Chicken Selling

A Shopkeeper sold a few chickens to four different customers on a particular day. It was such that each customer purchased half of the remaining chickens and half the chicken more.

Can you find out how many chicken were sold by the shopkeeper on that day if we tell you that the fourth customer bought a single chicken ?




Similar Riddles

Can you identify the hidden rebus in the image below?

Name the Coded Animal

Asked by Neha on 01 Feb 2021


A girl was sitting in her hotel room when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door and found that a man was standing outside. The man said, "Oh! I am really sorry, I thought this was my room." He then walked through the corridor to the elevator. The girl did not know the man. She closed her door and called security asking them to apprehend the man. What made her suspicious of that man? He might have been genuinely mistaken.

Asked by Neha on 27 Jan 2024

A man says, "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is that man?

Asked by Neha on 03 Jul 2023


Your last good ping-pong ball fell into a narrow metal pipe embedded one foot deep in concrete.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, shoe laces, and plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?

Asked by Neha on 10 Nov 2024

Next Number in the Series,

5, 16, 49, 104, ?

Asked by Neha on 31 Dec 2025

How many triangles are there on the puzzle below?

Let

Asked by Neha on 10 Feb 2024


A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

Asked by Neha on 18 Feb 2024

A B C D E F G H

These are the letters given to you. Now you have to find out the letter that comes two to the right of the letter which is immediately to the left of the letter that comes three to the right of the letter that comes midway between the letter two to the left of the letter C and the letter immediately to the right of the letter F.

Asked by Neha on 25 Jun 2021

People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 08 Mar 2025


I am a type of word that is spelt incorrectly or used differently, on purpose for humour. What am I?
Hint 1: You can find me in a joke.
Hint 2: I am a play on words.

Asked by Neha on 28 Sep 2025

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Word ladder puzzle

The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.