#331 - Classic Old Tricky Riddle
James named his first son Alpha, second Beta, third gamma and fourth Delta. What is the fifth son’s name.
What
#332 - Maths Shopkeeper Problem
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.
#333 - Infosys Trick Interview Riddle
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.
#334 - Indiana Jones Treasure Logic Puzzle
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.
#335 - Smart Trick Teaser
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.
#336 - Recognizing Adam Eve Logic Riddle
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.
#337 - Funniest Picture Riddle
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
#338 - Whats Smuggling Trick Riddle
Peter wakes up daily to pick his cycle and crosses the border between Spain and France daily with a bag on his shoulder. He is investigated daily by the officials but they don’t find anything suspicious.
If we tell you that he is smuggling something what would it be ?
Cycle
#339 - Smart Thief Statment Puzzle
A thief was presented in the court of a king. For a judgment, the king asked him to make any statement. If the statement was to be true, he would be burnt alive and if the statement was to be false, he would be thrown in the sea. But after hearing the statement, the king had to let him go.
What did the thief say ?
I will be thrown into the sea. Now if the king threw him in the sea, the statement will come as true and thus he will have to be burnt alive. But if the king burnt him, the statement will come out as false. Thus the king had no choice but to leave him.
#340 - Tricky Number Series Riddle
Analyze the series below and find out the next number.
5, 25, 325, 4325, __?
54324
Consider 1 = 5
2 = 25
3 = 325
4 = 4325
Then 5 = 54325
With every digit, the previous numbers are added after that digit
So the answer is 54325