Measure Time with Candle

There are two candles. Both will only burn exactly for an hour. How will you use these two candles to measure forty-five minutes?




Similar Riddles

Which point will the car reach to go out?

Car Ring Ride

Asked by Neha on 05 Nov 2024


Identify the 10 differences between the two given pictures.

Pictures to Identify

Asked by Neha on 22 Dec 2023

What does this simple rebus mean?

What does this mean

Asked by Neha on 18 Jun 2023


Replace the question mark with the correct number, given the pair of numbers exhibits a similar relationship?

? : 3839 :: 11 : 1209

Asked by Neha on 03 Jun 2023

Can you find out which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321?

Asked by Neha on 27 Mar 2023

My location can be determined by the below rebus.
So where am i ?

Find my Location

Asked by Neha on 15 Aug 2021


I guess 76.8% of readers will like this riddle.

What's the least number of people should read this post?

Asked by Neha on 28 May 2026

Can you count the number of triangles inside a triangle?

Triangles in a Triangle Riddle

Asked by Neha on 26 Mar 2026

A person is found murdered in his Chamber. When the crime scene is investigated, the Investigator find out that there is a calendar on which the victim has written a few numbers with his blood. The numbers are 4, 11, 11 and 4.

There are four suspects in the murder, John, Jacob, Anna and Lee. Can you find out who is the murderer?

Asked by Neha on 29 Jan 2026


A large water tank has two inlet pipes (a large one and a small one) and one outlet pipe. It takes 3 hours to fill the tank with the large inlet pipe. On the other hand, it takes 6 hours to fill the tank with the small inlet pipe. The outlet pipe allows the full tank to be emptied in 9 hours.

What fraction of the tank (initially empty) will be filled in 0.64 hours if all three pipes are in operation? Give your answer to two decimal places (e.g., 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75).

Asked by Neha on 08 Jan 2026

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Challenging

There is a cryptic organization called Cicada 3301 that posts challenging puzzles online, possibly to recruit codebreakers and linguists.