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Decipher the puzzle: \(KIS + KSI = ISK\). The same letters correspond to the same numbers, different letters correspond to different numbers.

Two tribes live on the island: natives and newcomers. It is known that the natives always tell the truth and the newcomers always lie. A traveler hired an indigenous islander as a guide. On the way, they met a man. The traveler asked the guide to find out which tribe this person belongs to. The guide returned and said that the man said that he was a native. Who was the guide – a native or a newcomer?

Among 40 containers there are two containers of different shapes and two containers of different colors. Prove that among them there are two containers that are both of different shapes and colors.

Teams A, B, C, D and E participated in a relay. Before the competition, five fans expressed the following forecasts.

1) team E will take 1st place, team C – 2nd;

2) team A will take 2nd place, D – 4th;

3) C – 3rd place, E – 5th;

4) C – 1st place, D – 4th;

5) A – 2nd place, C – 3rd.

In each forecast, one part was confirmed, and the other was not. What place did each team take?

In the race of six athletes, Andrew lagged behind Brian and two more athletes. Victor finished after Dennis, but before George. Dennis beat Brian, but still came after Eustace. What place did each athlete take?

Three friends were at the prom dressed in white, red and blue dresses. Their shoes were of the same three colors. Only Sarah’s shoes and dress were of the same color. Laura was wearing white shoes. Neither the dress nor the shoes of Linda were red. Identify the colors of the dresses and of the shoes of the three friends.

Some girls are on a street. On the street, standing in a circle, four girls are talking: Janine, Mimi, Beatrix and Tash. A girl in a green dress (not Janine or Mimi) stands between a girl in a blue dress and Tash. A girl in a white dress is standing between a girl in a pink dress and Mimi. What dress is on each of the girls?

Replace the letters in the word \(TRANSPORTIROVKA\) by numbers (different letters correspond to different numbers, but the same letters correspond to identical numbers) so that the inequality \(T > R > A > N < P <O < R < T > I > R > O < V < K < A\).

Restore the numbers. Restore the digits in the following example by dividing as is shown in the image

Decipher the numerical puzzle system \[\left\{\begin{aligned} & MA \times MA = MIR \\ & AM \times AM = RIM \end{aligned}\right.\] (different letters correspond to different numbers, and identical letters correspond to the same numbers).