#331 - Sherlock Riddle
Sherlock Homes was challenge to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?
He drew a long line adjacent to the pre drawn line making the first line smaller.
Sherlock Homes was challenge to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?
He drew a long line adjacent to the pre drawn line making the first line smaller.
How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?
XIX. On taking one i.e. I, we get XX i.e. 20
James named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third gamma and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son’s name.
What
A brand new Beats Headphone was on sale at 20% as a promotional offer. By what percent must the headphone price be increased to sell it at the original price again ?
25%.
Suppose a $10 item is reduced by 20%, the price will drop to $8. Now to make it the original price we must add $2 more which is 25% of $8.
Bruce Banner was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.
How many candles are they left with in the end ?
Three.
The candles that were not extinguished will melt down completely eventually. Thus only three candles will remain in the end.
Indiana Jones has found two gold bars in a treasure he just excavated from the ground. But the jungle people won’t let him take away their treasure. He runs and come across the only rope bridge that connects the other side of the river to the jungle. He is aware of the fact that the rope can accommodate the weight of only 160 lbs. He weighs 140 lbs and the gold bars are each 12 lbs. Still he manages to cross the rope bridge without shredding any cloth off his body.
How?
Indiana Jones keeps juggling the gold bars in his hand while crossing the bridge.
While preparing the table for dinner, wife came up with an idea to tease his mathematician husband. She asked her husband to pick nine toothpicks and make ten without breaking any toothpick.
The husband was also smart and did it within seconds.
How ?
He aligned the toothpicks to form TEN using one toothpick for each line.
A girl died and her soul was received in heaven. She was astonished to find uncountable naked people who looked as beautiful as they must have been in their twenties. She looked around to find anyone she knew and spotted Adam and Eve.
How could she recognize them?
As Adam and Eve were not born out of a women, they never had umbilical cords and hence were without navels.
You are a thief and you are being punished for your crime. The people of village have tied you head down on a tree with a rope that has been anchored in the ground. A candle is burning below the rope which is slowly burning it away. Just below your head, a Lion has been left loose who is waiting for you to drop down on the ground so he can have you as his lunch.
You have to survive the scenario. How will you do it?
Just sing the Happy Birthday song and the Lion will blow the candle in celebration