Fire in a Room

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?




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A man lives on the fifteenth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator, or if it was raining that day, he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up five flights of stairs to his apartment. Can you explain why he does this?

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In a secret society, a buried chamber can be accessed only via a secret password. The password is seven characters long and comprises of just letters and numbers.

You find a code that can help you in cracking the password. The code says "You force heaven to be empty".

Can you deduce the password from that?

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What do you call a fish without an eye?

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Use only one mathematical symbol and all numbers (0-9) to get a sum of 99

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Can you count the number of squares in the given picture?

How Many Squares you Find

Asked by Neha on 13 Feb 2024

There is a straight highway. Four different villages lie on that highway. The distance between them is different. The third village is 60km away from the first village; the fourth is 40 km away from the second; the third is 10 km near to the fourth that it is to the second.

Can you calculate the distance between the fourth and the first village ?

Asked by Neha on 23 Mar 2023


The doctor advised his patient to take a tablet after every fifteen minutes. He gave him five tablets in total.

How much time will he take to have all the five tablets?

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Can you identify the famous TV character from the rebus below?

Uncover TV character

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Make the seating arrangement of 10 children in such a way that there are 5 rows with 4 children in each row.

Asked by Neha on 18 Mar 2026


Here is a Swiss Cross. You have to make two straight cuts in the figure so that it is divided into four congruent pieces. Also, you should be able to join these pieces into a square then. Can you accept this challenge?

Swiss Cross Riddle

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