On the table before you are three small boxes, labeled A, B , and C. Inside each box is a colored plastic chip. One chip is red, one is white, and one is blue. You do not know which chip is in which box. Then, you are told that of the next three statements, exactly one is true:
Determine the color of the chip in each box.
Riddle AnswerYou are in a bathroom with stone walls and no windows. You start to run a bath when the handles come off and there is no way of turning the tap off. You can’t escape because the door is locked and there are no windows. The room will flood and you will drown. How can you save yourself?
Riddle AnswerYou are a junior detective investigating a case. Boys at an apartment complain that every day, they have an egg spinning competition with only raw eggs, and every day one particular boy wins.
The boys want you to find out how. You are observing the boy spinning an egg when suddenly it drops to the floor. The apartment clerk casually hands him a broom to clean it up, as if it happens every day. You now know why the boy always wins the daily competition. How?
Riddle AnswerA person has one lion, one sheep and a bundle of grass. He wants to cross a river but there is only one boat and it can’t sustain the weight of more than two articles at time.
Also, he has to make sure that the lion doesn’t eat the sheep and the sheep doesn’t eat the grass. How will he get to the other side of the river with all three intact?
Riddle AnswerEmperor Akbar once ruled over India. He was a wise and intelligent ruler, and he had in his court the Nine Gems, his nine advisors, who were each known for a particular skill. One of these Gems was Birbal, known for his wit and wisdom. The story below is one of the examples of his wit. Do you have it in you to find out the answer?
A farmer and his neighbour once went to Emperor Akbar’s court with a complaint.
“Your Majesty, I bought a well from him,” said the farmer pointing to his neighbour, “and now he wants me to pay for the water.”
“That’s right, your Majesty,” said the neighbour. “I sold him the well but not the water!” The Emperor asked Birbal to settle the dispute.
How did Birbal solve the dispute?
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