Your job is to measure 45 minutes if you have only two cords and matches to light the cords.

1. The two cords are twisted from various materials, so their different segments can burn at different rates.
2. Each cord burns from end to end in exactly one hour.

Describe your way of measuring the 45 minutes.

There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

10+10 and 11+11 can give you the same answer.

Explain how?

If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

How will you measure 15 minutes using two hourglasses of 7 minutes and 11 minutes respectively?

A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages, but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which other pages won't be there?

Which five letter word can be added at the end of below word to form a
valid word?

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One day, all the courtiers from Akbar's court were gathered in the assembly hall when one of them told the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night.
This shocked the Emperor to his core as the place where that courter stayed was the most secured in the kingdom. The Emperor thought that it is not at all possible for an outsider to enter into the courtier's house and steal the valuables. Only another courtier could commit this crime. He quickly called Birbal to identify the thief.
Birbal thought for a while and successfully solved the mystery by identifying the thief in just one statement.
What did Birbal say?

How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?