I am a seven-letter word but if you remove four of my letters I will have one left. What word am I?
I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.
why?
A man embarked on a questionnaire game. He kept asking the same question to whomever he found. The answer each time was different.
Can you guess what the question was?
What has no start, end, or centre?
I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
It's a test that will check your IQ.
Suppose you have one 11 minute hourglass and one 13 minute hourglass.
Can you measure exactly fifteen minutes using them ?
If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?
The warden meets with 23 new prisoners when they arrive. He tells them, "You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells and will have no communication with one another.
"In the prison is a switch room, which contains two light switches labeled 1 and 2, each of which can be in either up or the down position. I am not telling you their present positions. The switches are not connected to anything.
"After today, from time to time whenever I feel so inclined, I will select one prisoner at random and escort him to the switch room. This prisoner will select one of the two switches and reverse its position. He must flip one switch when he visits the switch room, and may only flip one of the switches. Then he'll be led back to his cell.
"No one else will be allowed to alter the switches until I lead the next prisoner into the switch room. I'm going to choose prisoners at random. I may choose the same guy three times in a row, or I may jump around and come back. I will not touch the switches, if I wanted you dead you would already be dead.
"Given enough time, everyone will eventually visit the switch room the same number of times as everyone else. At any time, anyone may declare to me, 'We have all visited the switch room.'
"If it is true, then you will all be set free. If it is false, and somebody has not yet visited the switch room, you will all die horribly. You will be carefully monitored, and any attempt to break any of these rules will result in instant death to all of you"
What is the strategy they come up with so that they can be free?
A man has a barrel filled with oil that weighs 100 pounds, and then he puts something into it. Now the barrel weighs less than 100 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.
Who am I?
At my favorite fruit stand,
an orange costs 18,
a pineapple costs 27,
and a grape costs 15.
Using the same logic, can you tell how much a mango costs?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.