A shopkeeper allows people to buy a cold drink bottle in exchange for five empty bottles. A guy had a party at home and spent 77 cold drink bottles at the party. Now he has 77 empty bottles with him.
How many bottles do you think he can buy in exchange for those 77 empty bottles?
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?
A fresher was sitting in an interview. The interviewer said, "This is the last question of your interview. Tell me the accurate position of the centre of this table where your resume is kept."
How can he answer this question? What will you have answered to such a question?
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.