THE Ashes of 2001 were full of turns. When the pitch was good, everyone scored runs, but on bowler-friendly wickets, there were rows of ducks on the scoreboard. Ms Akbar was the daughter of Amar and the niece of Anthony, so, there were but four persons in the family. Rs 100 were contributed, Rs 92 spent, and each received Rs 2 in the distribution. Those who read the googly well included Ravinder Mittal, Rajeev Kumar Tak, Puneet Goyal, Dilprit Singh Bakhshi, Mohit Sudan, Ruchi Sharma, Dr Tarsem Lal, Charanpal Singh, Rajeev Garg, Aarti Handa and Uchit Singhal

The two children had started on their way to school on Sunday morning! Those who found out their secret were Sarika Jain, Kanika Bhalla, Jaspal Singh Dhaliwal, Rohit Jindal, Shubhangi Arora, Rajeev Kumar Tak and Amritpal Singh Bhatia.

The Jones boys sold 220 more papers than the Smith boys and the original number of newspapers was 1,020. Vishal Thapar, Puneet Goyal, Varun Jindal, Dr R. Chawla, Pawan Singhania, Amit Gupta, Navinderjit Sharma, Ehsaas Billing, Ajay Bir Singh, Rajeev Kumar Tak, Mohit Bhambri, Ravinder Mittal Sr and Jr, Pavneet Singh, Gopal Krishan and Puneet Verma found out the number.

The number of men when Casey was alive must be a multiple of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. We take the least common multiple, 2,520, then, subtract 1 to get the number of members without Casey. This could be the answer were it not for the catch phrase, "as eleven would not do". Since 2,519 is divisible by 11, we have to go the next highest multiple, 5,040, then, subtract 1 to get 5,039. Since this is not divisible by 11, and since higher multiples will give answers above 7,000, we conclude that 5,039 is the only correct answer. Vipul Kodan and Vishal Thapar said 2,519 and 5,039 could be the answers… narrow escape.

The 770 chestnuts were divided so that the youngest girl got 198, the next oldest got 264, and the oldest got 308. Yugesh Kumar Suneja, Anirudh Jindal, Abhigya Chauhan, Aastha Kanwar, Puneet Verma, Ananya Arora, Paras Pandav, Harpreet Singh Mudhar, Arindam Banerjee, Gurjinder Singh, Rohit Kumar Pardasani, Karn Agarwal, Atul and Manpreet Billing were successful nutty professors.

To help the lovers reach the shore, we begin with ABCD (the men) and abcd (the girls) all on shore. There are other ways the puzzle can be solved "in 17 trips", but this solution involves the least number of "getting in" and "getting out" (‘s’ is for ‘on the shore’, ‘i’ is for ‘on the island’ and ‘o’ is for on the other side): 1) ABCDcd (s), none (i) and ab (o); 2) ABCDbcd (s), none (i) and a (o); 3) ABCDd (s), bc (i) and a (o); 4) ABCDcd (s), b (i) and a (o); 5) CDcd (s), b (i) and ABa (o); 6) BCDcd (s), b (i) and Ab (o); 7) BCD (s), bcd (i) and Aa (o); 8) BCDd (s), bc (i) and Aa (o); 9) Dd (s), bc (i) and ABCa (o); 10) Dd (s), abc (i) and ABC (o); 11) Dd (s), b (i) and ABCac (o); 12) BDd (s), b (i) and ACac (o); 13) d (s), b (i) and ABCDac (o); 14) d (s), bc (i) and ABCDa (o); 15) d (s), none (i) and ABCDabc (o); 16) cd (s), none (i) and ABCDab (o); 17) none (s), none (i) and ABCDabcd (o). Everyone got out on this bouncer.

— Aditya Rishi