Friday 12 July 2013

Riddles part ONE

Below are nine riddles for you to puzzle over. If you think you know the answers to any of them, put them in your comments. Look out for part two coming soon... which has the official answers!!


1.) There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?


2.) What would you be sure to find in the middle of Toronto?


3.) What word has 5 letters but is pronounced like only one letter?


4.) If it takes 6 men 6 days to dig 6 holes, how long will it take 3 men to dig half a hole?


5.) While driving home one day, I came upon the following problem. An entire town had been painted black; the roads, pavements, buildings, hedges, and everything that did not move had been painted black. In addition, my vehicle's headlights were not working, there was no moon, and power was off in the area, so there were no street or house lights around. At that moment, I entered a curve where a solid black dog (deaf, and thus unaware of the approaching car) was sitting in the road. He had his back to me, so there was not even a glint in his eye, yet I was able to swerve round him quite easily and without danger. How was this achieved?


6.) Good at math? Try this one....

1=3
2=3
3=5
4=4
5=4
6=3
7=5
8=5
9=4
10=3

So what does
11=?
12=?


7.) A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?


8.) What are the minimum number of modifications needed to make the equation: 1 + 1 + 1 = 142 true?


9.) We are five little things of a similar sort. You will find us all on a tennis court. What are we?

8 comments:

  1. 2. The letter 'O'.
    4. You cannot dig half a hole.

    I'll think about the rest…

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    1. Awesome. I shall not tell you if you are wrong or right until I have posted the answers. :-)

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  2. 1. Place the jugs into the barrel?
    2. The letter 'o'
    3. queue
    4. Either you can't dig half a hole, or (mathematically) it would take them one day.
    5. It was daylight.
    6. Not sure. I'll have to come back to this one…
    7. Two.
    8. One. Change one of the pluses to a 4.
    9. The vowels.

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    1. As I said above, I shall not tell you if you are wrong or right until the answers get posted.
      But it looks like you spent some time on them... Keep trying with number six. It will come. (hopefully) :-)

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  3. 1. Freeze the water.
    6. 11=3, 12=5

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    1. Good try! Today you shall learn if you were right or not. :-)

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  4. 1.Freeze the water
    2.The letter o
    3.Queue
    4.It depends if its a twelve hour or twenty-four hour day
    but it could be two or four hours
    5.It was daytime
    6.11=3 12=5
    7.Three
    8.Change the plus sign into a four
    9.Vowels

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    1. Have a look at the following post to see the which ones you got right...
      http://www.blessingsofbonnie.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/riddles-part-two-answers.html

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