A man has 53 socks in his drawer: 21 identical blue, 15 identical black and 17 identical red. The lights are fused and he is completely in the dark. How many socks must he take out to be 100 percent certain he has a pair of black socks?
A man goes to a hardware shop and asks for the price of an item. The shop keeper replies that the item is “one for $1″. The man gives the shop keeper “$3 for 600″. What did the man buy for his newly painted house?
In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers. If each bee lands on a flower, one bee doesn’t get a flower. If two bees share each flower there is one flower left out. How many flowers and bees are there?
There are nine children in the house and they are the only ones in the house. A is ironing B is watching tv C is cooking D is playing chess E is bathing F is listening radio G is sleeping I is dressing What is H doing?
A poor woman takes an expensive piece of jewellery. When she is caught, the owner of the jewellery tells her, “You can have this for seven figures or you will go to jail.” The woman soon leaves with the jewellery. How did she do this?
Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.
A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Twelve flags stand equidistant along the track at the stadium. The runners start at the first flag. A runner reaches the eighth flag 8 seconds after he starts. If he runs at an even speed, how many seconds does he need altogether to reach the twelfth flag?
A zookeeper has to put 27 snakes in four cages. His problem is that he must have an odd number of snakes in each cage. How can he accomplish this? You can put any number of snakes in a cage as long as the total number of snakes in each cage is an odd number.
Think of words ending in GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Christmas and New Year’s Day occur exactly one week apart. So a New Year’s that occurs right after Christmas should be on the same day of the week. But in the year 2020 Christmas will occur on a Friday and New Year’s on a Wednesday. Why is this?
A fisherman’s day is rated as good if he catches 9 fishes, fair if 7 fishes and bad if 5 fishes. He catches 53 fishes in a week and had all good, fair and bad ratings in the week. So how many good, fair and bad ratings days did the fisherman had in the week?
The Pharoah asked: “Who is the greatest of the gods?” ‘I am not” said Horus. “Anubis is” said Isis. “Isis is lying”, said Anubis. Only one god was telling the truth, the other two were lying. Who is the greatest?
A father and son work in the same factory. The father takes 30 minutes to walk to his factory and the son is able to cover the same distance in only 20 minutes. If the father were to leave the house 5 minutes earlier, how soon would his son catch up with his father?
There are 10 identical bottles of identical pills. Each bottle contains 100 pills. Out of 10 bottles 9 have 1 gram of pills but 1 bottle has pills of 1.1 gram in weight. Given a measurement scale, how would you find the heavy bottle? You can use the scale only once.
