#431 - Easy Matchstick Puzzle
In the given figure, you can see that four match sticks are used to form a square. Can you form five squares by using six matches?
Simple answer :=)
#432 - Good Critical Thinking Question
There are a certain number of blue balls and a certain number of red balls in an urn. You pick up two balls from the urn randomly. If you find that they are opposite in colors, you throw them and put a red ball in the urn. If they are of same colors, you throw them and put a blue ball in the urn.
Thus you are reducing the number of balls in the urn one at a time no matter what the case is. After going through it again and again. Only one ball will be remaining in the end. If you are told the respective number of blue and red balls at the outset, will you be able to predict the color of the final ball ?
Whenever you are drawing the balls, the number of red balls can decrease by either 2 or not decrease at all. However, in the case of blue balls, at each drawing, they can either go down by 1 or increase by 1.
Therefore, if the outset is assumed to begin with at least one ball in the urn to begin with and the number of red balls are 0 or even in number, all the red balls will finish and a blue ball will remain at the end. In the other case, one red ball will remain.
#433 - Visual Thinking Puzzle
Ten coins have been arranged as you can see in the given picture. In this arrangement, a triangle is formed pointing upwards. You have to invert the position of the triangle and make it point downwards while just changing the position of 3 coins only.Can you do it?
See the picture given. It is self-explanatory. Just move the coins as shown and you will get the desired result.
#434 - Matchstick Tricks Puzzle
Can you place six matchsticks in a manner that each of the matchstick is in touch will the other five matchsticks ?
The given solution in the figure is not the only one. Can you find another way?
#435 - Witty Clever Riddle
A charming young lady was approached by a kind looking old woman in a restaurant. The old woman said to her, 'You look exactly like my younger daughter. Sadly she passed away a couple of months back. Could you do me a favor and say 'Goodbye, mother' with a kind smile on your face when I leave?
The young lady agreed for the same and said, 'Goodbye, mother' when the old woman left. Soon after, she got the most disengaging shock of her life.
Can you guess what the shock was?
The young lady was then approached by the waiter and presented by the bill. The old woman has assured the waiter that her daughter will pay for her meal.
#436 - Who Am I Trivia Question
The measurement of time
That cant be found on a clock
But can be looked upon on a map
Who am I ?
I am Mississippi.
(One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi etc.)
#437 - Coin Puzzle
I inserted a coin in a bottle and closed its mouth with the help of a cork. Now, I was able to take the coin out from the bottle without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle. Can you tell me how I did it ?
It is possible if the cork was pushed inside the bottle and then, the coin was taken out normally.
#438 - Interesting Puzzle To Solve
In an office's desk, you find a unique method that shows the current day of the month. Two numbered cubes are used to depict the current date.
Can you find out the numbers on both the cubes so that each date can be mentioned using them?
Please note that you have to use both the cubes to display any date. Thus the 1st day must be represented by 01 and so on.
First cube has the following numbers:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Second cube has the following numbers:
0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8
If you noticed, we have not used number 9 on any cube. This is because, you can always invert the number 6 to make it 9.
Please note that an alternate solution is also available for this problem. If you can find it, do post in the comments section.
#439 - Solve The Picture Riddle
Can you arrange the six given marbles in a manner that each one of them is touching all four marbles of different colors?
To make it happen, you must arrange the marbles as the vertices of an octahedron. See the image for reference.
#440 - Simple But Tricky Question
A pet show was happening in my locality. I went down along with my kids. In that show, I noticed that all except two of the entries were cats. All except two were dogs and all except two were fishes.
Can you find out how many of each animals were present in that pet show?
one dog, one cat and one fish
Just muse at the statements with more concentration. All except two were dogs and all except two were cats. Thus we can fairly assume that two animals were not dogs and two were not cats. Now one of that animal that is not dog can be a cat. Similarly one of that animal that is not a cat can be a dog. If we combine this result with the fact that all except two of the pets were fish, we can come up with the result that in that pet show that day, there was one dog, one cat and one fish.