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

What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?

In the figure, you can see nine stars. What you have to do is connect all of them by using just four line and without lifting your hand i.e. in a continuous flow.

Can you solve the below algebraic mathematical equation?

(J+O+I+N+T)3 = JOINT

I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?

Jack and Joseph are well-known golf rivals. One Day during a match, they were level at a score of 30. Jack hit a bad shot and Joseph added 10 to his score. Joseph then hit an awesome shot and he won the game.

How ?

If 21x = 79x, what is the value of x?

This is the oldest riddle that I have heard.

Once there was a man who was travelling with a Tiger, goat and grass.
He needs to cross a river that can carry a maximum of two i.e. Man + one of Tiger goat or grass. But the problem is "If he takes the lion with him, the goat will eat grass and if he takes grass with him, the lion will eat the goat".

How can he ensure the safe delivery of all three?

Detective Rockford was jogging near the beach at 4:30 am.
He hears a sound near the shack "No Michael, Please Do not shoot me".
Next instance he heard the sound of gunfire. Rockford rushes to the shack where he finds women lying dead and a gun in close proximity of three "Doctore Lawyer and a Teacher".

Rockford immediately knew that the Lawyer has committed the crime. How?

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary, you'd think nothing was wrong with it. Actually, nothing IS wrong with it. But it is not as ordinary as you might think. If you think about it for a bit, you will find out why it is truly so unusual. So what is it? What is so unordinary about this paragraph?