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.
If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too many. How many cages and canaries do I have?
What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Look at the below sequence of letters and tell us what the next letter should be:
O T T F F S S ?
On a bright sunny day, two fathers took their son fishing in the lake. Each man and son were able to catch one fish. When they returned to their camp, there were only three fishes in the basket. What happened?
PS: None of the fish were eaten, lost, or thrown back.
Can you make four (4) nines (9) equal 100?
I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?
Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?
What do you call a fish without an eye?
Known by all without exception, Forever here, for your protection, Sometimes strong, sometimes weak, Right after the night I come - hot and chic. And while millions of miles away, I always get to you, I find my way. No life around could do without me, Can you guess what I might be?
At a Society election for president, precisely 963 votes were cast.
There is a total of 4 candidates that participate in the election.
The winning candidate exceeds the opponents by 53, 79 and 105 votes.
How many votes do each candidate gets?
The day before the 1996 U.S. presidential election, the NYT Crossword contained the clue “Lead story in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the puzzle was built so that both electoral outcomes were correct answers, requiring 7 other clues to have dual responses.
