Escape from Monster

A swan sits at the center of a perfectly circular lake. At an edge of the lake stands a ravenous monster waiting to devour the swan. The monster can not enter the water, but it will run around the circumference of the lake to try to catch the swan as soon as it reaches the shore. The monster moves at 4 times the speed of the swan, and it will always move in the direction along the shore that brings it closer to the swan the quickest. Both the swan and the the monster can change directions in an instant.
The swan knows that if it can reach the lake's shore without the monster right on top of it, it can instantly escape into the surrounding forest.

How can the swan successfully escape?




Similar Riddles

What has 88 keys?

Asked by Neha on 09 Jul 2025


I know there are two methods by using three time the same number with a plus(+) operator , you can make sum as 60.

One of them is 20+20+20.

whats the other way ?

Asked by Neha on 28 May 2024

Imagine a box with two cogwheels, one big with 24 teeth and one small with 8 teeth. The big one is firmly attached to the center of the box which means it does not turn or move while the small one rotates around the big one.

How many times do you think that the smaller wheel will turn compared to the box when it turns once around the big one?

Magical Wheels

Asked by Neha on 22 Sep 2024


Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?

Asked by Neha on 29 Sep 2021

Find out the number of circles in the given picture having Illusion

How many circles do you see?

Asked by Neha on 20 Apr 2021

If all Goats are Sheep and all Sheep are Deers, are all Deers Goats ?

Asked by Neha on 16 Jan 2021


This is a classy optical illusion puzzle. What more you can find except bricks in the image below?

Brick Optical Illusion

Asked by Neha on 05 Jan 2025

You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer, how can you boil the egg for only two minutes?

Asked by Neha on 17 May 2021

Find out a multi-digit number that if multiplied by the number 9 or any of its multiplications products (i.e. 18, 27, 36, 45,..) will result in the multiplication factor repeated (n) number of times.

Asked by Neha on 08 Jan 2021


What is the below Rebus indicate?

Read the Indication

Asked by Neha on 19 Sep 2023

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Crossword

The day before the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses.