Jamie is 24 years old. Jamie is twice as old as Jill was when Jamie was
as old as Jill is now.
How old is Jill now?

John had an appointment in London at two o'clock in the afternoon. If
he left his home and travelled at 15 km/h, he would arrive at one o'clock.
If he travelled at 10 km/h, he would not arrive until three o'clock.
What is the distance from his home to London?

You have 2 candles of same height but of different widths. One takes
4 hours to burn all the way while the other takes 7 hours. Assuming they
burn at steady rates, how long will it take before one candle is twice
as tall as the other?

John hired a car at a cost of £15 per day to take him to Oxford
and back again in the evening. When he got halfway on his outward journey
he met a friend, gave him a lift to the town and brought him back to the
point where he picked him up in the morning.
There is a dispute about the payment. How much should John charge his
passenger for his share of the motor hire?

In 1992, a father's age added to that of his wife was ten times the sum
of the ages of their children. In 1994, it was only six times the sum,
and in 2000 it had fallen to three times the sum.
How many childrens have they (They are all alive)?

Two cyclists 20 km apart start at the same instant and ride towards each
other along a straight road at a speed of 10 km/h. At the same instant
a fly on the forehead of one of the riders starts to fly at 15 km/h towards
the other rider, alights on his forehead and then flies back to the first
rider.
The fly travels back and forth over the continuously decreasing distance
between the two riders until it is finally squashed as the foreheads of
the two riders meet. How far has the fly flown when all his journeys are
added together?

You are a prisoner but are a given a chance to escape. There are two
guarded doors, behind one freedom, behind the other execution! One guard
always lies and the other always tells the truth. You are allowed one
question. What would you ask?

If the journey between London and Manchester takes four and a half hours
and vice versa, and that a train starts from each city every hour on the
hour.
How many trains from Manchester will a passenger from London to Manchester
meet and pass on the journey?

A friend of yours has just bought a big container of whisky: 12 litres.
He decides to share it with you only if you can divide it exactly evenly:
6 litres each. The problem is that you only have with you a 5 and an 8
litres container. How can you do it?

You have a 10 x 10 x 10 cm^3 cube made up of individual 1 x 1 x 1 cm^3.
The outer surface of the cube is removed. How many cubes are removed?

In a market, a woman sold to Mr. Jones half her stock of eggs and half
an egg. She then sold to Smith half of her remaining stock and half an
egg. Then Robinson bought half of the eggs which she had left and half
an egg. Finally Brown then bought the rest of her stock, thirty-three
eggs in total.
How many eggs did she have to start with? She did not sell any broken
eggs.

You have 1000 kilograms of tomatoes. The tomatoes are 99% water. You
want to sell sun dried tomatoes. After a day of drying water makes up
for 98% of the tomatoes. How much do they weigh now?

Four explorers make a journey into the desert. Each man carries enough
food to last him five days. After the party has gone some distance, one
man starts turning back, taking him just enough food to last him until he gets
back to his starting point. Then a second man does so likewise, and so on.
How many days' journey can the last man make into the desert and return
safely? It is assumed that food can be transferred from person to person,
and that each man travels in units of full days.

One tank is half full of water, and another half full of whiskey. A spoonful
of water is taken from the first tank and mixed with the whiskey in the
second. A spoonful of the watered whiskey is then taken and mixed in the
tank of water. Is the amount of water taken from the first tank greater
or less than the amount of whiskey taken from the second tank?

Four soldiers, of which three are wounded, need to cross a dangerous
bridge at night time to escape their enemy. The bridge can support at
most two soldiers at any one time. The soldiers have only one torch light
which needs to be used during the crossing. The non wounded soldier can
cross the bridge in 1 minute, whilst the less lucky ones take 2, 5 and
10 mintues respetively. Whilst crossing the bridge the less wounded soldier
would need to support his buddy, and thus cross the brige at his buddy's
pace.
What is the shortest time they can reach the other side in?