There are eight pills. They are all the same size and color. One pill weighs slightly more than the others and it is poisonous. You have a balanced scale and can only use it twice. How can you find the poisoned pill?
Riddle AnswerHard Riddles
Car License Plates
Detective Ixolite was investigating a murder. It was a difficult case, and Ixolite was completely stumped until he noticed a message sent to him by the killer cunningly hidden in a newspaper advertisement selling car licence plates.
Detective Ixolite thought about it for a while, and when he had solved the puzzle, immediately arrested the guilty man.
This is the newspaper advert (car licence plates for sale) that Inspector Ixolite saw.
Car License Plates For Sale: W 05 NWO H 13 HSR O 05 EBM D 08 UNE U 10 HTY N 04 BRE N 16 TTE I 26 LHC T 10 AEE I 26 CNA X 22 VDA
How did Ixolite know the advert was a clue for him? Solve the code and determine who Ixolite arrested.
Riddle AnswerGetting Home with the Money
Johnny is walking home. He has $300 to bring home to his mom. While he is walking, a man stops him and gives him a chance to double his money.
The man says, “I’ll give you $600 if you can roll 1 die and get a 4 or above, you can roll 2 dice and get a 5 or 6 on at least one of them, or you can roll 3 dice and get a 6 on at least one die. If you don’t I get your $300.”
What does Johnny do to have the best chance of getting home with the money?
Riddle AnswerSaving Time
Our man Ostap was going home from Kiev. He rode halfway by train – fifteen times as fast as he goes on foot. The second half he went by ox team. He can walk twice as fast as that. Would he have saved time if he had gone all the way on foot? If so, by how much?
Yes. He took as much time for the second half of his trip as the whole trip would have taken on foot.
So no matter how fast the train was, he lost exactly as much time as he spent on the train. He would have saved 1⁄30 of the time by walking all the way.