Which is the rope you never skip with?

Solve The below Equation:

ALFA + BETA + GAMA = DELTA

If,
29 - 1 = 30
9 - 1 = 10
14 - 1 = 15

Based on similar logic, Can you prove that the below algebraic equation is true?
11 - 1 = 10 ?

There is an exact a week gap between Christmas and New Year. Hence, It is obvious that the new year that comes right after Christmas comes on the same day of the week.

A Strange thing happened in the Year 1777. Christmas occurs on Wednesday and New Year on Monday. How is that possible?

I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?

You have two bottles of pills marked with labels A and B. The pills are identical. The doctor has asked you to take one A pill and one B pill daily. You cant take more or less than that.

While taking out the pills one day, you took out one pill from A and by mistake took out two from B. You have no idea which pill is which now.

You cant throw away the expensive pills. What will you do now?

I am a white box having no key or lid.
Yet there is a golden treasure inside it.

What Am I?

How many squares, of any size, can you find on this chessboard which do not contain a Rook?

John enters a small room. The Door Closes.
When the door opens, John is in a larger room.

Explain?

A mules travels the same distance daily.
I noticed that two of his legs travels 10km and the remaining two travels 12km.
Obviously two mules legs cannot be a 2km ahead of the other 2.

The mules is perfectly normal. So how come this be true ?