You have 8 balls numbered 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15. Select 3 balls and put them into the circles such that the sum of the numbers on them add up to 30.
Lateral Thinking Riddles
5 Islanders
Alex came across 5 islanders, all of whom knew one another and would only answer yes-or-no questions.
What is the minimum number of questions Alex needs to ask, to successfully determine how many of the islanders are paladins?
Riddle AnswerHalf Full Barrel Puzzle
Two workers in a brewery are trying to settle an argument over how much beer is inside a barrel. One worker thinks the barrel is more than half full while the other says it’s less than half full.
How can they settle the argument without using any measuring tools?
Note: the top of the barrel can be easily removed.
Riddle AnswerGeorge Manly Murder
It’s 6pm and George Manly was murdered. Yet no murderer was found.
But the cops got witnesses. There were 5 other people in the house at the time of George’s murder.
The chef said he was cooking dinner. The gardener said she was gardening. The auntie said she was playing chess with her brother. The wife said she was watching TV. And the grandfather said he was on his wheelchair.
So who murdered George Manly?
Riddle Answer16 Isolation Rooms
A hospital has 16 isolation rooms. Each room has a patient with a different illness.
Patient in room 13 recovers and wants to say goodbye to each patient. The problem is that if he visits a patient twice, he becomes ill again.
How does he visit each patient only once and exit from room 4?
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