You are standing in a hallway next to 3 light switches that have been switched off. There is another room down the hallway with 3 light bulbs – all are incandescent light bulbs and each light bulb is operated by one of the switches in the hallway.
The door to the room is closed and you cannot see the light bulbs from the hallway.
How would you figure out which switch operates which light bulb, if you can enter the room with the light bulbs only once?
Riddle AnswerCaptain Ali is the captain of the ship. The captain of the ship is Captain Ali. What is the name of the ship.
Guess the name of the ship.
Riddle AnswerThere are twenty-six coins lying on a table in a totally dark room. Ten are heads and sixteen are tails. In the dark, you cannot feel or see if a coin is heads up or tails up.
Your task is to separate the coins into two groups so that each group has the same number of coins heads up as the other group. You may move or flip the coins. How can you accomplish this? No tricks are involved.
Riddle AnswerA cable of 80m (meters) is hanging from the top of two poles that are both 50m from the ground.
What is the distance between the two poles, to one decimal place, if the center of the cable is 10m above the ground?
Riddle AnswerA man and woman run through a field holding hands. They bound toward the sunset, happy as can be. Suddenly, the man moves off of his straight line course and starts veering to his left. At the same time, the woman begins running off to her right.
They continue this for a full minute, but never let go of each others hands.
How is this possible?
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