Measure the Odd

You have two buckets - one holds exactly 5 gallons and the other 3 gallons. How can you measure 4 gallons of water into the 5 gallon bucket?

(Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.)




Similar Riddles

Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

Asked by Neha on 08 Jul 2023


Your last good ping-pong ball fell into a narrow metal pipe embedded one foot deep in concrete.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, shoe laces, and plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?

Asked by Neha on 10 Nov 2024

Decode this picture on T-Shirt and tell what it says ?

Learn Decoding

Asked by Neha on 11 Mar 2021


81 x 9 = 801. What must you do to make the this equation true?

Asked by Neha on 03 Oct 2021

What is red and smells like blue paint?

Asked by Neha on 22 Jul 2025

A man says, "Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is that man?

Asked by Neha on 03 Jul 2023


Chocolate costs 6 rupees and a Toy costs 5 rupees. If you have 32 rupees in total, how many chocolates and how many Toys can be purchased with that amount?

Asked by Neha on 02 Mar 2025

Begin with a word, five letters to my name,
Remove the first and last but I am the same
Take out my middle and still, I remain.
What word am I?

Asked by Neha on 25 Jan 2025

I add 5 to 9 and get 2. The answer is correct, so what am I?

Asked by Neha on 04 Aug 2025


Which statement is true out of the following?
One statement here is false.
Two statements here are false.
Three statements here are false.

Asked by Neha on 21 Feb 2026

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Rubik’s Cube

The inventor of the Rubik’s Cube didn’t realize he’d built a puzzle until he scrambled it the first time and tried to restore it.