You have four chains of three links each. 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?
Riddle AnswerHard Riddles
10 Coins Puzzle
You are blindfolded and 10 coins are place in front of you on table. You are allowed to touch the coins, but can’t tell which way up they are by feel. You are told that there are 5 coins with heads up, and 5 coins with tails up but not which ones are which.
How do you make two piles of coins each with the same number of heads up? You can flip the coins any number of times.
Riddle AnswerSafe Conduct
Bumbletown had the most robbed bank in the land. The unfortunate clerk was frequently forced to open the safe, and the bank had lost so much money, that Mr Good, the bank manager, was going bald.
Then one day, Mr Good had an idea. His nephew, Fumble, should be the bank clerk. Now Fumble was the ideal man for the job. His memory was so bad, one could be sure that no robber could ever force him to remember the safe combination. Furthermore, his poor powers of recall were matched by a superb talent for puzzling things out. This meant that whenever Fumble needed to know the safe combination, all he had to do was obtain the following conundrum from Mr Good, which he could solve to reveal the five-digit safe combination.
‘The fourth digit is four greater than the second digit. There are three pairs of digits that each sum to 11. The third of the five digits is three less than the second. The first digit is three times the fifth digit.’
Of the 100,000 possible numbers, which was the correct safe combination?
Riddle AnswerFather’s Son
Who is your father’s only son’s brother’s uncle’s wife’s daughter’s brother’s father’s son?
Riddle AnswerHorse Travel
A horse travels a certain distance each day. Strangely enough, two of its legs travel 30 miles each day and the other two legs travel nearly 31 miles. It would seem that two of the horse’s legs must be one mile ahead of the other two legs, but of course this can’t be true.
Since the horse is normal, how is this situation possible?
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