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

If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 07 Mar 2025


What has 13 hearts but no other organs?

Asked by Neha on 11 Mar 2022

He does not have any heart but still, He manages to live.
If you kill him, you will eventually die but yet you kill him.
He cannot run, who is He?

Asked by Neha on 21 Dec 2025


If you read clockwise, you can form a word by inserting three missing letters in the picture given below. Can you do it?

English Clockwise

Asked by Neha on 10 Sep 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

A King wants to send the diamond ring to his girlfriend securely. He got multiple locks and their corresponding keys. His girlfriend does not have any keys to these locks and if he sends the key without a lock, the key can be copied in the way. How can King send the ring to his girlfriend securely?

Asked by Neha on 03 Oct 2025


A cat had three kittens: Snophy, Topsy and Jorden. What was the mother's name?

Asked by Neha on 27 Jun 2024

How old is your son? asked a man to his neighbour. My son is five times as old as my daughter and my wife is five times as old as my son. I am twice as old as my wife whereas my grandmother, who is celebrating her eighty-first birthday is as old as all of us put together.

How old is the man's son ?

Asked by Neha on 17 May 2021

I have a five and a three-gallon jar. Assuming there is an infinite supply of water, how can I measure one-gallon water?

Easy Gallon Riddle

Asked by Neha on 21 May 2021


I make two people out of one. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 29 Mar 2022

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Gambling

In Canada, a mathematical puzzle must be solved in order to win the lottery to classify it as a “game of skill” not gambling.