Ten Problems

Change one letter at a time to make Time out of Dell, but they have to be real words.

Dell

Time

Melissa sat in the office of Detective Sing.
“I met a man yesterday,” she said. “He’s trying to raise funds for Kids with Cancer by driving non-stop around Australia. He says he did it last year; drove to all the Australian Capitals in two and a half weeks. He says that he wants to try and break that record this year, and that if he does, the Australian Government will give a $10,000 donation to the charity. The only problem is that he needs funds to pay for the car, petrol and food. He’s asked me for an initial donation of $2,000. What should I do? Should I give it to him?”

Detective Sing paused for a moment. “You could give him the money,” he said. “But I don’t think it will help the charity.”

Why?

I choose not to buy something.This makes it immediately go on to auction.

Why?

In a catalog, you read about a set of blocks. There are 1029 blocks; all are identical in volume. They can be assembled into several tiers which are 1 foot thick and stack to form a pyramid. (The pyramid has a square base; its four sides are equivalent isosceles triangles.) How tall is this pyramid?

100 aliens attended an intergalactic meeting on earth.

73 had two heads,
28 had three eyes,
21 had four arms,
12 had two heads and three eyes,
9 had three eyes and four arms,
8 had two heads and four arms,
3 had all three unusual features.

How many aliens had none of these unusual features?

Answer One: To Laugh or to Cry?
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Answer Two: Deep Sleep
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Answer Three: Food Court
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Answer Four: Phone For Help
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Problem Five: How Far Can You Go?
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The Optimist and the Pessimist were arguing whether the wine barrel in front of them was half full or half empty. Then the Pragmatist came and showed them without measuring anything or removing any wine. How did he do it?

Here’s a famous one:

I start with the letter E.
I end with the letter E.
I usually contain only one letter
Yet I am not the letter E!
What am I?

Which common 9-letter English word remains an existing word each time you remove a letter from it until it is a one-letter word?

What am I?

1. I’m always excited
2. I tell people where they are
3. I’m always with numbers
4. I’m rich
5. I’m a part of a whole
6. I’m edgy
7. I’m curvy
8. I’m a star!
9. I tend not to stand up straight

You have a three inch by three inch cube whose outside surface is painted blue. If you cut the cube into smaller cubes each with 1 inch dimensions, and you throw the new smaller cubes onto a mat, what’s the probability that the top surface of every cube will be blue?

Three Kings agreed to a duel to settle an argument. The rules:Each king brings a gun with only one bullet. Then they will decide on a certain order to shoot.

We know that King #1 and King #2 are masters in shooting who never miss.We also know that King #3 is a very poor shooter and never hits the target.

Who is the most likely to survive?

This is a simple one:

At a royal party, the king suddenly killed the queen. But no one really cared, and no one payed much attention. Why?

I have many tongues but cannot taste
By me, most things are turned to waste
I crack and snap, yet I stay whole
I may take the largest toll
I assisted all of the first men
And I will pay them back again
Around me, people snuggle and sleep
Yet run when I am released from my keep
I jump around and leap and bound
The cold man wishes I he had found

What expression or word is depicted by each of the following codes?

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