In a concert, Christina is performing a dance show with her group.
At 10:00, she and her crew were dancing in an absolutely straight line. At that time Christina was standing in 4th position from both the front and back end of the row.
What was the size of her crew?
In a fruit store, there was a unique weighing machine that was made to weigh only cherries and strawberries as they were priced the same.
Other fruits like watermelons or mango had different machines as they were expensive.
A man successfully buys watermelons at the price of cherries. How?
How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
The following question it puts forth you:
25 - 55 + (85 + 65) = ?
Then, you are told that even though you might think it's wrong, the correct answer is actually 5!
Whats your reaction to it? How can this be true?
Replace the question mark with the correct number.
2 + 2= 4
3 + 3= 18
4 + 4= 48
5 + 5= ?
Birbal was jester, counsellor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.
The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness,
and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.
One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor.
"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."
Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal.
It was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it.
How could this be?
John is 45 years older than his son Jacob. If you find similarities between their ages, both of their ages contain prime numbers as the digits. Also, John's age is the reverse of Jacob's age.
Can you find their ages?
A man was going to bleach his socks because they had gotten muddy the day before. As he was pouring the bleach into the washing machine, he spilt some on the floor. He got some cleaning fluid and mopped it up with a rag. Minutes later he was dead. What killed him?
Baseball bat and ball cost $100. If the bat cost $99 more than the ball, what is the cost of each?
You have a roll of cloth 1km long. You have a machine which cuts this roll into pieces of 10-meter-long cloth.
How long would it take for the machine to cut the roll if each cut took 4 secs?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
