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A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

The anagram of this phrase is an instrument used in the orchestra. What is it? A bliss nectar
Bass clarinet

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

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