so that the odds of picking a Blue gem are maximum?

Make the seating arrangement of 10 children in such a way that there are 5 rows with 4 children in each row.

Can you find the odd number in the following?

2716, 4135, 5321 and 7145

I have two sand hourglasses:
1. A 7 minute one and
2. An 11-minute one.

Using just these 2 sand hourglasses, how can I measure time as 15 minutes?

Analyze and find the missing item in the sequence:
16, 06, 68, 88, __, 98

Replace The Question Mark Below With the Correct Number.

2 {38} 3
4 {1524} 5
6 {3548} 7
8 {????} 9

A girl was sitting in her hotel room when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and found that a man was standing outside. The man said, "Oh! I am really sorry, I thought this was my room." He then walked through the corridor to the elevator. The girl did not know the man. She closed her door and called security asking them to apprehend the man. What made her suspicious of that man? He might have been genuinely mistaken.

If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?