Can it be possible to build a house that has all its four walls facing towards the South?
A professor thinks of two consecutive numbers between 1 and 10.
'A' knows the 1st number and 'B' knows the second number
A: I do not know your number.
B: Nor do I know your number.
A: Now I know.
What are the four solutions for this?
Can you count the number of seconds in a year?
Clue: You need to bother about calculation.
On rolling two dices (six-sided normal dice) together, what is the probability that the first one comes up with a 2 and the second one comes up with a 5?
What Adam and Eve do not have but the rest of the people have?
Luis Garavito killed Density x Volume.
Who is Luis Garavito ?
Two batsman each on 94 runs. Seven runs needed to win in last 3 balls. Both make 100*. How?
Three men in a cafe order a meal the total cost of which is $15. They each contribute $5. The waiter takes the money to the chef who recognises the three as friends and asks the waiter to return $5 to the men.
The waiter is not only poor at mathematics but dishonest and instead of going to the trouble of splitting the $5 between the three he simply gives them $1 each and pockets the remaining $2 for himself.
Now, each of the men effectively paid $4, the total paid is therefore $12. Add the $2 in the waiters pocket and this comes to $14. Where has the other $1 gone from the original $15?
The day after tomorrow will be three days before Tuesday. Can you find out what is today?
An inspection by the superintendent of St. Joseph School was scheduled on the next day. The class teacher Jenifer knew that he would be asking questions from her class and she would have to choose a pupil to answer. To offer a perfect impression over him, the teacher explained certain instructions to the students to maximise the chances of getting correct answer every time.
What did she say to the students?
It was a dark stormy night and a couple were in a car driving madly to a city. The car broke down and the husband had to go get help from someone who spoke his language. He was afraid to leave his wife alone in the car so he locked the car before leaving. When he came back, the car was in the same state as he had left it but his wife was dead, there was blood on the floor and there was a stranger in the car. What happened?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
