Question There are 4 people who take 1, 2, 5, and 9 minutes respectively to cross a bridge at night.

There is only one torch which is required while crossing the bridge.(so either one or two people have to cross together considering the fact that torch has to be brought back to again cross the bridge). Not more than 2 people can cross the bridge at one time. What is the minimum time taken by all of them to cross the bridge? *

Out of 9 similar balls 1 is defective(heavier/ lighter). We have 1 weighing scale. What is the minimum no. of times we have to weigh the balls to identify the defective ball? How many times do the hands of a clock overlap in 24 hours?

There is a English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the word?

There are 14 punc-tu-a-tion marks in Eng-lish gram-mar. Can you name at least half of them? What number comes next in the following sequence? 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 5/4, 3/2, ? What are the next two pairs ofletters below? SO, ND, JF, MA, ??, ??

A man runs a workshop in city.He bought two lathes to use in his workshop.However he found out afterwards that they did not serve the purpose for which he had bought them.He sold them each for Rs. 600 making a loss of 20% on one of them and a profit of 20% on the other. Did he lose or gain in the transaction and how much did each machine cost him?

A certain street contains 100 buildings. They are numbered from 1 to 100.How many 9's are used in these numbers? If you were to construct a 6 x 6 checkered square (i.e., a 6 x 6 chess board), how many squares would there be in total?

1. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables? * 2. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? 3.Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh. This is an ancient problem dating back to about 310 A.D. Demochares had lived one forth of his life as a boy, one fifth as a youth,one third as a man and has spent thirteen years in his dotage.How old is demochares? How can you make a total of 1000 by using sixteen 4's? A five feet long staff casts a shadow 2 feet long. Can you find the height of a steeple whose shadow at the same hour is 120 feet long?

A short man takes three steps to a tall man's two steps.They both start out on the left foot.How many steps do they have to take before they are both steping out on the right foot together? There are two numbers with the difference of 3 between them and the difference of their squares is 51.Can you find the numbers?

Can you split 34 parts into two parts such that 4/7 of one of the part equals 2/5 of the other? A heavy tree trunk can be sawed into a 12 ft long piece in one minute.How long will it take to saw it into twelve equal pieces?

A man wants to reach a window which is 40 feet above the ground.The distance from the foot of ladder to wall is 9 feet.how long should the ladder be?

Here is a simple arithmetical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own flowery,poetical language.If one fifth of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower, one third flew to the slandbara, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour and one bee continued to fly about,attracted on each side by fragrant Ketaki and Malati,What was the total number of bees? The product of three consecutive numbers when divided by each of them in turn, the sum of the three quotient will be 74. What are the numbers?

A fraction has the denominator gretaer than its numerator by 6. But if you add 8 to denominator the value of fraction would then become 1/3.Can you find this fraction? Little Mammu was playing marbles with her friend Nawal I heard her say to him.If you give me one of your marbles I'l have as many as you. Nawal replied If you give me one of your marble and I'l have twice as many as you. I wondered how many marbles each had! What do you think? A cement block balances evenly on the scales with three quarters of a pound and three quarters of a block. What is the weight of the whole block?

There is a number, the second digit of which is smaller than its first digit by 4, and if number was divided by the digits'sum ,the quotient would be 7.Can you find the number?

A lady bought a used pressure cooker for a Rs 60.She somehow did not find it useful and so when a friend of hers offered her Rs 70. She sold it to her.However she felt bad after selling it and decided to buy it back from her friend by offering her Rs 80.After having bought it once again she felt that she did not really need the cooker.So she sold it at the auction for Rs 90. How much profit did she make? Did she at all make any profit? A number of cats got together and decided to kill between them 999919 mice.Every cat killed an equal number of mice. How many cats do you think there were? Oh, by the way let me clarify just two points. It is not 999919 cats each killed one mouse because I have used the word 'Mice'. Another ,I can give you one clue : each cat killed more mice than there were cats. It is a matter of common knowledgr that 0 degree Centrigrade is the same as 32 degree Fahrenheit.It is also known fact that 100 degree Centrigrade equals 212 degree Fahrenheit.But there is temperature that gives the same reading on both Centrigrade and Fahrenheit scales.Can you find this temperature? It is a small railway station and there are 25 station on that line . At each of the 25 station the passengers can get tickets for any of other 24 stations. How many different kinds of tickets do you think the booking clerk has to keep? There is a number which is very peculiar.This number is three times the sum of its digits .Can you find the number?

Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7. how long will the same clock take to strike 10.?

Two identical trains , at the equator start travelling round the world in opposite directions. they start together run at the same speed and are on different tracks.Which train will wear out its wheel treads first?

While visiting a small town in the United states.I lost my overcoat in a bus.when I reported the matter to the bus company I was asked the number of the bus.Though I did not remember the exact number, I did remember that bus number had a certain peculiarity about it.The number plate showed the bus number was a perfact square and also if plate was turned upside down, the number would still be a perfact square --of course it was not? I came to know from bus company they had only 500 numbered from 1 to 500.From this I was able to deduce the bus number .Can you tell what was the number. All the nine digits (Used once) are arranged here so as to form four square numbers: 9,81,324,576 How would you put them together so as to form a single smallest possible square number and a single largest possible square number? There is a clock that has a special way of telling the time. It does not have any hands or numbers on it, but it has a chimer. If the time is 1 o'clock, it chimes once. If the time is 2 o'clock, it chimes twice, and so forth. The time gap between any two chimes is 4 seconds. How many seconds would it take you to know the time, after the first chime is heard, if it is 4 o'clock?

Last vacation, my cousin came over to stay at my home. We made the most of her stay at my place... and I even earned a few chocolates. Everyday, we would play a game of chess. Whoever lost the game owed a chocolate to the other. After the last game we played (that was the day she was to leave), we counted the number of games each of us had won and lost. Wow! I had won more than her. So, she handed me 12 chocolates... though she herself was the winner in 11 games. How many days did my cousin spend at my place? Two planes headed towards each other, and are currently 440 miles apart. If one is going 240 miles per hour and the other 360 miles per hour, how far apart will they be four minutes before they meet?

Frank weighs half as much as John, and Hubert weighs three times as much as Frank. Their combined weight is 720 pounds. How much does each man weigh?

A certain investment doubles Joe's money every five years. If Joe leaves all the money invested, in 40 years he'll have 384,000. How long will it take to have $384,000 if he starts with twice as much money? How much money did he start with? What is 50% heavier than a cubic foot of coal, but when reduced in weight by 50% weighs less than a cubic foot of coal?

A plane travels at a speed of 400 miles per hour for 1200 miles, and then returns by the same route at a speed of 300 miles per hour. What is the average speed for the total trip?

Bill can solve 32 math riddles per hour, and his friend Sam takes three hours to solve the same number. If they both work on them, how long will it take for them to solve 32 math riddles?

A young guy who has just started learning to drive went down a one way street but didnt break the law. Why? One fine sunny morning a ship was in the harbour when all of a sudden it started to skin. There was nothing wrong with the ship and the weather conditions were calm yet there it sank, right in front of everyone. Why? I am staring at a photo of someone. I dont have any brothers or sisters and yet that mans father is my fathers son. Who am I looking at? What can you hold without touching it? If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you dont have it. What is it? What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move? 1. What is Diwali also known as? 2. Thalai Deepavali" is a unique Diwali custom of which Indian state? 3. What type of oil is traditionally used in oil lamps lit during Deepavali?

Think of any number. Add 7 to it. Subtract 2. Subtract your original number. Multiply this by 4. Subtract 2. You will always get 18. Why?

Two men sit down to dinner, each with his own son but there are only 3 plates and each person has his own. Can you work out how? A cable, 16 meters in length, hangs between two pillars that are both 15 meters high. The ends of the cable are attached to the tops of the pillars. At its lowest point, the cable hangs 7 meters above the ground. The Question: How far are the two pillars apart? Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value equal to the number of segments used to write it. The Question: Which number has this property? Hans is standing behind Gerrie and at the same time Gerrie is standing behind Hans. The Question: How is this possible?
How many black dots can you find in the image?

A sadhu has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he sees the sun rise. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes him 9 paces. How many steps are there? What letter is next in this sequence?. O T T F F S S E _ There is a water-cask with three different water-taps. With the smallest tap the water-cask can be filled in 20 minutes. With middle the tap the water-cask can be filled in 12 minutes. With the largest tap the water-cask can be filled in 5 minutes.How long does it take to fill the water-cask with the three taps together?

Each of the digits 1 up to 6 must be used exactly once in a multiplication of the following form: ... ... = ... The Question: How should the six digits be placed?

A man was changing a wheel on his car when the four nuts used to hold the wheel in place fell into a sewer drain and were lost. He was afraid he was stuck there, but a passing boy made a very useful suggestion which enabled the man to drive off. What was the boys idea?

What is the next term in this sequence 2 9 3 1 8 4 3 6 5 7 .? In the middle of a round pool lies a beautiful water-lily. The water-lily doubles in size every day. After exactly 20 days the complete pool will be covered by the lily. After how many days will half of the pool be covered by the water-lily?

In a Bicycle Ride, what is the position of a rider, after he passes the second placed rider?

A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back downwards. How many days does it take before the snail reaches the top of the pit? Find the number?:

1. Some months have 31 days, how many have 28? 2. There are three apples and you take 2 away, how many apples do you have? 3. What has 20 legs, one head and four backs? Find the missing number in The Empty Triangle.

Read the sentence below: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS The Question: How many times do you see the letter F in the sentence above? Count them only once! Do not go back and count them again!

A dairy farmer had 54 litres of milk in three cans. He wanted to make sure each can contained 18 litres. First, he poured 1/4 of the first can into the second can. Then he poured 1/2 of the second can into the third can. Finally, he poured 1/3 of the third can into the first can. How many litres did each can contain before he started pouring? 1. A farmer has 15 cows, all but 8 die. How many does he have left? * 2. Divide 40 by half and add ten. What is the answer? * 3. John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named? If there were a total of 11 bicycles and tricycles. The total number of wheels were 29, how many tricycles were there?
How many Squares?

Pick the piece thats missing in the diagram.?

I have one, you have one. If you remove the first letter, a bit remains. If you remove the second, bit still remains. After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains. It dies hard!
How many triangles?

A man holidaying abroad fell off a yacht into deep water. He could not swim and he was not wearing anything to keep him afloat. It took 30 minutes for the people on the yacht to realize someone was missing. The missing man was rescued two hours later. Why didn't he drown?

Answer

16

3 22

Startling starting staring string sting sing sin in i

Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mar 7/4 ( 1/4 is added to each number in sequence )

MJ, JA. They are the first letters of the months.

Total loss is of Rs 50. and machines cost is 750 and 500

20

91

asparagus and rhubarb ,strawberry,lettuce

must be sixty years of age. 444 + 444 + 44 + 44 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4

200 feet

They will never step out with right foot tegether.

10 , 7

14 and 20

Eleven Minutes.The twelth piece does not require sawing.

41 feet

15

4,5 and 6

7/13

Mammu had 5 Marbles and Nawal 7

3 LBS

84

20

991 cats killed 1009 mice.

- 40 degree

25*24 =600

27

10.5

Naturally , the train travelling against the spin of the earth.This train will wear out its wheels more quickly,because the centri

196

The lowest square number is 139854276 the square of 11826 and highest 923187456 the square of 30384

16

34

40 miles apart.

John weighs 240 pounds and Hubert 360.

$1,500

Anything that is 50% heavier than a cubic foot of coal will weigh less when reduced in weight by 50%. Think of it this way: 150

343 miles per hour (342.857 to be more precise). it would take 3/4 of an hour, or 45 minutes for the two of them to solve the 32 math riddles.

He was walking

It was a submarine

I am looking at a photograph of my son A conversation A secret Temperature

Festival of lights,Tamil Nadu,Mustard Oil

It is a grandfather, his son and his grandson.

Zero Meters

TWENTY-NINE

Hans and Gerrie are standing with their backs towards each other!

49 N

3 54 = 162

Use one nut from each of the other 3 wheels

19 days

Second

16th day

12, 2, 1 table with 4 chairs

12, 33. 9

8, 90, John

14

Habit

27

He fell into the Dead Sea, which lies between Israel and Jordan. The water is so salty and dense that anyone in it floats very e

Logic

Just count the nines in the numbers: 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99. Note: 99 contains TWO nines!

total number of squares = 12 + 22 + 32 + 42 + ... + 62 = 91.

(2+7) x 3

While striking 7 the clock strikes its first gong at 7 o'clock and it strikes 6 more at regular intervals.These 6 intervals take 7 seconds so that the interval between gongs is 7/6 seconds.However to strike 10 there are 9 intervals each taking 7/6 seconds for a total of 10.5

If it is 4 o'clock, the clock will chime 3 times after the first chime is heard. Since the time gap between any two chimes is 4 seconds, this will take 3 4 = 12 seconds. Now, to know what time it really is, you have to wait an 'extra chime gap' to see if the clock chimes again. Adding the extra 4 seconds, the total time required is 12 + 4 = 16 seconds.

My cousin won 5 games. Since I got 24 chocolates, I must have won 24 games more than my cousin did. So, I won a total of 29 games. Thus, the total number of games that we played was 34. Since we played a game each day, that was the number of days my cousin stayed at my house!

Combining their speeds we know that they are closing the gap at 600 miles per hour, which is 10 miles per minute (600 divided by 60 minutes in an hour). Therefore they will go 40 miles in the last four minutes (4 minutes times 10 miles).

If John weighs twice as much as Frank, and Hubert three times as much, dividing their total weight by six gives us Franks weight (think x + 2x + 3x = 720). 720 divided by 6 tells us that Frank weighs, 120 pounds, so John weighs 240 pounds and Hubert 360.

It would take 35 years if he invested twice as much. Think of it this way; in the first scenario he has twice as much in 5 years, leaving 35 more to reach $384,000. He started with $1,500. This is basic algebra: 384,000 = x (original investment) times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 times 2 (eight doublings). Thus $384,000 = 256x. Divide each side of the equation by 256 and you get $1,500 = x, so we know he started with $1,500.

343 miles per hour (342.857 to be more precise). Many people answer 350 miles per hour, thinking they can just average together 400 miles per hour and 300 miles per hour. However, this doesn't work, because although the distance is the same, the travel occurs for longer times at the two different speeds. Thus, 3 hours are spent going 400 mph on the first part, and 4 hours going 300 mph on the return. A total of 2400 miles are traveled in 7 hours. 2400 divided by 7 is 343 (rounded).
If Bill solves them three times as fast, he would be solving 24 of the 32 riddles, while Sam did 8 of them. Since 24 is 3/4 of 32, it would take 3/4 of an hour, or 45 minutes for the two of them to solve the 32 math riddles.

You got the number 18 because it doesnt matter what number you start with at the beginning, this problem is more of an illusion as the unknown number has been calculated mathematically to reach 18.

The pillars stand next to each other. Which means that the cable goes 8 meters straight down and 8 meters straight up.

He sees the sun rise on step 33. He picks up the pebble on the 21st step and tosses it on the 22nd step. The remaining 27 steps are taken three at a time which is 9 paces First letter of one,two,three and so on The smallest tap fills 1/20 water-cask in 1 minute. The middle tap fills 1/12 water-cask in 1 minute. The largest tap fills 1/5 water-cask in 1 minute. Together they fill 1/20 + 1/12 + 1/5 = 1/3 water-cask in 1 minute. Therefore, the whole watercask is filled in 3 minutes

There are two sequences 2,3,4,5 and 9,18,36,72

Because the water-lily doubles its size every day and the complete pool is covered after 20 days, half of the pool will be covered one day before that, after 19 days.

On the first day, the snail reaches a height of 5 meters and slides down 4 meters at night, and thus ends at a height of 1 meter. On the second day, he reaches 6 meters, but slides back to 2 meters. On the third day, he reaches 7 meters, but slides back to 3 meters. ... On the fifteenth day, he reaches 19 meters, but slides back to 15 meters. On the sixteenth day, he reaches 20 meters, so now he is at the top of the pit! Conclusion: The snail reaches the top of the pit on the 16th day!...

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