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

You can find some missing letters in the picture. By placing two particular letters in the spaces, you can form a nine lettered word beginning from one of the corners and going clockwise direction to the middle. Can you find out the letters and the word?

I have eight fingers and two thumbs but I do not live. What Am I?

If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?

I have no doors but I have keys, I have no rooms but I have space, you can enter but you can’t leave! What am I?

In a kingdom, King George did not allow any citizen to visit the world outside. Also, only a person with proper paperwork was allowed to enter or he was sent back. A wooden bridge was what connected the kingdom to the world. The king had appointed a sharpshooter who would check the every five minutes on the bridge to check. After checking, he would go back to his hut and return exactly after five minutes again. The bridge took 9 minutes to cross.

A merchant was able to escape the kingdom without harming the shooter. How?

When we see 2 but call 10?

On a bus, there is a 26-year-old pregnant lady.
A 30-year-old policeman.
A 52-year-old random woman.
And the 65-year-old driver.

Who is the youngest?

There are 2 sand hourglasses.

The small one can measure 5 hours and the large one can measure 7 hours.

How can we measure 16 hours with 2 sand hourglasses running together ?