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.

Three Boxes

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:

  1. Box A contains the red chip
  2. Box B does not contain the red chip
  3. Box C does not contain the blue chip

Determine the color of the chip in each box.

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Egg Spinning Competition

You 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?

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