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☞ A square medieval castle on a square island is under siege. All around the castle there is a square moat 10 meters wide. Due to a regrettable miscalculation the raiders have brought footbridges, which
are only 9.5 meters long. The invaders cannot abandon their campaign and return empty-handed. How can the assailants
resolve their predicament?

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☞ A magic wish-granting rectangular belt always shrinks to 1/2 its length and 1/3 its width v whenever its owner makes a wish.
After three wishes, the surface area of the belt's front side was 4 cm2. What was the original length, if the original width was 9 cm?

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☞ At a garden shop they're selling Magic Grass, a patch of sod that doubles in size every day. A man goes to buy some and figures that his garden is big enough that if he buys one patch, it will cover his garden in fourteen days, because each day it doubles in size. So he decides to speed up the process, and buys two patches of sod.
How many days will it now take for the Magic Grass to cover his garden?

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☞ After watching and discussing the 5 oclock news including a story about a
jewel heist that happened yesterday in the area, Tommy and his mother leave for the
mall. It's closing soon.
While in the mall, Tommy nags his mother to buy him a 'soldier toy." Mom buys him a
toy set on the condition that Tommy stays put while in the shoe store, and she opens
the set, giving Tommy ONE of the toys.
Tommy wastes no time having some fun with his new toy.
Meanwhile. across the mall, a man and woman are enjoying each other's conversation over pizza. They seem very
happy and excited about something.
After only a moment of fun with his new toy, Tommy comes to know what their excitement is all about. He begins pulling
frantically on his mom's shirt to get her attention and he excitedly tells her what
the couple just did, although it seems they were just talking. Tommy, however, is VERY excited. He was not known for telling tales, so his mom (a police officer), calls
her department directly. After speaking with them, the man and woman are shortly
apprehended with 2.9 million dollars in stolen jewels!
Tommy just cracked the heist case from the 5 oclock news!
Questions:
(1) Tommy has both a disability and ability. What are they?
(2) What was the 'Soldier Toy' Tommy's mom let him play with?

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☞ Detective Sara Dunts was called in for an investigation on a Saturday morning. Mr.
John Gooding had mysteriously vanished from his one story home, Sara was told.
"I'll phone Mrs. Glen, the caretaker, and get you the address." Detective Chad Sandlers, Sara's partner, said. Sara stood waiting as he made the call. "Okay, everything's set.
Mrs. Glen will be expecting you in half an hour at 232 Parker At." Detective Chad said.

Sara hopped out of her car and walked up the long path that led to the house. Right away she was ushered inside by Mrs.
Glen. "Detective, I'm so glad you came. The last place I saw Mr. Gooding was in his room. I suspected that would be your
first question. Mrs. Glen said somewhat nervously. She walked Sara into the other
room. "Up here Mrs. Glen called from a twisting flight of stairs. The front door banged shut just as Sara started up the steps. "Oh, I must have left the door open. The wind must have shut it." Mrs, Glen said. Again they started up the stairs.
They walked up the enormous stairway.
Halfway up detective Sara noticed a weather vane through the window. She realized that the wind was blowing west
and in order for it to have shut the door it would have to have been blowing east.
Then Sara realized for the first time that there was a third set of footsteps on the stairs, Then it dawned on her and she
realized she had walked into a trap. How did Sara know she had walked into a trap?

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☞ A crime has been committed at Freemont Street. The main suspect is a man named Sean Baker. It was said that a man had been alking along the pathway when he was suddenly shot in the stomach. The suspect had brown hair, blue eyes and wore a baggy Armani suit just like Sean Baker's. Sean was asked to tell the story right from the beginning. "Well, said Sean, "I was just hanging around the park when I saw this man walking along the pathway. Suddenly, a guy came up from behind him and shot him! I ran home as fast as I could The policemen asked him to give a description of the murderer. "He had a red moustache red hair and a baggy Armani suit on."
"I think this man is telling a lie, said one of the policemen. How did he know?

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☞ A man bumps into his mathematician friend on the street that he hasn't seen in 5 years. The man asks the mathematician how old his children are.

The mathematician, who always replies in riddles said:
I now have three children. The sum of their ages is equal to the number of windows on the building in front of you and the product of their ages equals 36.

The friend then says:
I need one more piece of information.

The mathematician then replies:

My youngest child has blue eyes. What are the ages of the mathematicians
three children?

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☞ Mr. Black, Mr. Gray, and Mr. White are fighting in a truel. They each get a gun and take turns shooting at each other until only one person is left. Mr. Black, who hits his shot 1/3 of the time, gets to shoot first. Mr. Gray, who hits his shot 2/3 of the time, gets to shoot next, assuming he is still alive. Mr. White, who hits his shot all the time, shoots next, assuming he is also alive. The cycle repeats. If you are Mr. Black, where should you shoot first for the highest chance of survival?

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☞ Dwayne Johnson was running away with the loot from a heist in his car along with Vin Diesel. One tire was punctured and he dropped down to replace it. While changing the wheel, he dropped the four nuts that were holding the wheel and they fell into a drain. Vin Diesel gave him an idea using which they were able to drive till the rendezvous point. 

What was the idea ?

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☞ Seven Robbers loot the bank and hide the coins at a deserted factory.
They decide to divide the money equally next morning. Two greedy robbers decided to cheat the others and reach the factory at night. They equally divided the coins between them, one coin left. So they called another robber and then they decided to divide equally among three. Sadly again one coin left. Same thing happened for 4th 5th and the 6th robber.
However when 7th robber reached in the morning, they are able to divide the coins equally.

How many coins were there in total?

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☞ The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it.

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☞ An ant is traveling on a 1meter long rope at 1cm/seconds but also the entire rope is being stretched by an extra 1meter/second. Is it possible for the ant to reach at the end of the rope?

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☞ Edward asked Bella, "The time right now is 7 pm. Can you tell me what will be the time 23, 999, 995 hours later ?"

While Bella does not know the answer, do you ?
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☞ Complete the series:

0 , 1 , 10 , 11 , ?

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☞ What happens only
in the middle of each month, in all of the seasons, except
summer and happens only in the night, never in the day?

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☞ Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?

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☞ How do you spell COW in thirteen letters?

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☞ What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

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☞ Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it?

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☞ There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
What is it?
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☞ You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I'm dead what am I?
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