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Some people like to get away from thinking by thinking! Here is the beginning of a list of some fun riddles. I'll keep adding to the list. If you've got a riddle, please email me and I'll add it and let everyone know where it came from! If you are a student, I'll add you school's website to Coollinks - if you have your own site, and it offers educational and/or interesting stuff, I'll add that to Coollinks! Most of these riddles will not be age-specific. The challenging riddles are challenging regardless of your age or level of education. When I add age-specific riddles, I'll include the age range. If you send me a riddle, please be specific if there is an age. Thanks! |
Safe Shopping - Difficult
In a certain town there are three houses and three grocers.
Each grocer sells a different product, each house has exactly one shopper, and each house needs all three products.
Now, the families of these houses are not on very good terms, and don't like bumping into one another one the way to the grocer's.
Come up with paths connecting the three houses to the three grocers (i.e. nine paths in total) such that no two paths ever cross.
There are no paths between two grocers, so each shopper must return home before going onto the next grocer.
Obviously, there are no paths in between two houses.
Here is the general layout of the town (G = grocer, H = House)
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How Can This Happen?
Think Out of the Box
3 men went into a motel. The clerk said the room was $30, so each man paid $10 and went into the room.
Later, the clerk realized that the room was only $25, so he sent the bellboy to their room with $5.
On the way, the bellboy could not figure out how to split the $5 evenly among the 3 men.
So, he gave each man $1 and kept the remaining $2 for himself.
This meant that the 3 men each paid $9 for the room, which is a total of $27.
Add the $2 that the bellboy kept = $29.
Where is the other dollar?
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Where Is It?
Strange - Don't Get Caught Up in This!
More evil than the devil - the poor have it; the rich need it; if you swallow it, you'll die.
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What Is Is?
Strange - Think Simple!
The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space -
it exists in every moment and in every place
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The Martians - Challenging
On Mars, there are two types of Martians - the Reds and the Blues. They all look alike.
The Reds can only lie. The Blues can only tell the truth.
An Earthling visits Mars and meets 3 Martians.
He asks Martian#1 , "What color are you?". Martian#1 replies in Martian.
He asks Martian#2, "What did he say?". Martian#2 says, "He said he's blue."
He does not ask Martian#3 a question. Martian#3 says, "#1 is lying. #2 is red. I'm blue."
What color are the three Martians? How did you figure it out?
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Connect the Strings - Medium
In a room, there are 2 strings hanging from the ceiling, too far apart for you to hold at the same time.
There is a table in the room with tools, including a hammer, screwdriver, and pliers.
How do you hold the two strings at the same time?
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The Five Hats - Challenging
A man has 3 sons. He also has 5 hats - 3 white, 2 black.
He lines up his sons, one behind the other, all with eyes open, and places one hat on each boy's head.
He tells his sons that each must try to logically figure out what color hat he is wearing.
The one who can do this will inherit all of his money.
He asks the son in the back, who can see his brothers ahead of him. But the son does not know.
He asks the son in the middle, who can see one brother ahead of him. But the son does not know.
He asks the son in the front, who cannot see anyone, and he knows.
How??
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The 12 Coins - Very Challenging!
You have 12 coins - same appearance and size.
All but one have the same weight.
In 3 weightings on a balance scale, determine:
Which coin is out of weight
Whether it is light or heavy.
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Two Wizards - Medium
There are two wizards, one of whom is told the sum of two numbers from 1 to 100, and the other is told their product.
Summus and Productio are the two wizards.
Summus is told the sum, Productio, the product.
The conversation is as follows:
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