Solution:

Center of gravity.

Solution:

To do this, he must be pushing the cork inside the bottle and then taking out the coin.

Solution:

Move the coins as given in the figure and you will get the required result.

Solution:

17 mins

The initial solution most people will think of is to use the fastest person as an usher to guide everyone across. How long would that take? 10 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 2 = 21 mins. Is that it? No. That would make this question too simple even as a warm up question.

Let’s brainstorm a little further. To reduce the amount of time, we should find a way for 10 and 7 to go together. If they cross together, then we need one of them to come back to get the others. That would not be ideal. How do we get around that? Maybe we can have 1 waiting on the other side to bring the torch back. Ahaa, we are getting closer. The fastest way to get 1 across and be back is to use 2 to usher 1 across. So let’s put all this together.

1 and 2 go cross
2 comes back
7 and 10 go across
1 comes back
1 and 2 go across (done)

Total time = 2 + 2 + 10 + 1 + 2 = 17 mins

Solution:

Everyone will done one day or other.

Abraham Lincoln era is too old and we expect most of them(if not all) to be dead by now.

Solution:

It can be done in 8 moves as shown in the animated image below.

Solution:

White should move the rook from
A1 to D1 and hence complete the castling move.

Solution:

The wise man told them to switch the horses and then race. In this manner, both of them will be willing to race as fast as they can to prove that the other horse (his own horse) is slow.

Solution:

C7 => B8
Exchange pawn for a knight

Check-Mate

GameOver

Solution:

The mules is moving in circular path and hence outside legs travels more distance than inner legs.

Solution:

What must be kept in mind before you start calculating through any method is that the weights can be put on both the pans.

So the weights - 1, 3, 7, 12, 43, 76, 102

The oldest man that can be weighed using these weights is a man aged 122 years