You have four chains. Each chain has three links in it. Although it is difficult to cut the links, you wish to make a single loop with all 12 links. What is the fewest number of cuts you must make to accomplish this task?
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A wise king devised a contest to see who would receive the Princess’ hand in marriage. The Princess was put in a 50 x 50 foot carpeted room. Each of her four suitors were put in one corner of the room with a small box to stand on. The first one to touch the Princess’ [...] A man can make perfect counterfeit bills. They look exactly like real ones, they’re made of exactly the same materials, made the same way, everything. So perfect, one could pretty much call them real bills. One day he successfully makes a perfect copy of another bill. However, he gets caught when he tries to use [...] A princess is as old as the prince will be when the princess is twice the age that the prince was when the princess’s age was half the sum of their present ages. What are their ages?
You have two buckets – one holds exactly 5 gallons and the other 3 gallons. How can you measure 4 gallons of water into the 5 gallon bucket? (Assume you have an unlimited supply of water and that there are no measurement markings of any kind on the buckets.)
Tom’s mother has three children. One is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?
You are a cook in a remote area with no clocks or other way of keeping time other than a four minute sandglass timer and a seven minute sandglass timer. (The kind you turn over – hourglass shaped) You do have a stove, however, with water in a pot already boiling. Somebody asks you for [...]  November 24th, 2011 | Category: Brain Riddle, Food Riddles, Mathematical |  3 guesses |  Email This RiddleBeulah died in the Appalachians while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craig’s death. Why? Ida puts her coffee into the microwave, as she does every morning, for exactly 2 minutes. When the microwave goes off, she opens the door, but then closes the door again and sets the microwave for 2 more seconds. What good would 2 more seconds be?
November 22nd, 2011 | Category: Brain Riddle, Food Riddles, Real Life | 4 guesses | Email This RiddleYou have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across [...] |
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