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.

Broken Glasses

My friend Asha was throwing a very grand party and wanted to borrow from me 100 wine glasses. I decided to send them through my boy servant Harish.

Just to give an incentive to Harish to deliver the glasses intact I offered him $3 for every glass delivered safely and threatened to forfeit $9 for every glass he broke.

On settlement, Harish received $240 from me. How many glasses did Harish break?

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Sum of Hats Puzzle

There are 3 people Abel, Bill and Clark. Three of them have numbers (positive integers) written on their hats. They can see the numbers on the other two hats but not their own. The number on one hat is the sum of the numbers on the other two hats. They are given this information and asked in turn if they can identify their number.

In the first round Abel, Bill and Clark each in turn say they don’t know. In the second round Abel is first to go and states his number is 50. What numbers are on Bill and Clark?

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