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Riddles
Seasons, Seconds, Centuries and Minutes- Brain Teasers
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?
Answer: The letter N.
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?
Answer: The letter N.
What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does you better open up?
Answer: Opportunity
Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat. Everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?
Answer:-They were a grandmother, mother, and daughter.
I'm not a blanket, yet I cover the ground; a crystal from heaven that doesn't make a sound. What am I?
Snowflake
An elevator is on the 10th floor. It goes down 7 floors, then up 4 floors, then down 6 floors, then up 3 floors, then down 5 floors. On which floor is the elevator now?
The elevator is on the 1st floor. (Start at 10, then move down 7 to 3, up 4 to 7, down 6 to 1, up 3 to 4, and down 5 to 1.)
What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
Answer: A road
I have a large money box, 10 inches wide and 5 inches tall, Roughly how many coins can I place until my money box is no longer empty?
Answer: Just one, after which it will no longer be empty.
You have 12 identical-looking balls, but one is of a different weight (heavier or lighter). You have a balance scale and can only use it three times. How do you find the odd ball?
1. Divide the balls into three groups of four. 2. Weigh two of the groups against each other: - If they balance, the odd ball is in the third group. - If they don? balance, the odd ball is in the heavier or lighter group. 3. Take the group with the odd ball and divide it into three. Repeat the weighing process.
Two people born on the same day, from the same mother and father, but they are not twins. How is this possible?
They are part of a set of triplets (or more). They have other siblings born on the same day, which means they are not twins.
You have two glasses, one filled with water and the other filled with wine. You take a spoonful of water and pour it into the wine glass, then take a spoonful of the wine-water mixture and pour it back into the water glass. Is there more water in the wine or more wine in the water?
The amounts of water in the wine and wine in the water are the same. The process of mixing and exchanging liquids balances out the quantities.
What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?
Answer: A fence
In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
Answer: They all do.
You have a 5-liter jug and a 3-liter jug. Neither has any markings on it. How can you measure exactly 4 liters using these jugs?
1. Fill the 5-liter jug to the top. 2. Pour water from the 5-liter jug into the 3-liter jug until it is full. This leaves you with 2 liters in the 5-liter jug. 3. Empty the 3-liter jug and pour the 2 liters from the 5-liter jug into the 3-liter jug. 4. Fill the 5-liter jug again and pour it into the 3-liter jug until it is full. Now you have exactly 4 liters left in the 5-liter jug.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The egg. Evolutionarily, the first egg that contained the genetic mutation to become a chicken was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken, making the egg the precursor.