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24Mar/107

Most Difficult Riddle: Einstein Riddle

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?

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3Mar/104

Fruit Seller’s Paradox

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.

Paradox

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21Feb/102

Windy Flight Paradox

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.

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20Feb/104

Puzzling Puzzle

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?"

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20Feb/103

Bearish Brain Teaser

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?

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2Feb/107

Weight Puzzles

Sample Puzzles

Find below couple of weights and balance scale related puzzle questions. We are also mentioning the difficult level as per our perception. Our opinion may differ from yours.

Weight Puzzle Number 1

Here is a puzzle question of average (2/5; 5/5 is most difficult) difficulty level -

Among 12 identical looking golf balls there is one that is defective in weight. It is either heavier or lighter than the standard one. You have a balance Scale. You can only weigh 3 times to find

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26Jan/102

Help me find her address!!

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

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26Jan/101

Interesting Riddle-Puzzle

The Lily Pond Riddle

In India water lilies grow extremely rapidly. In one pond a lily grew so fast that each day it covered a surface double that which it covered the day before. At the end of the 30th day it entirely covered the pond, in which it grew. But how long would it take to water lilies of the same size at the outset

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29Dec/092

Headless Words Puzzle – Funny Puzzles

Can you find these words from the clues?

If the clue were ‘Behead a mass killing to find amusement’, the answer would be LAUGHTER, since by beheading SLAUGHTER you are left with LAUGHTER.

  1. Behead a journey by air to find illumination.
  2. Behead a mark to produce a running competition.
  3. Behead anger to find your years.
  4. 4. Behead a seat to get head covering.
  5. Behead an apparition to find an entertainer of guests.
  6. Behead a support to get a bat for tennis.
  7. Behead the result of injury to make a vehicle.
  8. Behead an old weapon to find a fruit.
  9. Behead attractiveness to produce damage.
  10. Behead a section to get lousy insects.

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7Dec/094

A Boat Race

The Yacht club recently held a boat race. The captain had some difficulty deciding the order of rowing in the boat for his crew.

3 of his crew were strokeside oarsmen only and 2 of them were bow side oarsmen only. Weights and personal preferences were not important really.

In how many ways the captain could have arranged his eight men to form the crew?

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