This is a simple yet interesting puzzle for you. It might appear to be a little tricky at the beginning but some amount of out-of-the-box thinking can help you to answer it in a jiffy. So here you go -
How to get the heritage?
An Arab sheikh tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advise. After hearing the advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the city. What does the wise man say?
Post a comment below with your answer.
Funny Interesting Riddles for you : In this post we have tried to give you few witty, funny but interesting riddles. Try to use your brain but friends don't take them to seriously.
Interesting Riddles
- How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
- What two things can never be eaten for breakfast?
- Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
- The person who makes it doesn't want it. The person who buys it doesn't use it. The person who uses it doesn't see
Friends based on the emails I am getting I think most of you like creative and interesting logical puzzles. So I am presenting another very interesting grid puzzle one for you.
Grid Puzzle
Below is a very special grid, around each shaded number are 8 white squares. However, each white square should have a number from 1 to 7. Once filled in, these 8 numbers will sum to the shaded number. In addition, once completed correctly, no row nor column will contain a duplicate number within a white square. For example, the top row may be 5 6 4 2 3 1 7, etc. hence no digit repeated (similar to Sudoko)
Try to fill all the blank spaces. Leave your answers below by writing the numbers row-wise.
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Answer (posted on September 17, 2010)
After quite a few days I am posting a riddle. I assure you it's very interesting. Though it may seem a little difficult when you first read it, maintain your cool and ponder over it again.
Suppose you have ten threads and a lighter. If a thread is lighted, it will burn for exactly one hour. The threads do not burn at constant speed, in other words it can happen that the first half of the thread is burned in 15 minutes, while the remaining part will take three quarters. How can you measure exactly 45 minutes using these threads, and what is the minimum of threads you need for this?
If you need any clarification, leave your queries as comment.
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Most Difficult Riddle: One of my friend have forwarded me this mentioning the background. It claims that this mathematical puzzle was created by Einstein. Though we don't vouch for this claim but in any case it is very interesting to solve this. So guys go ahead and solve. We are ready to give the solutions too, if you all fail to solve it. But hope that's not the case. All the best!
Albert Einstein created this riddle in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. It is a good brain exercise. Here it is:
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?
Fruit Seller's Paradox- Each of two apple women had 30 apples for sale. The first sold hers at the rate of 2 for a nickel, the second at the rate of 3 for a nickel. At the end of the day their respective receipts were 75 cents and 50 cents, or $1.25 in all.
A plane makes a trip from New York to Washington and back to New York. Call the distance between the two cities 200 miles and the speed of the plane 100 miles per hour. Then the time required for the round trip, ignoring stops, is 4 hours. Now suppose there is a strong wind which blows throughout the entire trip with the same speed and in the same direction-from New York directly toward Washington, say.
Who should be the Boss?
A large business firm was once planning to open a new branch in a certain city, and advertised positions for three clerks. Out of a number of applicants the personnel manager selected three promising young men and addressed them in the following way : "Your salaries are to begin at the rate of $1000 per year, to be paid every half-year. If your work is satisfactory, and we keep you, your salaries will be raised.
Which would you prefer, a raise of $150 per year or a raise of $50 every half-year?"
Weird Brain Teaser...isn't it?
A certain sportsman, experienced in shooting small game, was out on his first bear hunt. Suddenly he spotted a huge bear about a hundred yards due east of him. Seized with panic, the hunter ran out directly away from the bear, but, in his confusion, due north. Having covered about a hundred yards, he regained his presence of mind, stopped, turned, and killed the bearwho had not moved from his original position-by shooting due south. Have you all the data clearly in mind?
Teasing Brain Teaser!!
I met Sweety first time in a marriage party in Kolkata. We exchanged our phone numbers and decided to meet each other soon. When she rang up and invited me to her house, she decided to tease me.
This is how she gave me the number of her house on a particular street:
“I live in a long street. Numbered one the one side of my house are the houses one, two, three and so on. All the numbers on one side of my house add up to exactly the same as all the numbers on the other side of my house. I know
watchman was paid for awaking not for sleeping so that he can see dreams.. – 05Feb12
as a night watchman he shouldnt have slept at night to get that dream... – 04Feb12
Can u plz give me clarity in ur solution Kaush sir..... – 04Feb12
thanks for these tricks. Are these from the book "quicker maths by m.tyra" ? – 03Feb12