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

What has 88 keys?

Asked by Neha on 09 Jul 2025


If you drop a 15 kg iron bar and a 5 kg bag of cotton from a height of 50 meters which will reach the ground first?

Asked by Neha on 08 Nov 2024

People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 08 Mar 2025


Kohli and Dhoni decided to have a paintball match.
Kohli told Dhoni, "Sir it is not right as you got thrice the paintballs I have".

Dhoni instantly gives Kohli 10 hit paintballs.
Kohli replied, "Sir, I believe you still have twice the paintballs than I have".

Dhoni gives "?" more paintballs to Kohli.
Kohli replied, "Sir it is even now, Let us have a match".

What is "?".

Asked by Neha on 02 Mar 2026

A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

Asked by Neha on 15 Sep 2021

How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?

Asked by Neha on 27 Jan 2021


What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Asked by Neha on 06 Jan 2021

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

Asked by Neha on 19 Sep 2021

Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?

Asked by Neha on 11 Oct 2021


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

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.