Interesting Riddle-Puzzle

26Jan/103

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 30^th 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.

Behead a journey by air to find illumination.
Behead a mark to produce a running competition.
Behead anger to find your years.
4. Behead a seat to get head covering.
Behead an apparition to find an entertainer of guests.
Behead a support to get a bat for tennis.
Behead the result of injury to make a vehicle.
Behead an old weapon to find a fruit.
Behead attractiveness to produce damage.
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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5Dec/091

Out in the Cold

Mammu and I, we were on a tour of West Germany. It was very cold winter evening. We stepped in the street to walk to a coffee shop. Mammu is only five and a half years old. We were dressed similarly. Who do you think felt colder?

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4Dec/093

A Combination Problem

Can you combine eight 8s with any other mathematical symbols except numbers so that they represent exactly one thousands?

You may use the plus, minus terms, and division signs as well as the factorial function and the Gamma function. You may also use the logarithms and the combinatorial symbol.

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13Nov/092

Age Puzzle

Disha and her friend, Sapna once met at a party. Soon a fight broke out between the two while discussing their ages.

Said Disha,"I definitely am not older than 30!!!"

On hearing that, Sapna snapped back, "You're old enough to be my aunt. I'm exactly 28 and you are not less than 5 years older than I am."

Disha immediately yelled back,"Liar! I'm sure you're at least 29!!"

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7Nov/095

Stolen Mangoes

Three naughty boys stole some mangoes from a garden. As it was late in the evening, they decided to divide the fruit equally among them in the morning, and went to sleep.

At night while the other two were sleeping, one boy woke up, tip-toed to the basket of mangoes, counted them and ate one. From the remainder he took a precise third and went back to sleep.

After some time a second boy woke up. He counted the mangoes, ate one, took an exact third of the remaining and went back to sleep.

A little before sun rise and third boy also woke up, ate one, and like the other two boys took a precise their of the remainder in whole mangoes.

In the morning, all the three boys went together to the basket of mangoes, counted them. Amongst them they found one which was over ripe – almost rotten. They threw it away. From the remainder they made an exact division.

How many mangoes in all did they steal?

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5Nov/093

Bookworm Puzzle

If a bookworm ate from the first page of Volume I to the last page of Volume III of an encyclopedia series standing in its right order on a bookshelf, how far would he have eaten, the books being 2 inches thick each, and the covers 1/4 –inch thick?

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5Nov/095

The Cycle Race Brain Teaser

Krishna and Bala decided to have a bicycle race. But the problem was that they had only one bicycle between them! Krishna had a solution. As the road to the airport had a stone demarcating every kilometer, he would ride from the first stone to the fifth, and Bala could ride the remaining distance from the fifth to the tenth stone. Then they could take their respective times with a stopwatch to see who was faster. The ‘race’, however, was a failure. Can you say why?

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