A king asks a learned man to visit his palace, to which the learned man responds: “I will come some day next month, but I will not tell you on which day. Further, you must give me gold in grams equal to the date on which I come.”
In preparation for the visit, the king demands that his jeweler make gold rings of 1 to 31 grams.
The wise jeweler made only 5 rings. What are their weights?
Riddle AnswerA man and a woman were travelling on a car. A policeman stopped them at a signal and asked how are they related. The man answered, “Her father-in-law is my father-in-law’s father.”
How are they related?
Riddle AnswerTwo girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank them very fast and had finished five in the time it took the other to drink just one.
The girl who drank one died while the other survived. However, all of the drinks that were served turned out to contain poison.
How did the girl who drank the most survive?
Riddle AnswerA certain family party consisted of 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law and 1 daughter-in-law. A total of 23 people, you might think. But, no; there were only 7 people present. Can you show how this might be?
Riddle AnswerMeena’s father is Arun. Then Arun is the ________ of Meena’s father.
Fill in the blank.
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