Best Riddles of December 2012

#1 - Sherlock Holmes Riddle - How Women Die

British Police inspect a room where there are no windows, no doors, no tables and is almost empty except there is just a puddle of water. They found a dead woman who obviously hung herself from the ceiling, but they are not able to figure out how this had happened.

Sherlock and John Watson entered the crime scene and were easily able to solve the case.

How did the women die?

#2 - Logic Problem Puzzle

A donkey travels the exact same distance daily.
strangely 2 of his legs travels 40 kilometers and the remaining two travels 41 kilometers.
Obviously 2 donkey legs cannot be a 1km ahead of the other 2.

The donkey is perfectly normal. So how come this be true ?

#3 - Logical Puzzle Asked In Interview

I organized a small get together at my home.
In the party , i have a barrel with some whiskey in it.

Suddenly Guest 1 say 'I bet this barrel of whiskey is more than half full'.
'No, its less than half full' Guest 2 replied.

I don't have any measuring instrument and without removing whiskey from it , how can i determine which of the guest is right ?

#4 - Logic Problem

There is a bag which have 21 blue balls and 23 red balls. You also have 22 red balls outside the bag.

Randomly remove two balls from the bag.
* If they are of different colors, put the blue one back in the bag.
* If they are the same color, take them out and put a red marble back in the bag.

Repeat this until only one marble remains in the bag.


What is the color of the sole marble left in the bag ?

#5 - Maths Operator Riddle

Can you get a sum of 1000 using sixteen 4s and only an addition operator

#6 - What Does This Text Means

What does below text mean?

R+R

#7 - Hourglass Time Puzzle

There are 2 sand hourglasses.
The small one can measure 5 hours and the large one can measure 7 hours.

How can we measure 16 hours with 2 sand hourglasses running together ?

#8 - Tricky Problem

Neha was born in 1855.
she just had his 30th birth day today how did that happen ?

#9 - Maths Algebra Puzzle

Replace all '*' with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to make below statement true.

* *
x *
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* * *

#10 - Maths Aptitude Puzzle

A octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind ?