A woman lives in a skyscraper thirty-six floors high and is served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?

Is the statement valid that it does not matter how much older a sibling is, eventually the younger one will be half as old as the older one?

In a guessing game, five friends had to guess the exact numbers of apples in a covered basket.
Friends guessed 22, 24, 29, 33, and 38, but none of the guesses was correct. The guesses were off by 1, 8, 6, 3, and 8 (in random order).

Can you determine the number of apples in a basket from this information?

John named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third Charlie and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son's name?

Solve the alphametic puzzle by replacing the alphabet with the number.

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In a town, there are four houses located at different distances from each other. Following are the distances:

The third house is 60 meters apart from the first house.
The fourth house is 40 meters apart from the second house.
The third house is 10 meters nearer to the fourth house than it is to the second house.

Can you find out the distance between the fourth and the first house?

A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?

Find the last number in the series below:

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There is a wide field of corn. A goose finds its way into the field and starts running. Can you find out till which point the goose can run into the field?