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A man on a park bench

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:16:52 +0000

Find below two family relationship puzzles. To answer these questions, one needs to understand the way words are used or rather twisted in the given questions.

A man on a park bench is looking at a small portrait. You ask him, Who is that in the picture?
The man says, Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father, is my father's son.
Can you tell what person is in the picture?

A beggar's brother died, but the man who died had no brother. How could this be?

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Eye Spy

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:15:22 +0000

Which is Wrong?

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A man was walking in the jungle

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:22:17 +0000

A man was walking in the jungle, he only had one bullet in his gun, but yet he shot a Puma and a Cougar. How did he do this?

If you overtake the last person,

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:08:01 +0000

If you overtake the last person, then you are...?

Once upon a time,

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:05:41 +0000

Once upon a time, and old lady went to sell her vast quantity of eggs at the local market.
When asked how many she had, she replied:
Son, I can't count past 100 but I know that.

If you divide the number of eggs by 2 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 3 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 4 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 5 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 6 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 7 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 8 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 9 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 10 there will be one egg left.
Finally. If you divide the Number of eggs by 11 there will be NO EGGS left!
How many eggs did the old lady have?

Vacation Time

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:43:07 +0000

It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long.

Now, there were 9 mornings when we did nothing, 13 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 12 days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?

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Grandpa’s Age

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:54:39 +0000

Grandpa:

"My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 120 years. Can you tell me my age in years?"

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Red mark was placed on the forehead

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:23:22 +0000

While a red mark was placed on the forehead of each of three blindfolded women seated facing each other in a circle, they were told that the the mark might be either red or white. Upon removal of the blindfolds, each was to raise her hand if she saw at least one red mark, and then to take it down if she could logically deduce the color of her own mark. All three hands were quickly raised, but then one of them lowered her hand. How did she know?

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Three men were standing in a row

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:21:05 +0000

Three men were standing in a row, all facing the same direction, so that there was one in back who could see the two in front of him, one in the middle, and one in front who could not see either of the other two. There were three blue and two red hats. One hat was placed on each man, without them seeing which two were left over. Each man was told the total number of each color of hat. First the man in the back was asked if he could deduce what color hat he had on, but he said he couldn't. Neither could the man in the middle, when he was next asked. But then man in the front, who could see neither of those behind him but could hear their answers, correctly deduced by logic what color hat he was wearing. What color was it and why?

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Two fathers and two sons went fishing

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:08:46 +0000

Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each caught exactly one fish and yet there were only three fishes caught. Why?

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