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In a cup, glass, jug and jar there is milk, lemonade, cola and water. It is known that the water and the milk are not in the cup; the container with the lemonade stands between the jug and the cola container; the jar does not contain lemonade or water; the glass stands near the jar and the container with milk. Which container is filled with each of the liquids?

When three friends – Nina, Helen and Anna – went out for a walk, they were wearing white, red and blue dresses. Their shoes were of the same three colors, but only Nina had the same shoe and dress color. At the same time, neither Helen’s dress, nor her shoes were blue, and Anna was wearing red shoes. Determine the color of the dresses and of the shoes of each friend.

Is it always the case that in any 25 GBP banknotes – that is £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes – there will always be 7 banknotes of the same denomination?

Cowboy Joe was sentenced to death in an electric chair. He knows that out of two electric chairs standing in a special cell, one is defective. In addition, Joe knows that if he sits on this faulty chair, the penalty will not be repeated and he will be pardoned. He also knows that the guard guarding the chairs on every other day tells the truth to every question and on the alternate days he answers incorrectly to every question. The sentenced person is allowed to ask the guard exactly one question, after which it is necessary to choose which electric chair to sit on. What question can Joe ask the guard to find out for sure which chair is faulty?

Fred and George are twin brothers. One of them always tells the truth, and the other always lies. You can ask only one question to one of the brothers, to which he will answer “yes” or “no”. Try to find out the name of each of the twins.

In an ordinary set of dominoes, there are 28 tiles. How many tiles would a set of dominoes contain if the values indicated on the tiles did not range from 0 to 6, but from 0 to 12?

What are the eight coins you need to take, so that you can use them to pay without change any amount from 1 pence up to 1 pound?

(In circulation at the time, there were coins of 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 pence).

The director of a power plant, considering the list of phone numbers and the names of his employees, noticed a certain relationship between names and phone numbers. Here are some names and phone numbers from the list:

Achinskiy 9125

Butenko 7215

Dapin 5414

Galick 6711

Martyanof 9136

Romidze 7185

What is the phone number of an employee named Ognef?

It is known that “copper” coins that are worth 1, 2, 3, 5 pence weigh 1, 2, 3, 5 g respectively. Among the four “copper” coins (one for each denomination), there is one defective coin, differing in weight from the normal ones. How can the defective coin be determined using scales without weights?