Measure The Strings

You have two strings whose only known property is that when you light one end of either string it takes exactly one hour to burn. The rate at which the strings will burn is completely random and each string is different.

How do you measure 45 minutes?




Similar Riddles

Different lights make me strange by changing me into different sizes. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 09 Sep 2025


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

How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

Asked by Neha on 05 Oct 2021


How many times in a given day, minutes and hour clock comes in a straight line ?

Asked by Neha on 03 Mar 2023

How high do you have to count before you use the letter “a” in the English spelling of the whole number?

Asked by Neha on 11 Sep 2025

You are in a room with no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet.
How can you identify which one is a magnet?

Asked by Neha on 28 Feb 2024


Keyboard words are not in alphabetical order, Why?

Asked by Neha on 26 Jul 2023

One night, a woman receives a call from the police. They tell her that her husband was murdered and that she should come to the crime scene as soon as possible. The woman drops the phone, shocked, and drives 20 minutes to the crime scene. As soon as she reaches the crime scene, the police arrest her and she is convicted of murder. How do the police know she committed the crime?

Asked by Neha on 01 Jul 2025

A landlord calls both of his sons and tells them that their horses will now decide who will transfer the inheritance. He tells them to race along the land till the end and the one whose horse will be slower will win and be the heir to all the property.

Both of them keep wandering for days but to no result. Then they ask a wise man regarding it. The man advises them on the matter after which they jump on the horses and race as fast as they can till the end. Why did they do it?

What did the wise man say?

Asked by Neha on 05 Nov 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

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in the puzzle game “2048,” achieving a high score of 839,732 and beating the game in only 973 moves without using any undo.