JAI SRI RAM

PUZZLES & RIDDLES

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CONTENTS

PUZZLES
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Math Puzzles Riddles Lateral 5 11 Thinking 20 33 42

ANSWERS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Math Puzzles Riddles Lateral Thinking Puzzles Logical Puzzles Word Puzzles 46 52 57 66 78

Puzzles Logical Puzzles Word Puzzles

Bonus :
6 . Fun Facts 81

1. Adding Up To 100
16,17,23,24,39,40 Adding together each of these numbers as many times as you want, how do you reach a sum of exactly 100?

MATH PUZZLES

2. Animal Math Puzzle

A small zoo had just mammals and birds. When asked how many of each they had, the zoo keeper said he had a total of 54 animals with a 140 feet total between them all. Assuming all the animals had all the feet they should have, how many birds and how many mammals were there?

3. Adding Up To 1000
Using the digit "8" 8 times (and no other digits), add numbers together to reach a sum of 1000

How many years ago was her mother three times the age of her daughter Mary?

6. How Many Flowers

In a bouquet of flowers, all but two are roses, all but two are tulips, and all but two are daisies. How many flowers are in the bouquet?

4. Add numbers from 1 to 9 to get 100

Look at the following: 1 + 23 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 78 + 9 = 106 Notice that the digits 1 through 9 are used in order to arrive at 106. Using 1 through 9 in order, and using only addition or subtraction, create an equation that equals 100.

7. 24 from Spare Parts

Using only and all the numbers 3, 3, 7, 7, along with the arithmetic operations +,-,*, and /, can you come up with a calculation that gives the number 24? No decimal points allowed. [For example, to get the number 14, we could do 3 * (7 - (7 / 3))]

5. Age Problem
Mary is 54 years old, and her mother is 80.

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8. 100 Meter Race

Andy, Barry, and Carl race each other in a 100meter dash. They each run at a constant speed throughout the sprint. Andy beats Barry by 20 meters, and Barry beats Carl by 20 meters. How many meters does Andy beat Carl by?

10. Find the number

A certain number consists of two digits. The number is equal to five times the sum of its digits. If you add 9 to the number, the order of its digits is reversed. What is the number?

9. Average Salary
Five coworkers want to know what the average of all their salaries is, but refuse to reveal ANY information about their own salaries to their coworkers. average? How can they calculate the

11. How many Cigarettes ?

A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs. If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke?

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1.

Can you name five days of the week without saying (or writing) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday?

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Read this aloud right now: The cow ate the the green grass. Did you get it right?

RIDDLES

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What number, when added to the number three or multiplied by it, gives the same result?

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Count every " F" in the following sentence (What could be easier than that?): Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years. How many did you find? Check at the end of the newsletter to see if you found them all.

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This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary, you'd think nothing was wrong with it. Actually, nothing IS wrong with it. But it is not as ordinary as you might think. If you think about it for a bit, you will find out why it is truly so unusual. So what is it? What is so unordinary about this paragraph?

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I have three letters, and I read the same forward and backwards. I rhyme with a word that is important to everyone. What word am I? 8. Peter picked one pepper more than Paul. Pat picked one pepper more than Pam. Peter and Paul picked 10 more peppers than Pat and Pam. Peter, Paul, Pat and Pam picked 60 peppers. How many peppers did Peter pick?

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How can you cut a cake into eight parts with just three cuts?

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If you call me by name, I am no more. Who am I?

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I'm as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I'll approach like a breeze, but can come like a gale. By some I get hit, but all have shown fear. I'll dance to the music, though I can't hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I'm as slow as a snail, but from me you can't run. What am I?

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The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it, and the user doesn't see it. What is it?

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What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? 15.

Here on Earth it's almost always true, that tomorrow will follow today. Yet there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where is this place?

12.

Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what have you got?

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Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again. What is it?

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What goes up and down, but doesn't move?

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My host thinks I'm an irritation, a bother, a pain. But he can't evict me, so here I will remain. Then one day I'm taken and ranked among my peers. Can you guess just what I am? Then you might call me dear.

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What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?

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What word starts with an "e", ends with an "e" and contains only one letter?

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A mile from end to end, yet as close to you as a friend. A precious commodity, freely given, seen on the dead and on

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My

thunder

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the living. Found on the rich, poor, short or tall, but shared among children most of all. What is it? 22. What is it that you must give before you can keep it?

lightning flares above. I dust the crust, and when I bust, all I touch will I shove. What am I?

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What is too much for one, enough for two, and nothing at all for three ?

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I can not be seen only heard and I will not speak unless spoken to. What am I?

LATERAL THINKING PUZZLES

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Often held but never touched, always wet but never rusts, often bites but seldom bit, to use me well you must have wit. What am I?

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1. Hanging above water

A man is found hanging in a room 30 feet off the ground. There is nothing else in the room except for a large puddle of water on the ground. The police can't see any way the man could have climbed the walls to get to where he is hanging. How did this man hang himself?

3.Towards the sunset

A man and woman run through a field holding hands. They bound toward the sunset, happy as can be. Suddenly, the man moves off of his straight-line course and starts veering to his left. At the same time, the woman begins running off to her right. They continue this for a full minute, but never let go of each others' hands. How is this possible?

2. Doctor cant operate

A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies instantly, and the son is taken to the nearest hospital. The doctor comes in and exclaims "I can't operate on this boy." "Why not?" the nurse asks. "Because he's my son," the doctor responds. How is this possible?

4. Defending the Bridge

Two soldiers, William and Ethan, are assigned to guard a bridge, which connects the West and East sides of the Great Kingdom. Each soldier is ordered to stand at an end of the bridge to make sure no criminals cross. On one side of the bridge

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stands William, watching over the West side of the kingdom, and making sure no shady characters try to cross the bridge. Ethan stands on the other side of the bridge, facing the East side of the kingdom with his rifle at the ready in case any criminals try to pass across. "Any criminals today?" William asks. Ethan rolls his eyes. "What do you think?" he asks. "You roll your eyes too much," William says. How could William tell that Ethan was rolling his eyes?

air always smells fresh. The barber has a friendly smile, shined shoes, a well-groomed head of hair, and a fancy shirt. The barbershop on the east side of town is a mess. Its floors and windows are dirty, and the air smells of garbage. The barber always has a grimace on his face. His skin is oily, his hair is short and ragged, and he has food on his clothes all the time. A man travelling through the town realizes he needs a haircut. Knowing the stories of the two barbers, the man decides to go to the dirty barbershop on the east side of town. Why does he do this?

5. The Two Barbers

There is a small town in the Midwest with exactly 2 barbershops, one on each side of town. The barbershop on the west side of town is pristine. Its floors are spotless, the windows are always perfectly clear, and the

6. Blind in a Hardware Store

A blind man walks into a hardware store to buy a hammer. There are hammers hanging

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behind the front desk, but obviously the blind man isn't able to see them. And yet a few minutes later, he happily walks out of the store, having just purchased a new hammer. How did he do it?

vehicles ever cross over the bridge and so it's fine if the truck crosses. The truck continues on. Once the truck is halfway across the 10mile long bridge, a sparrow flies over to the truck and lands on the hood. The truck driver sees the bird lands and his heart drops as he realizes the bridge is about to collapse, but even after the bird lands, the bridge doesn't crumble. How was the bridge able to hold up despite the extra weight from the bird?

7. Moochers
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?

8. Truck Crossing a Bridge

A truck stops at a weigh station at the entrance to a bridge and is shown to weigh exactly 2000 lbs. The operator of the weigh station notes that the bridge can hold exactly 2000 lbs, but would crumble if it were subjected to even a fraction of an ounce more. But he says that no other

9. Dead in Water and Glass

Romeo and Juliet are found dead in a small puddle of water, surrounded by broken glass. The apartment building they are found in is located next to the city's main train station. How did they die?

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10. Rainy Day Elevators

A man lives on the 44th floor of his building. On rainy days, when he gets home from work, he takes the elevator all the way up to his floor. But on sunny days, he goes up to floor 20 and walks the rest of the way. Why does he do this?

some of the punch. He then left early. A while later, everyone else at the party drank the punch and subsequently died of poisoning. Nobody had added anything to the punch after the man had drank the punch and the man is not Superman, either!! Why didnt the man die?

11. Men in Black

A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off too but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

13. A Gun for Water, Anyone?

A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says, Thank you. and walks out.

14. The Blind Beggar

A blind beggar had a brother who died. What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? (Brother is not the answer)

12. Poison in the punch

A man went to a friends party and drank

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15. Three Switches and Three Bulbs

Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you may enter the room only once?

unconscious. Why?

18. Last Goodbye

Every morning a man kisses his wife good bye, and takes the lift to the ground floor to leave for work. One morning, as he's taking the lift, he suddenly realizes that his wife has died. How did he know ?

16. Nutty Problem

A man is replacing a wheel on his car, when he accidentally drops the four nuts used to hold the wheel on the car, and they fall into a deep drain, irretrievably lost. A passing girl offers him a solution which enables him to drive home. What is it?

19.Friday
A man rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and then left on Friday. How come?

20.Jasons Death 17. Bar Problem

A man walked into a bar, and before he could say a word, he was knocked Jason is lying dead, he has an iron bar across his back and some food in front of him. Why did he die?

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himself in any way. How was this possible?

21. Stuck under the bridge

Dingleberry Dave was driving his semi under an overpass when suddenly he came to a screeching halt. Dave wasn't paying enough attention and inadvertently drove under the overpass that was just barely as high as his truck. The semi was wedged so tightly that he could not go forward or backward. A fellow trucker came by and told him how he could easily get the semi out from under the bridge. What did he suggest?

23. Professor Bumbles Fumble ?

Professor Bumble, who is getting on in years, is growing absent minded. On the way to a lecture one day, he went through a red light and turned down a one-way street in the wrong direction. A policeman observed the entire scene but did nothing about it. How could Professor Bumble get away with such behavior?

22. Ladder
Hardy Pyle was washing windows on a highrise office building when he slipped and fell off a sixty foot ladder onto the concrete sidewalk below. Incredibly, he did not injure

24. Penguins Egg

Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?

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LOGICAL PUZZLES
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d)Anyone who lost game did not play the subsequent game. Who did not lose a game? Five boys were climbing a hill. J was

following H. R was just ahead of G. K was between G & H. They were climbing up in a column. Who was the second? 3. If a grasshopper halves the distance to a wall on every jump, how many jumps will

35 he need to reach the wall if he starts from ten feet away? 4. You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple. After a few minutes each of your friends has one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket. How? 5. You have three bags, each containing two marbles. Bag A contains two white marbles, Bag B contains two black marbles, and Bag C contains one white marble and one black marble. You pick a random bag and take out one marble. It is a white marble. What is the probability that the remaining marble from the same bag is also white? 7. 6.

36 A man is stranded on an island covered in forest. One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process. There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off. How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire) A solid, four-inch cube of wood is coated with blue paint on all six sides. Then the cube is cut into smaller one-inch cubes. These new one-inch cubes will have either three blue sides, two blue sides, one blue side, or no blue sides.

37 How many of each will there be? 8. Matthew leaves home in the morning to go to school. At the moment he leaves the house he looks at the clock in the mirror. The clock has no number indication and for this reason the boy makes a mistake in interpreting the time (mirror-image). Just assuming the clock must be out of order, Matthew cycles to school, where he arrives after twenty minutes. At that moment the clock at school shows a time that is two and a half hours later than the time that Matthew saw on the clock at home. At what time did he reach school? 10. 9.

38 A peasant is convicted in China. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say a last sentence in order to determine the way the penalty will be carried out. If the peasant lies, he will be hanged, if he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. The peasant speaks a last sentence and to everybody surprise some minutes later he is set free because the judge cannot determine his penalty. What did the peasant said? You've got two jars, one of them fits exactly 5 liters, the other one fits exactly 3 liters. How could you get exactly 4 liters with these two jars? It is allowed to spoil some water.

39 11. At a nice sun shiny day, a man rowed with his boat to an island in the middle of a big lake. On the island he caught some fish. Then he decides to return with his rowing boat. After 10 meters of rowing he looks behind him, but to his big surprise there is no island anymore. What happened to the island? 12. Suppose you have five bags filled with the same type of coins and a weighting machine. One of this bags is completely filled with fake coins, the other bags contain only real ones. A real coin weights 10 gram and a fake one 11 gram. What is the minimal number of times you need to use the weighting machine in order to find the bag with the fake coins? 15. 14. 13.

40 Two fathers and two of their sons are going to fish. In total they catch three fishes. All of them take one complete fish at home. How is this possible? Nine billiard-balls are lying in front of you. Except for one they all have the same weight. The exception is a little bit heavier than the others. What is the minimal number of times you have to use a balance in order to find the wrong billiard ball? A bookworm eats a straight way through a encyclopedia consisting of ten parts. Each part has 1000 pages. The bookworm starts on the front cover of the first part and ends on the back cover of the last part. From how many pages did the bookworm eat?

41 16. A man would like to take a new health insurance. An officer taking care of these matters says to the man: "Please tell me how many children you have." The man answers: "I have three of them." The officer: "What are the ages of your children?". The man answers: "The product of the ages is equal to 36." The officer replies: "This is not enough information Sir!". "Sorry that I was a little bit unclear, but the sum of the ages is equal to the number of shops in front of your office," says the man. The officer: "This still isn't enough information Sir!". The man replies: "My oldest child loves chocolate." The officer: "Thanks for your cooperation, I now know the ages." Are you as smart as the officer? Then give the ages of the children.

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WORD PUZZLES

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Name the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"?

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What is the longest English word that can be spelled without repeating a letter?

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What are the only four words in the English language that end in "dous."?

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Can you find an English word that has the six vowels, A, E, I, O, U and Y, in their alphabetical order? For example, there is the word "facetiously." What is another one?

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Find at least two English words that have "uu" in them.

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What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away? 9. Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word. 10. occurs in the English Rearrange these letters to form the name of a famous writer: I AM A WEAKISH SPELLER

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Name a word that has all five vowels in it, in the same order they are found in the alphabet.

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Which it?

sound

language but has no letter to represent

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1. Adding Up To 100 16 + 16 + 17 + 17 + 17 + 17 = 100 2. Animal Math Puzzle

5. Age Problem 41 years ago, when Mary was 13 and her mother was 39.

ANSWERS

38 birds (76 legs) and 16 mammals (64 legs) 3. Adding Up To 1000 8 + 8 + 8 + 88 + 888 = 1000 4. Add numbers from 1 to 9 to get 100 We can multiple solutions for this problem. Some of them are 12+3-4+5+67+8+9 = 100. 1+2+3-4+5+6+78+9=100 1+2+34-5+67-8+9=100 1+23-4+5+6+78-9=100 1+23-4+56+7+8+9=100 Try yourself to get more solutions.

6. How Many Flowers

MATH PUZZLES- ANSWERS

There are 3 flowers (1 rose, 1 tulip, and 1 daisy). 7. 24 from Spare Parts 7 * ((3 / 7) + 3) = 24 8. 100 Meter Race Andy beats Carl by 36 meters. It is tempting to guess that Andy beats Carl by 40 meters, but when Andy finishes and is 20 meters ahead of Barry, Barry is NOT 20 meters ahead of Carl (he's only 16 meters ahead), and it will take a couple more seconds before Barry increases his lead over Carl to 20 meters.

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To figure out the answer, we let Andy's speed be A meter/second. So it takes him 100/A seconds to finish the race. At this point, we know that Barry has run 80 meters (since Andy beats him by 20 meters). So Barry runs 80 meters in 100/A seconds, meaning that he is running at a speed of (80/(100/A)) meters/second, or (8A/10) meters per second. So we then know that it takes Barry 100/(8A/10) seconds to finish the race, or 125/A seconds. At this point, we know that Carl has run 80 meters (since Barry beats him by 20 meters). So Carl runs 80 meters in 125/A seconds, meaning that he is running at a speed of (80/(125/A)) meters/second, or 80A/125 meters per second. Now that we know Carl's speed, we just need to figure out how far he had run when Andy finished the race. Since Andy finished in 100/A

seconds, we can determine that Carl had run (100/A) * (80A/125) = 8000/125 = 64 meters when Andy finished the race. And so Andy beat him by (100 -64) = 36 meters. 9. Average Salary Let's call the workers: Worker 1, Worker 2, Worker 3, Worker 4 and Worker 5. Worker 1 picks a random positive number N (which he doesn't tell anybody), add his salary to it, and writes this number on a piece of paper which he hands to Worker 2. Worker 2 adds his salary to this number, writes the new number on a different piece of paper, and hands it to Worker 3. Worker 3 does the same and hands a new paper to Worker 4, who does the same and hands a new paper to Worker 5, who does the

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same and hands a new paper to Worker 4, who does the same and hands a new paper to Worker 5, who does the same and hands a new paper back to Worker 1. The number written on this final piece of paper will be (N + the-sum-of-everybodys-salary). So Worker 1 simply subtracts N from this number and divides this final number by 5, which is the average salary. At no point did any worker gain any information about anyone else's salary. 10. Find the number 45 11. How many Cigarettes ? 8+1=9

RIDDLES - ANSWERS

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1. The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.

5. Eye (rhymes with "I".) 6. Cut it as you normally cut a cake, in half with one

2. Most people read "The cow ate the grass" when they first try this. However, "the" actually appears twice in the sentence, which is easily missed due to the way our brains look for and find familiar patterns - even when they are not there. 3. 1.5 4. The letter F appears six times in that sentence. Most people think there are only four (although those who speak English as a second language seem to do better at this). For some reason the brain doesn't identify the Fs in "of".

cut, and again with another, resulting in four pieces. Then cut it horizontally in half. This third cut creates eight pieces total. 7. It does not contain the letter "e", which is the most common letter in the English language. 8. 18 Peppers 9. Silence 10. Coffin 11. The letter M

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12. Two Apples 13. Record 14. Shadow 15. In a Dictionary 16. The temperature 17. The letter e 18. Envelope 19. Volcano 20. Pearl

21. Smile 22. Promise 23. Secret 24. An Echo 25. Tongue

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1. Hanging above water He stood on a tall block of ice and put the noose around his neck. Once the ice melted, he was hung, and all that was left was a puddle of water on the ground. 2. Doctor cant operate

LATERAL THINKING PUZZLES ANSWERS

The doctor is the boy's mother. 3. Towards the sunset The man was facing forward, but the woman was running backwards. The man's right hand was holding the woman's right hand. They both veered in the same geographic direction, but it was the man's left and the woman's right because the woman was running backwards.

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4. Defending the Bridge William is on the east side of the bridge, facing the West side of the kingdom, while Ethan is on the west side of the bridge, facing the East side of the kingdom. So William and Ethan are facing each other, and can see each other's faces. 5. The Two Barbers Because there are only two barbers in the town, the barbers must cut each-other's hair. The barber on the west side of town has a nice haircut, so the east-side barber must be a good barber. On the other hand, the barber on the east side of town has ragged hair, meaning the west-side barber must not be very good. So the man goes to the east-side barber to get a better haircut.

6. Blind in a Hardware Store He walks up the front desk where the clerk is working and says "I'd like to buy a hammer."

7. Moochers Your name.

8. Truck Crossing a Bridge During the first 5 miles across the bridge, the truck burned enough gas to account for the weight of the sparrow, and thus it was not over weight on the bridge.

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9. Dead in Water and Glass Romeo and Juliet are fish. A passing train rattled the shelf their tank was sitting on and knocked it off of the shelf. The tank broke and the fish died from being out of the water. 10. Rainy Day Elevators The man is very short and cannot reach button "44" in the elevator on sunny days. On rainy days he has his umbrella with him and is able to use it to press the button. 11. Men in Black It was day time

12. Poison in the punch The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch. 13. A Gun for Water, Anyone? The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock.. It worked and cured the hiccups, so the man thanked the barman. 14. The Blind Beggar The blind beggar was the sister of her brother who died.

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15. Three Switches and Three Bulbs Switch one light on for a minute; turn it off and turn another on. Go into the room and feel the off-bulbs. The warm one is connected to the first switch, the on-bulb is connected to the second.

18. Last Goodbye His wife was on a life support machine in his apartment. When he was taking the lift, the electricity went out, and he realized that his wife would then die. 19.Friday

16. Nutty Problem Use one nut from each of the other three wheels. 17. Bar Problem The bar in question was an iron bar.

The mans horse was called Friday. 20.Jasons Death Jason is a mouse, in a mouse trap.

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21. Stuck under the bridge He told Dingleberry Dave to let some air out of his tires. This would make the truck lower and allow him to pass through. 22. Ladder He was standing on the bottom rung. 23. Professor Bumbles Fumble ? He was on foot. 24. Penguins Egg The natives are penguins

LOGICAL PUZZLES ANSWERS

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Mrs.Bee did not lose a game G. The order in which they are

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2/3 (not 1/2) You know that you do not have Bag B (two black marbles) so there are three possibilities You chose Bag A, first white marble. The other The other marble other will will be be be white white black You chose Bag A, second white marble. marble You chose Bag C, the white marble. The

climbing is RGKHJ 3. He will never reach the wall. If each jump only goes half the distance, the grasshopper will get closer and closer to the wall but never actually get there. 4. You give an apple each to your first nine friends, and a basket with an apple to your tenth friend. Each friend has an apple, and one of them has it in a basket.

marble

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So 2 out of 3 possibilities are white. Why not 1/2? You are selecting marbles, not bags.

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The man picks up a piece of wood and lights it from the fire on the west end of the island. He then quickly carries it near the east end of he island and starts a new fire. The wind will cause that fire to burn out the eastern end and he can then shelter in the burnt area. The man survives the fire, but dies of starvation, with all the food in the forest burnt.

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The difference between the real time and the time of the mirror image is two hours and ten minutes (two and a half hours, minus the twenty minutes of cycling).Therefore, the original time on the clock at home that morning could only have been five minutes past seven: 7:05 and 4:55 The difference between these clocks is exactly 2 hours and ten minutes (note that also five minutes past one can be mirrored in a similar way, but this is not in the morning!).

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There are 24 with one side colored, 8 with three sides colored, 24 with two sides colored, and 8 with no sides colored.

Conclusion: The boy reaches school at five minutes past seven plus twenty minutes of cycling, which is twenty-five minutes past seven!.

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The peasant said: "I shall be hanged!" If the peasant was lying, he would be hanged. But that's what the peasant was saying. So he speaks the truth. But if he speaks the truth, he would be beheaded, so then he was not speaking the truth. So it is impossible for the judge to determine whether the peasant speaks the truth or not. So therefore the judge cannot determine the penalty and sets the peasant free. 11.

from the 5 liter jar in the 3 liter jar. Then fill the five liter jar again completely. Finally fill the 3 liter jar completely using the 5 liter jar. One liter still fits, since there were already 2 liters in that jar. So then 4 liters remain in the 5 liter jar. You'll get exactly 4 liters in this way. Of course the island is still there. The man is just looking in the wrong direction. When you are rowing, you are always going backwards.

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Fill the 5 liter jar completely. Then fill the 3 liter jar using the 5 liter one 12. Take 1 coin from the first bag, 2 from the second, 3 out of the third, 4 from the fourth and 5 coins from the fifth bag. Now weigh all these coins completely. Now there are 2 liters left in the 5 liter jar. Now you empty the 3 liter jar and put the 2 liters

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together at once. If the fake coins are in the first bag, the result of the weighting will be 11 + 20 + 30 + 40 + 50 = 151 gram. Likewise, if the fake coins are in respectively the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth bag, the result of the weighting will be 152, 153, 154 and 155 gram. Hence in this way it is possible to find the bag with the fake coins with weighting only once. 13. The people which went for fishing, are grandfather, father and son. Then there are two fathers and two sons.

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Only two times! Divide all nine billiard-balls in groups of three balls. Put two of these groups on the balance. Now there are two possibilities. Either the balance indicates a difference or it is indicates that both groups have equal weight. In both cases you can find the heavy group, in the first case it is one the balance, in the second case it is not. From the heavy group you select two balls, and you put one ball apart. Put these two selected balls on the balance. If the balance indicates an equality, the heavy ball lies

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apart, if it does not the balance points you to the heavy ball. 15. Assuming that the encyclopedia is ordered in the usual way, the row of books starts with the back side of part one and ends at the front side of part ten. If the bookworm starts at the front cover of part one it does not has to go through part one anymore, but starts immediately in part two. The worm follows the red way until part nine. Then the worm is on the back side of part ten.

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The product of the ages is 36. Using this one can make the following combination of ages: 1,36, 1 sum = 38 1,18, 2 sum = 22 1,12, 3 sum = 16 1, 9, 4 sum = 14 1, 6, 6 sum = 13 2, 9, 2 sum = 13 2, 6, 3 sum = 11 3, 3, 4 sum = 10 After the man had said that the product

So the the bookworm eated from 8000 pages.

of the ages is equal to 36, the officer didn't have enough information. Then he was told that the sum is equal

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to number of shops in front of the office. He replied by saying that this still isn't enough information. So the sum of the ages should be 13, because otherwise he would have known the ages immediately. The last statement is that that the oldest child loves chocolate. So there is an oldest child. Hence the officer concludes that the ages of the children are 2, 2 and 9 years.

WORD PUZZLES ANSWERS

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1. Dreamt.

7. Uncopyrightable (15 letters).

2. Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

8. Abstemiously (let me know if you find others).

9. UND(ERGRO)UND

3. There are at least four words: Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, and residuum. 10. William Shakespeare

4. Charcoal.

5. There are at least two: facetious and abstemious.

6. The sound found in the following words: vision, version, treasure, pleasure.

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The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete. Most lipstick is partially made of fish scales. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. The human brain is 80% water. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

FUN FACTS

By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.

Babies start dreaming even before theyre born

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Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie. Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Did You Know? Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Did You Know? 25% of your bones are located in your feet. Did You Know? 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet. Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room! All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.

Did You Know? Coca-Cola was originally green. Did You Know? It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time. The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. The search engine Google got its name from the word googol, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it. The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.

The

average

human

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enough: Sulfur to kill all the fleas on an average dog. Iron to make a 3 inch nail. Fat to make 7 bars of soap. Carbon to make 900 pencils. Phosphorous heads. Potassium to fire a toy cannon. Water to fill a 38 litre/10 gallon tank. The most commonly found blood-type in the world is O positive while the rarest is AB negative. In some food the products, reddish and even is shampoos, coloring to make 2,200 match

produced by the crushing of the tropical Cochineal beetle.

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10% of your bodyweight consists of bacteria. The human heart creates enough

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The fingerprints of koala bears are

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. Porcupines float in water.

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Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

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Dalmatians are born without spots. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
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Mens shirts have the buttons on the right, but womens shirts have the Human hair and fingernails continue to buttons on the left. grow after death. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their cell to circle the whole body. lower eyelids. The plastic things on the end of The reason honey is so easy to digest is shoelaces are called aglets. that its already been digested by a bee. The only part of the body that has no Roosters cannot crow if they cannot blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It extend their necks. takes in oxygen directly from the air. The color blue has a calming effect. It In most watch advertisements the time causes the brain to release calming displayed on the watch is 10:10 because hormones. then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).

When you blush, the lining of your Colgate faced big obstacle marketing stomach also turns red. toothpaste in Spanish speaking It cost 7 million dollars to build the countries. Colgate translates into the Titanic and 200 million to make a film command go hang yourself. about it. The only 2 animals that can see behind The attachment of the human skin to itself without turning its head are the muscles is what causes dimples. rabbit and the parrot. The sound you hear when you crack your Intelligent people have more zinc and knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen copper in their hair. gas bubbles bursting. Whip makes a cracking sound because its When hippos are upset, their sweat turns tip moves faster than the speed of red. sound. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet

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Did You know that...

There where no plastic bags in India before 1985? The longest station name on the Indian Railways is Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta? India is the world's largest mango producer? The biggest ant in India is about an inch? India used sugar before any other country? Before 1896 India was the only diamonds producing country in the world? The first bathrooms is said to have been built in India about 4500 years ago? India is a home of 200 million cows ?
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