Logic Riddles

Logic riddles with answers involve looking at situations and making judgements about them by ruling out impossibilities. If you like solving maths puzzles, you will most probably like logic riddles as well.

3000 Bananas and Camel

You have 3000 bananas and a camel. You wish to transport the bananas to a place 1000 miles away, using only the camel as the mode of transportation.

The camel can only carry a maximum of 1000 bananas at a time, and will eat one banana every mile it travels. The camel will not go anywhere if it does not have any bananas.

You can load and unload as many bananas as you want anywhere. What is the maximum number of bananas that can be transferred to the destination using only the camel?

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Professor Problem

A 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?

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Weight of Elephant

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?

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