As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. How is this possible?
Riddle AnswerTricky Riddles
Getting Home with the Money
Johnny is walking home. He has $300 to bring home to his mom. While he is walking, a man stops him and gives him a chance to double his money.
The man says, “I’ll give you $600 if you can roll 1 die and get a 4 or above, you can roll 2 dice and get a 5 or 6 on at least one of them, or you can roll 3 dice and get a 6 on at least one die. If you don’t I get your $300.”
What does Johnny do to have the best chance of getting home with the money?
Riddle AnswerDoor Bell
You are sleeping. At 7 in the morning you hear the door bell. Your friends came over to have breakfast. You have strawberry, honey, nutella and cheese. What do you open first?
Riddle AnswerSaving Time
Our man Ostap was going home from Kiev. He rode halfway by train – fifteen times as fast as he goes on foot. The second half he went by ox team. He can walk twice as fast as that. Would he have saved time if he had gone all the way on foot? If so, by how much?
Answer
Yes. He took as much time for the second half of his trip as the whole trip would have taken on foot.
So no matter how fast the train was, he lost exactly as much time as he spent on the train. He would have saved 1⁄30 of the time by walking all the way.