I am soft and cuddly that soothe your heart. But, If you pick my last name I am going to tear you all apart. Who am I?

If a zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo, and two pairs of babies are born for each one of the original animals, then (sadly) 23 animals don’t survive, how many animals do you have left in total?

Three ants are sitting at the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Each ant starts randomly picks a direction and starts to move along the edge of the triangle. What is the probability that none of the ants collide?

If you read clockwise, you can form a word by inserting three missing letters in the picture given below. Can you do it?

It walks on 4 when its young, walks on 2 when it's older, and walks on 3 when its very old?

In the addition below, all digits have been replaced by letters. Equal letters represent equal digits and different letters represent different digits.
ABCABA
BBDCAA
ABEABB
ABDBAA
------- +
AAFGBDH
What does the complete addition look like in digits?

Can you find out which triangle will have a bigger area among the following?
1. A triangle with sides 300, 400 and 500
2. A triangle with sides 300, 400 and 700

A clock loses 10 minutes each hour. If the clock is set correctly at noon, what time is it when it reads 3 PM?

What does this simple rebus mean?

A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 10 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 20 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?