1. If you missed this, you will probably hit yourself on the forehead. Since the ship is afloat, the water level in relation to the ship stays the same. Therefore, eight feet are above water at the end, just as at the beginning.

2. He asks, "Which is the path that leads to your city?"

3. Take a fruit from apples and oranges, say it's an orange, (or apple), you now know which box this is because they're all mis-labeled. If it's definitly not the apples and oranges box, and you have, say, an orange in your hand, then it's definitly the oranges box. Now the easier part: Due to the fact that all of the boxes are mis-labeled, all you have to do is swap the other two labels around, and eureka, you've done it.

4. Three. The answer is always the same regardless of how many socks are in the drawer, as long as there are only two colors.

5. 28 days. Once it reaches the top of the well it does not slip back down.

6. No. 1 and No. 3. Reason: No. 2 does not matter because the question is concerned only with red cards and if No. 4 is either red or green the answer could still be yes. If No. 1 has a circle the answer is no and if No. 3 is red the answer is no.

7. The man first carries chicken and leaves it on the other shore. Then he comes back, gets the fox, and takes it to the other shore. He picks up the chicken and takes it back to the original side, getting the corn. The man takes the corn to the opposite side (where it joins the fox) and goes back and picks up the chicken.