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.
Why is it very easy to weigh a fish?
If one and a half boys, eat one and a half burgers in one and a half hours.
How many burgers can 9 boys eat in 3 hours?
In case you were starting to feel confident, this one was meant for third graders in Vietnam. The answer is 66, but we don't blame you for scratching your head about how they got there.
Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
What is both possible and impossible at the same time?
Distances from you to certain cities are written below.
BERLIN 200 miles
PARIS 300 miles
ROME 400 milesAMSTERDAM 300 miles
CARDIFF ??? miles
How far should it be to Cardiff ?
Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
What is a word made up of 4 letters, yet is also made up of 3. Sometimes is written with 9 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, and never is written with 5.
Can you find out which number multiplied by itself will give the output as 12345678987654321?
I got a bee but no honey.
got an eye but am still blind.
got a sea but no water.
got a tea but no coffee.
got a why but no answer.
What Am I?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.