Recent Riddles & Brain Teasers

If we add four times the age of John four years from now to five times his age five years from now we get ten times his current age.

How old will John be two years from now?

I am a prime number.
The double of myself is equal to the square of me.

which number am I?

You have two buckets of 11 liters and 6 litres.
How can you measure exactly 8 litres?

I go up and I go down.
I go up towards the beautiful sky and down toward the green ground.
I am present tense.
I am past tense too
Children love me.

Who Am I?

The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

Consider all the numbers between 1 and 1 million. Among all these numbers, there is something very special about the number 8 and the number 2202. What is it?

Can you count the number of blocks in the picture below?

A research team went to a village somewhere between the jungles of Africa. Luckily for them, they reached the day when quite an interesting custom was to be performed. The custom was performed once a year as they confirmed and was performed in order to collect the taxes from every male of the region.

The taxes were to be paid in the form of grains. Everyone must pay pounds of grain equaling his respective age. This means a 20-year-old will have to pay 20 pounds of grain and a 30-year-old will pay 30 pounds of grain and so on.

The chief who collects the tax has 7 weights and a large 2-pan scale to weigh. But there is another custom that the chief can weigh only three of the seven weights.

Can you find out the weights of the seven weights? Also, what is the maximum age of the man that can be weighed for the payment of taxes?

Why do you find that most of the buildings are deprived of the 13th floor?