All roses are flowers. Some flowers fade quickly. Therefore some roses fade quickly. True of False?
Riddle AnswerHard Riddles
100 Widgets
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
Riddle AnswerThe Bathtub Test
During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the director what the criteria is that defines if a patient should be admitted.
“Well,” said the director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub. Okay, here’s your test: Would you use the spoon, the teacup or the bucket?”
“Oh, I understand,” said the visitor. “A normal person would choose the bucket, as it is larger than the spoon.”
What was the director’s response?
Riddle AnswerExpensive Ring
Tom wants to send Sally an expensive ring through the mail because they live thousands of miles apart. The only problem is that everything sent through the mail is stolen unless there is a lock put on it. Tom has a box that is large enough to contain the ring and the box can be fitted with multiple locks. Both Tom and Sally have plenty of locks and keys but they don’t have any of the same locks or keys.
How can Tom send Sally the ring without it getting stolen?
Riddle AnswerThe Reclusive Inventor
There was once a reclusive inventor who became so annoyed with unwanted visitors ringing his doorbell that he decided to discourage them by inventing a new one.
The device consisted of a row of six push buttons mounted on the front door, wired in such a way that only one of the buttons would ring the bell. If an incorrect button was pressed (even simultaneously with the correct one) the bell would be temporarily deactivated.
Only his close friends were told the identity of the correct button. Everyone else had to deduce it from an inscription on the front door which read ‘Exactly one button is somewhere to the left of the one, that is three to the right of the one, that is somewhere to the right of the one, that is next to the one, that is two away from the one that is first mentioned. Ring the only button of the six that is not mentioned above.’
What was the position of the correct button?
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