Brainy Riddles

2022-03-04 02:48:14 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said. "You can use the match and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did the waiter get the water into the glass?

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☞ First, the waiter stuck the match into the lemon wedge, so that it would stand straight. Then he lit the match, and put it in the middle of the plate with the lemon. Then, he placed the glass upside-down over the match. As the flame used up the oxygen in the glass, it created a small vacuum, which sucked in the water through the space between the glass and the plate. Thus, the waiter got the water into the glass without touching or moving the plate.
You can try this experiment at home with appropriate supervision.

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2022-02-25 05:37:20 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they've forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues.

Darryl: What's the day?I don't think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

Tracy: Well that doesn't narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday.

Melissa: Yesterday wasnt Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday.

Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday.

Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday

Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday.

David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday.

If only one of above statement is right, what day of week was it?

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☞ Wednesday.

It is Wednesday. If it was any other day of the week, more than one statement would
be true. To solve the riddle, evaluate each person's statement and write down what
day it could be according to the statement.

David's statement indicates it could be any day of the week except for Wednesday.
When you list the days that it could be according to everyone's statement, it turns
out Wednesday is the day mentioned only one time.

Darryl: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday

Tracy: Monday

mellissa : Saturday

Ben: Thursday

Adrienne: Saturday

Susie: Friday

David: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

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2022-02-22 11:35:51 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ Seven Robbers loot the bank and hide the coins at a deserted factory.
They decide to divide the money equally next morning. Two greedy robbers decided to cheat the others and reach the factory at night. They equally divided the coins between them, one coin left. So they called another robber and then they decided to divide equally among three. Sadly again one coin left. Same thing happened for 4th 5th and the 6th robber.
However when 7th robber reached in the morning, they are able to divide the coins equally.

How many coins were there in total?

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☞ 301 Coins

The remainder of 301/2 , 301/3 , 301/4 , 301/5 & 301/6 is one but 301 is perfectly divided by 7.

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2022-02-19 03:30:37 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ Edward asked Bella, "The time right now is 7 pm. Can you tell me what will be the time 23, 999, 995 hours later ?"

While Bella does not know the answer, do you?

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☞The time after 24, 000, 000 hours later will be the same i.e. 7 pm. Five hours before that, the time will be 5 hours before 7 pm i.e. 2 pm.

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2022-02-17 03:30:27 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ A man is walking down a road with a basket of eggs. As he is walking he meets someone who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. He walks a little further and meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one-half of an egg. After proceeding further he meets another person who buys one-half of his eggs plus one half an egg. At this point he has sold all of his eggs, and he never broke an egg. How many eggs did the man have to start with?

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☞ 7 eggs

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2022-02-15 03:31:03 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞  A blind man is alone on a deserted island. He has two blue pills and two red pills. He must take exactly one red pill and one blue pill or he will die.

How does he do it?

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☞Firstly, break each of the pills in half, and as you do this pop one half in your mouth and lay the other half aside for tomorrow. When he’s done this with all four pills he will have consumed one red pill and one blue pill. And have the same leftover.

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2022-02-13 03:30:52 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence. Quick!
What is it?

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☞ It contains all of the letters in the alphabet.

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2022-02-11 03:30:55 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ There was a drunk man driving his car after his headlighta wer smashed having a fight outside a pub, the street lamps have been broken for weeks and wer still not replaced, suddenly a dog starting crossing the road yet the man was able to stop just in time and not hit the dog. how ?

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☞ Its daytime.

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2022-02-09 03:30:24 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ There is one word in the English language which is universally considered a preventive of harm; change a certain letter in it, and you make it an act of cruelty. What are the words?

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☞ Prescription—proscription.

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2022-02-07 03:31:03 -------------✯✯✯-----------------

☞ “Three gods, A, B, and C, are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is completely random. You must determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-or-no questions, and each question must be posed to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language. In their unknown language, the words for “yes” and “no” are “da” and “ja,” in some order. You do not know which word means which.”

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☞ Here are the three questions you should ask, according to Nautilus:

1. To god A: “Does ‘da’ mean ‘yes’ if and only if you are True and if and only if B is Random?” (We supposed A said, “ja,” making B True or False).
2. To god B: “Does “da” mean ‘yes’ if and only if Pluto is a dwarf planet?” (We supposed B said, “da,” making B True.)
3. And to god B (True) again: “Does ‘da’ mean ‘yes’ if and only if A is Random?” Since B’s True, he must say “da,” which means A is Random, leaving C to be False.

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