Half Full Or Half Empty

There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. 'This barrel of wine is more than half full,' said Curly. 'No it's not,' says Mo. 'It's less than half full.' Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?




Similar Riddles

I don't get anymore wetter, no matter how much rain falls on me.

Asked by Neha on 22 Jan 2025


By what process could you make a 'Tea-Table' into food?

Asked by Neha on 16 Aug 2023

Two guards were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?"

How did he know his companion was smiling?

Asked by Neha on 24 Apr 2022


Count the number of triangles in the picture below:

Counting You Should Know

Asked by Neha on 16 Jul 2024

In a science lab, a petri dish hosts a healthy colony of yeast for an experiment. Now every minute, all the yeast cells divide into two. At noon, there was just a single cell of yeast and at 1:22, the Petri dish was half full. Can you calculate when the dish will be full of yeast?

Asked by Neha on 23 Jun 2021

When I go in I might cause pain. I cause you to spit and ask you not to swallow. I can fill your hole. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 20 Feb 2026


I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 13 Feb 2022

Bay of Bengal is in which state?

Bay of Bengal

Asked by Neha on 12 Mar 2021

Can you find out which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321?

Asked by Neha on 27 Mar 2023


Two friends were betting. One said to the other, "The coin will be flipped twenty times and each time the coin lands on the head, I will give you $2 and each time it lands on the tale, you will give me $3." After flipping the coin twenty times not a single penny was exchanged among them.

How many times did the coin land on heads?

Asked by Neha on 28 Jan 2025

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Out of the Box

The phrase “thinking outside the box” was popularised from the solution to a topographical puzzle involving 9 dots in a box shape.