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.

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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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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