Time Measurement

Your job is to measure 45 minutes if you have only two cords and matches to light the cords.

1. The two cords are twisted from various materials, so their different segments can burn at different rates.
2. Each cord burns from end to end in exactly one hour.

Describe your way of measuring the 45 minutes.




Similar Riddles

Two trains start at the same time, one from Bangalore to Mysore and the other from Mysore to Bangalore. if they arrive at their destinations one hour and four hours respectively after passing one another, how much faster is one train running than the other?

Asked by Neha on 19 Apr 2022


If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

Asked by Neha on 17 May 2021

10+10 and 11+11 can give you the same answer.

Explain how?

Asked by Neha on 07 Aug 2021


How can one talk without saying a single word?

Asked by Neha on 25 Nov 2023

Replace the letters of words with a number so that the below equation holds true

BASE +
BALL
---------
GAMES
----------

Asked by Neha on 10 Oct 2023

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

Asked by Neha on 22 Aug 2025


What has one eye, but can’t see?

Asked by Neha on 16 Jul 2025

You are provided with a grid (as shown in the picture). Can you fill the squares with numbers 1-8 in a manner that none of the two consecutive numbers are placed next to each other in any direction (vertically, horizontally or diagonally?)

Fill The Grid

Asked by Neha on 22 Sep 2025

Can you find out which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321?

Asked by Neha on 27 Mar 2023


My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 10 Sep 2025

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Challenging

There is a cryptic organization called Cicada 3301 that posts challenging puzzles online, possibly to recruit codebreakers and linguists.