Best Riddles of 2014 | Best Riddles and Brain Teasers

#181 - Cut Board Maths Picture Problem

As you can see in the picture, you have a hole with dimensions 9 ft. x 2 ft. Also available to you is a wooden board with dimensions 6 ft. x 3 ft.Now you have to cover the hole with this board and you are allowed to cut the board into two pieces. Please see to it that the hole is completely covered and the boards should not be overlapping each other or extending beyond the edge.How will you cut the board?

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As you can see in the picture, this is how you must cut the board and join them to cover the hole completely without leaving any gap.

#182 - Simple Plexer Puzzle

What does this simple plexer means ?

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Rising Mercury

#183 - Tennis 4 Balls Puzzle

You are given four tennis balls and asked to arrange those balls in a manner that the distance between each one of them is exactly equal.How will you do it?

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As you can see in the figure given, you will have to place the balls at the corners of an equilateral triangle pyramid to get the desired result. You can’t do it in just two dimensions.

#184 - Mathematics Trivia Question

Can you think of any three dimensional shape that comprises of exactly two surfaces ?

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A cone comprises of exactly two surfaces despite of the fact that it is a three dimensional figure.

#185 - Very Easy Rebus Puzzle

Can you tell what this rebus puzzle is trying to depict?

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Fat Chance is what it is trying to depict. You can guess that with the bulged out letters.

#186 - Smart Thinking Riddle

A man is on his death bed. He has two sons. All these years, he has treated them equally and has not put any sort of discrimination between them. Now, he owns a land which he wants to divide equally between his sons before he takes his final breath. The only problem is that the land is not in any symmetrical shape and thus can’t simply be divided into two equal halves.

Can you figure out a method to divide the land without going through all the extensive measurements such that both sons are happy with their share of land ?

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The only way to divide the land without measuring is to ask one son to divide the land in two parts and then ask the other son to choose from the two lands first. In this way, there is no chance of cheating and the division will be almost fair.

#187 - How Many Triangles Are There Riddle

Count the number of triangles in the given picture.

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24

Just to make it easy for you to understand, we have numbered the triangles. So let us start calculating.
Ten distinct triangles numbered from 1 to 10.
Now, (1+2), (1+2), (1+2+3), (1+2+3+4), (2+3), (2+3+4), (3+4), (5+6), (5+6+7+8), (7+8), (1+2+5+6), (3+4+7+8), (2+6+9), (3+7+10), (6+9), (7+10) and (6+7+9+10).

Thus the total number of triangles are 24.

#188 - Matchstick Picture Logic Puzzle

If you look at the figure given, you will find a square formed with match sticks. This figure comprises of five squares. Can you move the matchsticks such that the resulting figure consists of ten squares?Please note that, you can just drag the matchsticks and can’t rotate them and also you have just four moves. How will you do it?

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If you look at the answer figure, you will understand which matchsticks to move and in what manner.

#189 - Dice Picture Riddle

The picture shows the dice results in each couple of throws. If they are actually following a pattern, can you find out the missing one?

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The last missing throw will have 3 as the result. This is because, with each pair of the throws you can find that the total sum is increasing by three and then decreasing by one. Therefore the missing throw be 3.

#190 - Puzzles In Science

You are confined in a room and given two metal rods. Out of these two rods, one is magnet and the other is the iron rod. They look starkly similar. You dont have any other metal object in the room.

How will you decide which one of those is magnet?

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This is pretty simple as the magnet has its magnetic field at poles in general. Then you can just keep one rod on the surface and bring the tip of the other rod towards the center. If the rod which is lying down gets attracted towards your rod, then the one you are holding is the magnet and if it does not then the one lying down is the magnet.