If you are on a boat and toss a suitcase overboard, will the water level rise or fall?
In a bookcase, there are four volumes of the collected works of Astrid Lindgren, with each volume containing 200 pages. A worm who lives on this bookshelf has gnawed its way from the first page of the first volume to the last page of the fourth volume. Through how many pages has the worm gnawed its way through?
Can the equality \(K \times O \times T = U \times W \times E \times N \times H \times Y\) be true if the numbers from 1 to 9 are substituted for the letters? Different letters correspond to different numbers.
In two purses lie two coins, and one purse has twice as many coins as the other. How can this be?
There are two purses and one coin. Inside the first purse is one coin, and inside the second purse is one coin. How can this be?
In a room, there are three-legged stools and four-legged chairs. When people sat down on all of these seats, there were 39 legs (human and stool/chair legs) in the room. How many stools are there in the room?
Everyone believed that the Dragon was one-eyed, two-eared, three-legged, four-nosed and five-headed. In fact, only four of these definitions form a certain pattern, and one is redundant. Which characteristic is unnecessary?
Jemima always tells the truth, but when she was asked the same question twice, she gave different answers. What kind of question could this be?
In a purse, there are 2 coins which make a total of 15 pence. One of them is not a five pence coin. What kind of coins are these?
What is there a greater number of: cats, except for those cats that are not named Fluffy, or animals named Fluffy, except for those that are not cats?