Riddles

Test your intelligence with 1400 riddles and answers, including easy, short and funny riddles for kids and some of the really best and hard riddles for adults. Not forgetting math and logic riddles for the left-brained people.

Half Full Recycling Bin

There is a bottle recycling bin, with one lonely bottle inside. Every hour, on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip. The first hour, at noon, one person came and put a bottle in. One hour later, two people placed a bottle each into the skip. An hour later four people placed a bottle each into the skip.

This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the bin was finally full. When was the bin exactly half full?

Riddle Answer

Statements from Six Suspects

After a local art theft, six suspects were being interviewed. Below is a summary of their statements.

Police know that exactly four of them told one lie each and all of the other statements are true. From this information can you tell who committed the crime?

Alan said:

It wasn’t Brian
It wasn’t Dave
It wasn’t Eddie

Brian said:

It wasn’t Alan
It wasn’t Charlie
It wasn’t Eddie

Charlie said:

It wasn’t Brian
It wasn’t Freddie
It wasn’t Eddie

Dave said:

It wasn’t Alan
It wasn’t Freddie
It wasn’t Charlie

Eddie said:

It wasn’t Charlie
It wasn’t Dave
It wasn’t Freddie

Freddie said:

It wasn’t Charlie
It wasn’t Dave
It wasn’t Alan

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