1. Secret
8. To work
9. One - the last brick
10. Strainer
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1. Secret
8. To work
9. One - the last brick
10. Strainer
Between Shakthi & Gunther, they have solved five. A circle has a centre. so try No. 6 again.
2. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?
3. What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library.
5. What happened in the middle of the twentieth century that will not happen again for 4,000 years?
6. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
7. What has to be broken before it can be used?
7. A Coconut???
2 Cateract :-)
Nice riddles
3: Intelligence!
6: Eternity!
Both Sush & Fridge are correct although those are not the answers I expected. Skanthavelu!!
OK, I shall wind up this one....
2. Darkness
3. Yellow Pages
5. The year 1961 can be read upside down and that won't happen again until 6009!
6. Vadai or Donut
7. Egg
1. What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?
2. What has feet and legs, and nothing else?
3. There is a man standing over a dead body in a coffin, and another man walks in and asks, who's in the coffin. The first man replies, brothers and sisters, I have none, but this man's father is my fathers son. Who's in the coffin?
4. There are 2 guards. One tells the truth and one lies. There are also 2 doors. One leads to Heaven and the other leads to the devils playground. One guard is in front of each door. You can only ask the guards ONE question and you have to ask the same question to both guards. What you are trying to find out is which door leads to Heaven and which door leads to the devil's playground.
5. Two boxers are in a boxing match (regular boxing, not kick boxing). The fight is scheduled for 12 rounds but ends after 6 rounds, after one boxer knocks out the other boxer. Yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible?
2: A table??
Riddles are very hard to figure out.. But fun! :)
Kelvi
1. to cover cows
Kanthavelu 0
Fridge 1
2. A ruler or measuring tape?
3. coffin for himself
3. no, not a coffin for himself.
The man's son is in the coffin.
4.Your question should be 'if i ask the other guard, what would be his answer'?
K.N....
5.Women's Boxing ???
padichadhu....
1 Mr.X is standing behind Mr.Y and
at the same time Mr.Y is standing behind Mr X.
Hows this possible?
2.Consider a silver and a golden pot,one of them containing a treasure.
Assume that you can determine from the text prints which pot contains the treasure.
The text prints on the pots are:
The silver pot: "This pot is empty."
The golden pot: "Exactly one of these texts is true."
Q : Which pot contains the treasure?
3.Idhu konjam Kadi...
What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil?
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you die?
Senthil..
1. X and Y must be standing back-to-back
Sush, no. 3 is correct.
no. 4 should be - Ask each one "What will the other one say is the door to heaven?" They should answer the same. Go in the opposite door they say.
Senthil is also correct, leaving no. 2. for which the answer is stocking.
Senthil's puzzles
2. The silver pot holds the treasure
a. A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but nine died, how many did he have left?
b. A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
c. A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
d. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
e. Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?
f. Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
g. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
h. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
i. How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?
j. I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be.
E. A man cannot marry his anyone of his widow because, he would be dead if she wear a widow.
G. is it a priest.
H. Moses tokk none, but noah did.
D. mount everest, it was just not discovered.
A. 9
Excuse the poor english, I need coffee.
All correct Fridge.
As you said you need coffee. :)
F. Clara Clutter would have been born in Australia, where it is summer in Dec!!
I. there cannot be any dirt since the hole is dug by removing the dirt..
B. Bear will be the colour what it is supposed to be: black or brown...
cheers,
J.FEW ???
Friends..
Regarding other
both Sash KN are correct..
Sash...1
KN.....1
Only 3rd left....Heres another one..
4)
Mr.X wants to Share his Birthday Cake(Normal round Shaped) among all EIGHT friends.
The Condition is Only Three Cuts are allowed ?
Is it possible to divide the cake into eight equal parts from 3 tries ?
Can you help him out in his party ?
Cut the cake into half....one cut (two pieces)
Place the halves one on top of another and cut into half again ....2nd cut (four pieces)
Now place all four pieces one atop the other and cut into half again.....3rd cut (eight pieces)
The following were not answered or answered incorrectly
b. A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
c. A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
Gunther You r Correct by definition.. ….But..
Actually...I missed out a condition ….Sorry
Actually the pieces shouldnot be displaced..from their positions…
4) Cutting a cake into 8 part with 3 cuts without displacing the pieces ?………..
Another kadi…
6)There was a man in an eleven story building. He jumped through the window, but did not get hurt. (Not even a scratch) Why didn't he get hurt?
5)
There are number of fuses.(strings).
Each fuse takes exactly ONE HOUR to burn.
The fuses are uneven ..it doesn’t burn uniformly ..Say first half can burn for 10 mins
..remaining would completed for 50 mins.
Assume that u have got Lighter…
Can you measure the Time interval of 45 mins ??
Senthil, Senthil
OK, the cake...
First cut - cut a circle halfway between the centre and circumference, to have one small round cake and another larger ring of cake.
2nd cut - cut across (top to bottom)
3rd cut - cut across (left to right)
You now have eight pieces. You didn't say the pieces must be same shape or size! I hope you are not going to put another condition. :)
11 storey building
He jumped out of the window from the ground floor of the 11 storey building. You didn't say that he was on the 11th storey! No new conditions please. :)
Fuses...
45 mins? Use your watch. :)
Color of bear...
Must be white polar bear in north pole.
6: He had a parachute on.
ok, the answer to: A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done.
is POTATO
Want more riddles?
Sure! :)
NEW BATCH - Some easy ones.
1. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
2. If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove, a match and a gas lamp which do you light first?
3. Is an old hundred dollar bill better than a new one?
4. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
5. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
6. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
7. Take off my skin -- I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
8. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wife and 2 kids. What does he weigh?
9. What can you catch but not throw?
10. What crime is punishable if attempted, but is not punishable if committed?
1. Rooter doesn't lay eggs
2. Match
3. Yep! $100 is better than $1 (but only if you are receiving, not giving) :-)
5. All
6. Size of holes
7. A)Onion b) a hissing Cobra :-)
8. Meat
9. Cold
10. Suicide
Cake cutting question
1st cut = Diameter
2nd cut = 4 quadrants (by disecting the diameter)
3rd cut = cut across the side of the cake (cross section). Voila! You have 8 equal pieces
Gunther...1
You are unconditionally correct for cake
problem as
Piece of cake... 1
Guess still FUSES problem left ???
Cheers !!!
Fuse problem:
Light the slow burning end and let it burn 4/5 of the way from the center. That should take 40 mins.
Now light the fast burning end and let it burn halfway from the original midpoint. That should take 5 minutes.
I think the same puzzle was posted in some other thread.
Hi MV..
I didnt know it was posted earler...
Anyway...i am afraid its not the answer.
you cant predict which end of fuse is slow burning or fast one...I gave that 50-10 to illustarte that All fuses are UNuniform in thinckness along the length and wont burn predictably along intervals.
Only thing one knows is that each of the fuses burns for exactly for an hour.
Okay..
I have a number of fuses - good. Randomize their orientation, to make sure that all slow burning ends are NOT lined up the same way. Ideally we want half of them lined up in opposite orientation.
Mark the set at 1/4th intervals.
Next light up the suckers at one end - say left - so the fire of the buring fuses advances from left to right.
One half of the set would reach the 3/4th mark in
~ 45 minutes and the other half of the set would not have reached even the half way mark.
So, wait for one half (roughly) of the set to reach the 3/4th mark.
Kelvi Nayagan's riddles.
**No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
>>>> Silence.
All others answered by 'piece of cake'.
Good Shekar.
Also "secret"
Let Senthil wrap up his questions before I post a fresh set.