#231 - Reach Top Riddle

An ape is trying to climb on a pole that is 60 feet high. Due to the slippery surface, the ape climbs 3 feet in a minute only to slip back 2 feet.

How much time do you think the monkey will take to reach the top of the pole?

Hint: The answer is not sixty minutes.

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The ape will be able to reach the top in 58 minutes.

Since the ape slips back two feet after climbing 3 feet every minute, he will reach 57 feet in 57 minutes. Now the remaining distance is 3 feet and the ape will take 1 more minute to reach there. He wont slip back because he has already reached the top.

#232 - Looking Riddle

Rohit is looking at Naina, but Naina is looking at Amish. Rohit is married, but Amish is not.

Is a married person looking at an unmarried person or not?

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Yes, a married person is looking at Amish, who is unmarried. If Naina is unmarried, Rohit is looking at her who is married.

#233 - Calculate Sibling Family Riddle

In a family, there are many children. Every boy in the family has as many brothers as the sisters. However, each girl has twice number of brothers as that of sisters.

Can you calculate the number of siblings in the given family ?

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Suppose that the number of boys be "b" and number of girls be "g".

Now, each boy has equal number of brothers and sisters:
(b - 1) = g
=> (b - g) = 1 ------ (1)

In addition, each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters:
2 (g-1) = b
=> (2g - b) = 2 ------- (2)

From (1) and (2)
g = 3 and b = 4

Therefore, there are 4 boys and 3 girls in the family.

#234 - Cross Bridge Logic Problem

A car is crossing a 20km long bridge. The bridge can support at most 1500kg of weight over it. If somehow, the weight on the bridge becomes more than that, it will break.

Now, the weight of the car is exactly 1500kg. At the midway, a bird comes and sits on the roof of the car. This bird weighs exactly 200 gram.
Can you tell if the bridge breaks at this point or not?

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The bridge will not break.
This is because when the bridge reaches the mid-point, it would have traveled 10km. While traveling 10km, the car would have used more than 200 grams of fuel. Thus, the weight of bird will not add much to the existing weight.

#235 - Romans Castle Brain Twister

Once upon a time, there was a castle on a square island. The entire island was surrounded with a 14m wide trench. The Romans had wanted to invade the castle and had brought a few wooden planks along with them to facilitate themselves in crossing the moat. The planks were however found to be only 13m long.

The Romans still managed to cross the trench. How did they do it?

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They managed to cross the trench by placing the planks as it is shown in the picture.

#236 - Fresh Egg Trick Riddle

A container contains hundred eggs. They can be either fresh or rotten. What is sure is the fact that there is at least one fresh egg in that container.

If you are asked to pick two eggs randomly from the container, at least one of them will be rotten.

Can you calculate how many eggs in that container are fresh ?

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Only one egg in that container is fresh.

The question tells us that at least one egg in that container is fresh. Then the question says when two eggs are picked at random, at least one egg will be rotten. This concludes that all the other 99 eggs are rotten or there would have been possibility of picking two fresh eggs as well.

#237 - Deduce Password Puzzle

In a secret society, a buried chamber can be accessed only via a secret password. The password is seven characters long and comprises of just letters and numbers.

You find a code that can help you in cracking the password. The code says "You force heaven to be empty".

Can you deduce the password from that?

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The code can be decrypted to sound as "U four seven two B M T".
The code is U472BMT.

#238 - Cards Puzzle

A man has four playing cards in random order in his hand ( 6 7 8 and 9)

He desires them placed in ascending order from his left to his right.

* To do this, he pulls the left card (from your perspective) and puts it end.
* He then takes the third card from the right (from your perspective) and puts it in end.

Can you guess the original order of the cards ?

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6 8 9 7 (user perspective)
7 9 8 6 (from his perspective)

Detail:

From user perspective:
6 8 9 7 => 8 9 7 6 => 9 8 7 6

For his perspective
6 7 8 9 (ascending order as desired)

#239 - How Many Balls Problem

In the drawer beside your bed, you have three orange, two pink and five purple balls. There is no electricity and the room is completely dark. How many balls you must take out to make sure you have one ball of each color at least.

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9

2 < 3 < 5
To find out the required number of balls, take one in place of the least number (i.e. take one pink ball) and then add all the greater numbers (i.e. three orange and five purple balls) to it.

Required number of balls = 1 + 3 + 5 = 9.

#240 - Equal Jars Water Riddle

You have 21 jars with you. Out of them, 7 are filled with water, 7 are half-full with water and 7 are empty. How will you distribute the jars among three people such that each one of them gets the equal number of jars and equal amount of water?

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Give 3 full, 1 half-full and 3 empty bottles to the first person.
Give 3 full, 1 half-full and 3 empty bottles to the second person.
Give 1 full, 5 half-full and 1 empty bottle to the third person.