#1 - Famous Riddle
On my way to St. Ives I saw a man with 7 wives. Each wife had 7 sacks. Each sack had 7 cats. Each cat had 7 kittens. Kitten, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
1, Only Me
#2 - Crime puzzle
There is a certain crime, that if it is attempted, is punishable, but if it is committed, is not punishable. What is the crime?
Suicide
#3 - 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?
She hung herself using big Ice slabs, which are now melted and hence puddle of water.
#4 - Hardest Balance Logic Puzzle
You are given a set of scales and 12 marbles. The scales are of the old balance variety. That is, a small dish hangs from each end of a rod that is balanced in the middle. The device enables you to conclude either that the contents of the dishes weigh the same or that the dish that falls lower has heavier contents than the other.
The 12 marbles appear to be identical. In fact, 11 of them are identical, and one is of a different weight. Your task is to identify the unusual marble and discard it. You are allowed to use the scales three times if you wish, but no more.
Note that the unusual marble may be heavier or lighter than the others. You are asked to both identify it and determine whether it is heavy or light.
So that the following plan can be followed, let us number the coins from 1 to 12. For the first weighing let us put on the left pan coins 1,2,3,4 and on the right pan coins 5,6,7,8.
There are two possibilities. Either they balance, or they don't. If they balance, then the different coin is in the group 9,10,11,12. So for our second one possibility is to weigh 9,10,11 against 1,2,3
(1) They balance, in which case you know 12 is the different coin, and you just weigh it against any other to determine whether it is heavy or light.
(2) 9,10,11 is heavy. In this case, you know that the different coin is 9, 10, or 11, and that that coin is heavy. Simply weigh 9 against 10; if they balance, 11 is the heavy coin. If not, the heavier one is the heavy coin.
(3) 9,10,11 is light. Proceed as in the step above, but the coin you're looking for is the light one.
That was the easy part.
What if the first weighing 1,2,3,4 vs 5,6,7,8 does not balance? Then any one of these coins could be the different coin. Now, in order to proceed, we must keep track of which side is heavy for each of the following weighings.
Suppose that 5,6,7,8 is the heavy side. We now weigh 1,5,6 against 2,7,8. If they balance, then the different coin is either 3 or 4. Weigh 4 against 9, a known good coin. If they balance then the different coin is 3, otherwise it is 4. The direction of the tilts can tell us whwther the offending coin is heavier or lighter.
Now, if 1,5,6 vs 2,7,8 does not balance, and 2,7,8 is the heavy side, then either 7 or 8 is a different, heavy coin, or 1 is a different, light coin.
For the third weighing, weigh 7 against 8. Whichever side is heavy is the different coin. If they balance, then 1 is the different coin. Should the weighing of 1,5, 6 vs 2,7,8 show 1,5,6 to be the heavy side, then either 5 or 6 is a different heavy coin or 2 is a light different coin. Weigh 5 against 6. The heavier one is the different coin. If they balance, then 2 is a different light coin.
#5 - Frog In The Well Riddle
A frog fell on a bottom of the well.
The well is 30 feet deep.
During day time, the frog jumps 5feet while at night when the frog sleeps he slip back 4feet.
In how many days frog will come out from the well ?
26days
In 25days, he will jumo 25feet and den next five feet will make him out of the well
#6 - Riddle Problem
Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be ?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.
#7 - Tricky Maths Problem
I drive at an average speed of 30 miles per hour to the railroad station each morning and just catch my train. On a particular morning there was a lot of traffic and at the halfway point I found I had averaged only 15 miles per hour. How fast must I drive for the rest of the way to catch my train?
The train is just about to leave the station and there is no way I will be able to catch it this time.
#8 - Logical Thinking Riddle
I have 100 coins in my wallet.
What is the minimum number of coin(s), i would be required in order to make sure each coin touched exactly three other coins.
4
3 placed flat on the table in a triangle(touching each other) and put the fourth one on top of them in the middle.
#9 - Two Door Riddle
You find yourself in a strange place guarded by two guards.One of the guard always say truth while other always lies.You don't know the identity of the two.You can ask only one question to go out from there. What should you ask?
If you ask the guard who always tells the truth, he would tell you the other guard would point you to the door of death. If you ask the guard who always lies, he would tell you the opposite door of the truth-telling guard and point you to the door of death. In either case, both guards will point to the door of death so you should choose the other one.
#10 - Answer This Joke Riddle
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Because seven was hungry and 'seven ate nine' (7, 8, 9).