A king is on a cross-sea voyage and as soon as he gets off of the ship he spots an elephant. He decides to take it home, but first, he wants to know its weight.
The largest scale they brought only weighs up to 50 pounds. He asks his smartest scholar to come up with a solution. How does the scholar find the weight of the elephant?
Riddle AnswerA murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Riddle AnswerA professor thinks of two consecutive numbers between 1 and 10.
‘A’ knows the 1st number and ‘B’ knows the second number.
They both have a conversation:
A: I do not know your number.
B: Neither do I know your number.
A: Now I know.
There are four possible solutions to this. What are the numbers?
Riddle AnswerI drive at an average speed of 30 miles per hour to the railroad station each morning and just manage to catch my train on time.
On a particular morning there was a lot of traffic and at the halfway point I found I had averaged only 15 miles per hour.
How fast must I drive for the rest of the way to catch my train?
Riddle AnswerFour prisoners named P1, P2, P3 and P4 are arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and the jailer has nowhere to put them. He eventually comes up with the solution of giving them a puzzle and if they answer correctly they can go free but if they fail they are to be executed.
The jailer makes prisoners P1, P2 and P3 stand in a single file. Prisoner P4 is put behind a screen. The arrangement looks like this:
P1 P2 P3 || P4
The ‘||’ is the screen.
The jailer tells them that there are two black hats and two white hats; that each prisoner is wearing one of the hats; and that each of the prisoners is only able to see the hats in front of them but not on themselves or behind. Prisoner P1 can see P2 and P3. Prisoner P2 can see P3 only. The fourth man, P4, behind the screen can’t see or be seen by any other prisoner. No communication between the prisoners is allowed.
If any prisoner can figure out and tell the jailer the color of the hat he has on his head all four prisoners go free. If any prisoner gives an incorrect answer, all four prisoners are executed. How the prisoners can escape, regardless of how the jailer distributes the hats?
You can assume that the prisoners can all hear each other if one of them tries to answer the question. Also, every prisoner thinks logically and knows that the other prisoners think logically as well.
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