Gypsy, Heather and Miriam went parachuting. They jumped out of the airplane one after the other. This is what we know about their last jump. Sometime before Gypsy, Miriam landed. Gypsy jumped out of the airplane either before or after Heather and Miriam. There were more people who jumped out of the airplane before Miriam than the number of people who landed before Gypsy. In what sequence did the three women jumped out of the airplane?
Gypsy, Heather and Miriam went parachuting. They jumped out of the airplane one after the other. This is what we know about their last jump. Sometime before Gypsy, Miriam landed. Gypsy jumped out of the airplane either before or after Heather and Miriam. There were more people who jumped out of the airplane before Miriam than the number of people who landed before Gypsy. In what sequence did the three women jumped out of the airplane?
A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $600 for it and he is very content with this strong animal. After a year the value of the horse has increased to $700 and he decides to sell the horse. But a few days later he regrets his decision so he buys back the horse again. Unfortunately he has to pay $800 to get it back so he loses $100. After another year of owning the horse he finally decides to sell the horse for $900. What is the overall profit the man makes?
A genie transformed Abou, the merchat and his three brothers into animals. He turned one into a pig, one into a donkey, one into a camel, and one into a goat. Ahmed didn’t become a pig, and he wasn’t a goat Sharif wasn’t a camel, and he wasn’t a pig If Ahmed was not a camel, Omar was not a pig Abou didn’t become a goat, and he was not a pig Omar was not a goat nor was he a camel What did each of the brothers become?
A boy was carrying a basket of eggs. He fell down and all the eggs broke. When he went back home without any eggs his mother asked how many he had been carrying altogether in the basket. He was unable to remember. But he was able to recall that when they were counted two at a time one was left, when counted three at a time one was left, when counted four at a time one was left, when counted five at a time none were left. Can you tell how many eggs were broken?
Jack is a farmer and owns a chicken farm. One day, he took a basket of fresh eggs to the market to sell. The first person bought half of all the eggs in the basket and half an egg. Then, the second person bought half of the remaining eggs and half an egg. Later, the third person bought half of the remaining eggs and half an egg. Now Jack’s basket has only 1 egg left. If no eggs were broken in the process, how many eggs did he originally have in his basket?
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?
You were captured and given one chance to escape with your life. You’re forced to play Russian Roulette with a 6-cylinder pistol. Each cylinder can hold 1 bullet. The gun has 2 bullets in it and the rounds were placed consecutively and the barrel was spun. You took one shot and heard the click, luckily you didn’t get a bullet. You can choose to spin the barrel before the next shot. You want to live. Should you spin the barrel to improve your chances of survival?
A young man walks through the forest. He comes to a bridge. In front of the bridge is a large man carrying an axe. The man says, “If you want to cross this bridge, you must tell me a statement. If I think the statement is true, you will be strangled to death. If I say the statement is false, your head will be chopped off.” A few minutes later, the young man walked over the bridge, while the larger man stood pondering. What was the statement the young man had given?
A man was working on a night shift when he suddenly received a telephone call giving him some information causing him to dash home at breakneck speed. On bursting into his bedroom quite breathless he found his informant was quite correct and his wife was in bed with someone he had never even clapped eyes on before. However, far from being angry he greeted them both with a friendly smile and a few hours later was bringing them both breakfast in bed. What is the reason for this?
You have two coconuts and you want to find out how high they can be dropped from a 100 story building before they break. Now, the elevator in this building costs a quarter to operate-meaning you want to minimize the number of trips you must take. So how many trips would it take at most to figure out how far the coconuts can fall? Bear in mind the coconuts are identical; they’ll break at the same point. Also, if they don’t break, they’re considered as good as new.
At the recent downhill mountain bike race, four entrants entered the challenging slalom event. Alan came first. The entrant wearing number 2 wore red, whereas John didn’t wear yellow. The loser wore blue and Steve wore number 1. Kev beat Steve and the person who came second wore number 3. The entrant in yellow beat the entrant in green. Only one of the entrants wore the same number as their final position. Can you determine who finished where, the number and colour they wore?
Two schoolgirls were traveling from the city to a dacha (summer cottage) on an electric train. “I notice,” one of the girls said, “that the dacha trains coming in the opposite direction pass us every 5 minutes. What do you think-how many dacha trains arrive in the city in an hour, given equal speeds in both directions?” “Twelve, of course,” the other girl answered, “because 60 divided by 5 equals 12.” The first girl did not agree. What do you think?
Arthur lives with his parents in Chicago. Last week, while his parents were out, Arthur’s next-door neighbor Sophie came round to spend the evening. At one point, she popped out to buy some cigarettes. Just then, two men burst into the apartment and, ignoring Arthur, took the TV set, the stereo and a computer. Arthur had never seen the men before, and they had no legal right to remove the equipment, yet he did nothing to stop them. In fact, he didn’t even act surprised by their behavior. Why not?
A man is about to take a trip to Iceland. He is awoken in the middle of the night by his security guard the night before he is supposed to leave. His guard tells him he needs to take a boat rather than a plane, because he dreamt that the plane was going to crash. The guard then leaves because it’s the end of his shift. The man listens to his guard and takes a boat. Soon after arriving in Iceland he hears that the plane he was supposed to travel on crashed. When he arrives home he fires his guard. Why?
