Save Yourself

A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you." What did the prisoner say to save himself?




Similar Riddles

A rubber ball keeps on bouncing back to 2/3 of the height from which it is dropped. Can you calculate the fraction of its original height that the ball will bounce after it is dropped and it has bounced four times without any hindrance ?

Asked by Neha on 16 Sep 2024


I look at you, you look at me I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 24 Apr 2023

John went to a parrot shop in Mexico, and the parrot owner told him that his parrot is so unique that he repeats everything he hears. John got excited and immediately bought the parrot. John went home and spoke many words, but the parrot does not repeat anything.
He went again to the parrot shop and complaint to the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper never lied. Explain?

Asked by Neha on 18 Oct 2024


A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

Asked by Neha on 17 May 2022

What can you catch but never throw?

Asked by Neha on 14 May 2021

What work can one never finish?

Asked by Neha on 12 Jan 2024


Can you find a number that lies one third of the distance between 1/3 and 2/3?

Asked by Neha on 29 Dec 2020

The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

Asked by Neha on 15 Jan 2025

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

Asked by Neha on 08 Mar 2025


After undergoing a successful eye operation, A blind girl has just boarded a train to her home. The doctor asked her to open the bandages after 3 hours. On her train journey, she opened the bandages and within a fraction of the time she commits suicide by jumping off the train.

Though her operation was successful, Why did she commit suicide?

Asked by Neha on 15 May 2021

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.