Puzzles, brain teasers, and riddles involving creative, out-of-the-box, or lateral thinking
A man is stranded in the wilderness, in a remote northern area. There’s a lake nearby, and utility poles carrying electricity, presumably to a nearby town. However, there’s no way he can make it to the town in the freezing cold weather.
The man has a dinghy, two paddles, and an axe, but no devices that can communicate with anyone and no way to make a fire.
How does the man manage to get rescued as quickly as possible?
View SolutionA detective is called upon to solve the riddle of the mystery killer in a high-profile murder.
There are only three suspects:
The victim was holding a calendar, and it seems he marked several of dates before he passed away: the second of January, the sixth of February, the third of April, the fourth of October, and the first of November.
With this information, the detective identified the culprit. Who was it?
View SolutionDo some creative thinking and try to solve these 10 clever riddles:
What do you usually have to break before you can use it?
An egg
What do you need to answer even though it never asks a question?
The telephone
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?
A secret
Many people who have a secret want to share it. But if you share a secret, it is no longer secret, so you haven’t got it anymore.
I am a 5-letter word. I am normally below you.
If you remove my 1st letter, I am normally above you.
If you remove my 1st and 2nd letters, I am all around you.
View SolutionWhat can go through towns and cities, over hills and mountains, but never moves?
View SolutionA man wants to enter an exclusive club, but doesn’t know the password. He observes a few other patrons:
Thinking he has figured it out, the man walks up and the doorman says “10”. The man replies “5” but it’s incorrect and he is turned away.
What should the man have said instead?
Continue reading “Password to Exclusive Club”I am a food with 5 letters.
Take away my first letter, and I become a form of energy.
Take away my first two letters, and I become something you need to live.
Rearrange my last three letters, and I become something you drink.
Continue reading “Food with 5 Letters”Tread on the living, they utter not a mumble.
Tread on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
What are they?
View SolutionA blind man has to take exactly one green pill and one blue pill each day – no more and no less. However one day he accidentally takes out two pills from the green bottle and two pills from the blue bottle, and gets them all mixed up.
Is there any way the blind man can figure out how to take one green pill and one blue pill with what he has, or does he just have to throw away these pills and get new ones?
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