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Puzzle #1
The following statement is said to be true, and it has baffled some of the smartest minds for generations. The puzzle and the challenge to you is to prove that this statement is correct. Can you work it out? “Most people in the world have more than the average number of legs.”

Puzzle #2
A man is found lying dead in the middle of a field with an unopened package beside him. There are no tracks (and I do mean no tracks whatsoever), he was not murdered, nor did he die of natural causes. His death is related to the package. How did he die?

Puzzle #3
Fred and Pete go to the beach to collect sea shells. They take a bag with them to hold whatever shells they find. Without knowing the size of the bag or the size of the shells can you work out how many shells Fred and Pete can put into the empty bag?

Puzzle #4
You have a red bucket half filled with red (dyed) water, and a blue bucket, half filled with blue (dyed) water. The only other container you have is a big tub. How can you pour the contents of both buckets into the tub, mix them around, then separate them again and place them back into their respective buckets?

Puzzle #5
Fill in the missing blanks with the correct letters… it’s one of those easy and simple puzzles that drives you nuts. The reason it is so infuriating is that you probably learnt it in kindergarten.
_ T T _ _ S _ E N T

Puzzle #6
A mother took her seven-year-old son to the park. At the park the boy climbed to the top of a 100-foot tree. When it was time to leave, the mother called to the boy to come down, so he jumped from the top of the tree and landed at his mother’s feet unharmed. There were no parachutes, wires, harnesses or slides and the boy did jump (free fall) from the top of the tree, and “yes” mother was on the ground. How was it that he didn’t get hurt?

Puzzle #7
Somehow during the night, while the family were asleep, a fire started in the kitchen. The fire spread quickly to the only stairwell in the two-story house making it impossible to use because of the intense heat and flames. Luckily the wife, who was a light sleeper, woke up and realized what was happening. She woke her husband and their two children, and they easily made their way out of the house within 30 seconds. How did they get to safety so quickly?

Puzzle #8
You wake up before dawn and in an attempt not to disturb your partner’s sleep you don’t turn on the light. You know that in your sock drawer you have 13 identical blue socks and 11 identical red socks, but none are paired. What is the least number of socks you must remove (in the dark) to make sure you have a matching pair?

Puzzle #9
Uncle Ben and his nephew Dave went to the movies on Saturday night as they had done for the past year. Both were smartly dressed but the cashier would only sell a ticket to Dave and not his uncle Ben! There were plenty of seats, so what was the problem?

Puzzle #10
This is really two questions, the first is hard but if you are lateral you should work it out. The second will require you to be very lateral. See how you go, take your time:
1) What man made timing device has the least number of moving parts?
2) What man made timing device has the most number of moving parts?

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