What is common among 11, 69, and 88?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

Manish and Manoj play 5 games of chess.
Both Manish and Manoj win the exact same number of games. There is no tie at all.

How?

How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.

S E Q U E N C _

I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?

A thief enters a store and threatens the clerk, forcing her to open the safe. The clerk says, “The code for the safe is different every day, and if you hurt me you’ll never get the code.” But the thief manages to guess the code on his own. How did he do it?

There are are five things wrong with this sentence; only geniuses will be able to to spot all of the mitstakes

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?