A woman lives in a Tall building thirty-six floors high and served by several elevators which stop at each floor going up and down. Each morning she leaves her apartment and goes to one of the elevators. Whichever one she takes is three times more likely to be going up than down. Why?
A hen, a dog, and a cat are stolen. Three suspects are arrested named Robin, Steve, and Tim. The police are sure that all of them stole one of the animals but they don't know who stole which animal.
Sherlock Holmes is appointed to identify and is provided with the following statements from the investigation.
Robin - Tim stole the hen
Steve - Tim stole the dog
Tim - Both Robin and Steve are lying. I neither stole a hen nor a dog.
Sherlock is somehow able to deduce that the man who stole the cat is telling a lie and the man who stole the hen is telling truth.
Tarang football website was hacked by one of the players. Jack, the coach of Tarang has pointed out five players as the possible hacker.
Each suspected player made three statements from each suspected player and out of which two are true and one is false.
Joseph
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I know nothing about hacking.
C) John did it.
Hazard
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) The website was attacked by one of the players.
C) I hate Shelly
Remy
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I have never seen Oscar in my entire life.
C) I am sure John did it.
John
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I am sure Oscar did it.
C) Joseph was lying when he said he did it.
Oscar
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I am sure Hazard did it.
C) I used to be friend with Remy.
In an Art Gallary, When the clock hit 11 am, Artist hung the painting number 30. When it struck 4 pm, he hung painting number 240 and when it struck 7:30 pm, he hung painting number 315.
Can you determine, which painting number will he hang when the time is 9:20 pm?
The day before the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses.