In Greek mythology, the Sphinx sat outside of Thebes and asked this riddle of all travellers who passed by. If the traveller failed to solve the riddle, then the Sphinx killed him/her. And if the traveller answered the riddle correctly, then the Sphinx would destroy herself. The riddle:
What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?
Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx destroyed herself.
Solve this riddle by finding the odd one out from the rest.
Is the statement valid that it does not matter how much older a sibling is, eventually the younger one will be half as old as the older one?
What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?
Intelligence Agency need to break the vault but the problem is that they are not able to break the vault.
On the vault, a text is written as:
31 11 33 33 43 45
21 25
31 24 11 31 51 41
To Break the code Intelligence Agency brings a mathematician named Joseph.
Minutes later he deciphers the code.
Whats the code?
A high school has a strange principal. On the first day, he has his students perform an odd opening day ceremony:
There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?
The horse jumps over the king.
Strangely there is absolutely no scratch on him.
Can anyone explain, how is this possible?
There are three boxes. One is labeled "APPLES" another is labeled "ORANGES". The last one is labeled "APPLES AND ORANGES". You know that each is labeled incorrectly. You may ask me to pick one fruit from one box which you choose.
How can you label the boxes correctly?
I have Rs.50 and I spend it in the way as below.
During which month do people sleep the least?
In a jungle where there are no street lights or any other artificial source of lights, I notice a black snake crossing the road.
How did I get sight of the snake?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.