Some pibs are dais.
All dais are zons.
Some zons are rews.
Some rews are dais.
Therefore, some pibs are definitely rews.
Is the above conclusion true or false?
Riddle AnswerSome pibs are dais.
All dais are zons.
Some zons are rews.
Some rews are dais.
Therefore, some pibs are definitely rews.
Is the above conclusion true or false?
Riddle AnswerFour friends are going to a concert. When they arrive, there are only five seats together left in the theater. The manager will let all four friends in for free if one of them can tell her how many different seating arrangements are possible for four people with five empty seats.
All four are let in free. Could you have given the correct answer?
Riddle AnswerYou have a glass of water that looks about half full. How can you tell, only using the glass of water itself, if the glass is half full or not? The glass is a right cylinder.
Riddle AnswerAnderson, Biggs, and Carpenter were staying together at a place by the seaside. One day they went out in a boat and were a mile at sea when a rifle was fired on shore in their direction.
It seems that Anderson only heard the report of the gun, Biggs only saw the smoke, and Carpenter merely saw the bullet strike the water near them. Which of them first knew of the discharge of the rifle?
Riddle AnswerDuring certain local floods five married couples found themselves surrounded by water, and had to escape from their unpleasant position in a boat that would only hold three persons at a time.
Every husband was so jealous that he would not allow his wife to be in the boat or on either bank with another man (or with other men) unless he was himself present.
Show the quickest way of getting these five men and their wives across into safety. Call the men A, B, C, D, E, and their respective wives a, b, c, d,e. To go over and return counts as two crossings. No tricks such as ropes, swimming, currents, etc., are permitted.
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