Puzzles and riddles

On a very cold April day in Calgary, Detective Brennan was called to Mrs. Smith’s home. Mrs. Smith explained she just baked a pie and she knows one of her three children ate it. The problem is, she does not know who ate it. All three children are under the age of ten and wear glasses. When Brennan asked the children, they responded - Abe said, “I was doing homework and could smell the pie”. Bobby said, “I just finished shoveling snow, came in and immediately saw the pie on the table”. Cindy said, “I was playing piano and heard mom baking her pie”. Brennan said, “I have heard enough. I know who ate the pie.” Who ate the pie?

You found a treasure box. Unfortunately, there is a lock on it. It is a three digit lock. You also found instructions for the lock. It reads - "Use the digits 1 to 9 only once to correctly solve all four math equations". Can you find the three digit combination?

Which of the following is the fastest?

Fastest commercial car

Fastest recorded maglev train

Fastest animal

Brennan and his two friends, Alex, who was holding his unopened soda, and Elisha, who was humming a tune, walked into a room of a building. Suddenly, the door slams shut behind them. They looked around the room and the only way out was through the door. The only thing in the room was a thick metal tube about 1 foot tall with an opening of an inch in diameter, secured to the floor with a key to the lock inside it. The tube is too narrow to reach in with your hands. The key looks to be made of a light plastic material. You also find sand, rocks, a bottle of glue and a magnet. Brennan and his friends looked at everything they have and found a way to get the key to get out. How did they do it?

Mark Giordano, Captain of the Calgary Flames, has one of the hardest slap shots in the NHL. If he takes a slap shot from the opposition’s blue line and scores, the puck would have traveled 20 meters in 0.44 seconds. How fast is the Captain’s slap shot in kilometers per hour?

Lanny McDonald, Joel Otto, Jim Peplinski and Tim Hunter are playing a board game when Mike Vernon walks in, “Hey, I have this new magic trick. I will bet you one dollar that you cannot figure it out.”. Lanny, Joel, Jim and Tim look at each other and nod. Mike takes out a bag of ice cubes and pours them into a cup. He was also sipping a bottle of Sprite. His trick is he can slowly transfer the Sprite from the bottle into the cup without ever touching it. Everyone agrees to the trick only if they can lock the door and Mike needs to stay with the others until tomorrow. Tomorrow arrives, they unlock the door and see the bottle of Sprite and a cup of liquid. Lanny tastes the liquid in the cup and sure enough, it was Sprite. Tim tastes the liquid in the Sprite bottle and it is definitely water. Joel and Jim thought hard but could not figure it out. Can you help them save their dollar from Mike?

Johnny Gaudreau is working out in the basement of his home. There are three light switches in the basement which controls a halogen light bulb on each level of his three-level home. Johnny does not remember which light switch controls which light. However, just like his smart hockey skills, he figures out how to determine which light switch controls which light by only going up his home once. Can you figure out how Johnny does this?