Solution:

In the attached picture, you can see that the formation allows 2 castles to be protected by the walls. Congrats!

Solution:

It can be solved as below.

Solution:

We just added four matchsticks as shown in below picture.

Solution:

Fred Odea won.

Just look at the announcement lines. The first sentence in 'Ok now everybody!' If you take out just the first letter of every word, it will form 'ONE'. In the same manner the second sentence 'The winner of…..' will give form 'TWO' and the third sentence 'The Hardest Riddle Ever Event.' Will form THREE.

Thus the final sentence must form FOUR. There is only one candidate who can suffice with the first two letter and he is Fred Odea. The final sentence of the mastermind must be, 'Fred Odea: Ultimate Riddler!'

Solution:

64

Solution:

fIvE thOUsAnd(5000)

Solution:

They can be expressed as the sum of the cubes of two different sets of numbers.

10^3 + 9^3 = 1729
and
12^3 + 1^3 = 1729

Solution:

prinka is 10, in a system that awards five for each vowel.

Solution:

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Here is the answer key:
A-Z
B-Y
C-X
D-W
E-V
F-U
G-T
H-S
I-R
J-Q
K-P
L-O
M-N
N-M
O-L
P-K
Q-J
R-I
S-H
T-G
U-F
V-E
W-D
X-C
Y-B
Z-A

Solution:

Starting with the first two words, Take the first and last letters, reading from left to right. Example: Carrot fiascO "from these pairs" the message is as follows:

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