Mystery to make it work. The most difficult riddles in the world

If you can't solve the riddles that will be discussed further, it will not be an indicator of low intelligence. Most likely, you are simply inattentive. Answers will be given at the very end.

Riddle one

There was an earthquake in the city. It destroyed many buildings, so there is no electricity everywhere, no cars drive, no water. Right before the incident, a man was locked in the house. He needs to get out through one of four doors:

the first door is littered with stones and building debris from the outside;
for the second - poisonous snakes, whose bites are deadly;
behind the third door, electric saws are waiting for a man, through which it is impossible, because they will immediately cut him;
behind the fourth door is poisonous smoke, which leads to irreparable consequences and severe poisoning.

You need to choose a door that will allow you to get out of the house and stay alive. The answer must be given within 5-10 seconds after voicing the riddle.

Riddle two

The prison is about to escape. The guards have intercepted a coded message from the prisoners but cannot decipher it. Try to help them. You will only have 20 seconds.

GENPO
AOB
GENEG
HZSCHSEG
DGNSHOD
RPRONYA.

Riddle three

Help the detective solve the mystery of the serial killer. The perpetrator sits at the same table as the victim. In front of them are two glasses of water and two pills. The victim can choose any pill, and the offender eats the second one. Absolutely every time the perpetrator survives, and his victim dies. Question: why and how does this happen? You have 10 seconds to think.

Answers to riddles

First riddle: to understand which door to open, you need to carefully listen to the introduction, the beginning of the story. There was an earthquake, so the electricity in the city is turned off. This means that the electric saws behind the third door simply do not work, so this is the only way to freedom. The task is simple, which is why so little time is given for it.

Second riddle: Here the answer lies at the end of each of the lines.

GENE BY
JSC B
GENE EG
HZShch NEG
DGNSH OD
RPRO AE.

Third riddle: there is not so much time for an answer, but it immediately becomes clear that the matter is not in pills, but in water. The victim has a glass of poisoned water, and both pills are harmless.

There are three proven reasons why you shouldn't stop learning. The fact that schoolchildren can solve such puzzles better does not mean that they are smarter: it’s just that their brain works faster and more efficiently, and their attentiveness is on a different level. This happens because children go to school and are constantly learning, and adults, for the most part, lose their thirst for knowledge. Share in the comments which puzzles you managed to solve and which didn't, and don't forget to press the buttons and

September 16th, 2017

We all know the feeling of satisfaction that you experience after you solve a difficult problem. While intelligent jokes can be understood in a matter of seconds, riddles take longer to solve, making pleasure a lot more. Here,one of the most complex logical problems that are not so easy to solveb. Test yourself, do you have the necessary wit to solve these riddles.

Answers to riddles and explanations you will findunder the image. However, do not rush to see the answer and try to think aboutdecision.

Riddle 1

Answer 1:

Secret

Riddle 2

You are trying to get out of the maze and there are three doors in front of you.

The door on the left leads to hell. The door in the center leads to a deadly assassin. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn't eaten in three months.

Which door will you choose?

Answer 2:

Door on the right

The lion will be dead if not fed for 3 months.

Riddle 3

An old man dies, leaving two sons. In his will, he asks his sons to arrange horse races, and the one whose horse is slower will receive the inheritance.

The two sons are racing, but as both are trying to hold back the horses, they turn to the sage and ask for his advice.

After that, the brothers start racing again, but this time at full speed. What advice did the sage give them?

Answer 3:

Change horses.

If they switch horses, then whoever wins the race will inherit, since he owns the losing horse.

Riddle 4

Turn me on my side and I'll be everything. Cut me in half and I'll be nothing. What am I?

Answer 4:

If you turn 8 on its side, it looks like an infinity sign. If you cut it in half, the number 8 will turn into two zeros.

Riddle 5

A farmer needs to transport a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain across a river. The only way across the river is in a small boat, on which a peasant and one of the three (a fox, a chicken, or a sack) fit.

If left unattended, the chicken will eat the grain and the fox will eat the chicken. However, the fox will not try to eat the grain, and the fox and the chicken will not run away. How will the peasant transport everyone across the river?

Answer 5:

The farmer needs to do the following:

· Carry the chicken across the river.

· Return with an empty boat, take the grain and transport it across the river.

· Take the chicken and transport it back.

· Take the fox and transport it across the river.

· Return with an empty boat and transport the chicken back across the river.

Riddle 6

You have a 7 minute hourglass and an 11 minute hourglass. How do you boil an egg in exactly 15 minutes?

Answer 6:

To boil an egg in exactly 15 minutes, you need to do the following:

· Turn over all the hourglasses when you start to boil the egg.

· After the 7-minute clock runs out, you need to start it again.

· After 4 minutes, when the time on the 11-minute hourglass runs out, you need to turn the 7-minute hourglass over again.

· Wait until the 7-minute hourglass runs out, which will take 4 minutes to boil an egg in 15 minutes.

Riddle 7

You are walking down the road and come across a fork in the road. One path leads to certain death, and the other to eternal happiness, but you do not know which one.

One brother tells the truth all the time and the other lies all the time. You can only ask them one question. How do you decide which road to take?

Answer 7:

Ask each brother, "If you were your brother, how would you say which way would lead to eternal happiness?"

Let us assume that the road to the right leads to eternal happiness. After you ask the question, both brothers will give you the same answer: "He would say that the left road will lead to eternal happiness."

· In any case, you will choose the opposite of what they said, as one is telling the truth about it being a lie and the other one is lying about it being the truth.

8. What number will be next in this series: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ...

Answer 8:

13112221

· Each sequence of numbers is a verbal representation of the sequence that comes before it. So, for example, starting from one, the next sequence would be "one 1" or "11". It will be followed by the sequence "two 1" or "21" and so on.

· The first digit is 1 (amount) "1" (number from 0 to 9). So if you say "One 1", the next number will be "11". Now it turned out "two 1" or "21". After that "one 2 and one 1", which gives us 1211. Then "one 1, one 2 and two 1", which gives us 111221 and so on.

Riddle 9

Four people approached a river with a narrow bridge that only 2 people can walk over at a time. It's night outside, they only have one flashlight to use when crossing the bridge.

Person A can cross the bridge in 1 minute, person B in 2 minutes, person C in 5 minutes, and person D in 8 minutes.

When two people cross a bridge together, they must pass at the speed of the one who is slower. Can they cross the bridge in 15 minutes or less?

Answer 9:

They will cross the bridge in exactly 15 minutes.

A group of 4 people must do the following:

· First A and B will cross the bridge and A will bring back the flashlight. This will take 3 minutes.

· Then, C and D will move on and B will bring back the flashlight. This will take another 10 minutes.

Finally, A and B will cross the bridge again. This will take another 2 minutes.

Riddle 10

During the last census, the man said he had three children. When asked about their ages, he replied that the product of their ages is the number 72.

The sum of their ages is the same as the house number. The census taker looks at the front door for the house number and says he still doesn't know.

The man replies: "I forgot to say that the eldest son likes chocolate pudding." After that, copyist records the ages of three children. How old are the children?

Answer 10:

three children aged 3, 3 and 8.

When a man looked at the house number, he knew the sum of the ages of the children. However, he could not tell the age of the children. So he had several options. Only two variants of a set of numbers when multiplied give 72: (2,6,6) and (3,3,8).

After the man said that the eldest son likes chocolate pudding, the man was able to make a choice. Since it is in the second version that the eldest son can be called.

Riddle 11

You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, what will you light first?

Answer 11:

match

Riddle 12

You have five bags of gold that look the same, each containing 10 bars.

One of the bags contains fake gold. The only difference between the two is that each piece of fake gold weighs 1.1 grams, while the real bar weighs 1 gram.

You have an accurate digital scale that you can only use once. How do you tell which bag is fake gold?

Answer 12:

Take 1 ingot from the first bag, 2 from the second, 3 from the third, 4 from the fourth, 5 from the fifth. If the weight ends in,1, then the fake gold is in the first bag. If the weight ends in -2, the fake gold is in the second bag, and so on.

There is a rich house and a poor one. They are on fire. Which house will the police put out?

Police do not put out fires, firefighters put out fires

How can a person not sleep for 8 days?

Sleep at night

You enter a dark kitchen. It contains a candle, a kerosene lamp and a gas stove. What will you light first?

A girl is sitting, and you cannot sit in her place, even if she gets up and leaves. Where is she sitting?

She sits on your lap

You are standing in front of three switches. Behind an opaque wall are three light bulbs in the off state. You need to manipulate the switches, go into the room and determine which light bulb each switch belongs to.

First you need to turn on two switches. After a while one of them will turn off. Enter the room. One bulb will be hot from the switch on, the second - warm from the off, the third - cold, from the untouched switch

It is known that among the nine coins there is one counterfeit, which has less weight than the rest of the coins. How to determine a counterfeit coin using a weighing pan in two weighings?

1st weighing: 3 and 3 coins. The counterfeit coin is in the pile that weighs the least. If they are equal, then the fake is in the third pile. 2nd weighing: Any 2 coins from the pile with the lowest weight are compared. If they are equal, then the fake is the remaining coin.

Two people approach the river. Near the shore is a boat that can only support one. Both men crossed to the opposite bank. How?

They were on different shores

Two fathers, two sons found three oranges and divided them. Each got a whole orange. How can this be?

The dog was tied to a ten-meter rope, and walked 300 meters. How did she do it?

The rope was not tied to anything.

How can a thrown egg fly three meters and not break?

You need to throw an egg four meters, then the first three meters it will fly by

The man was driving a large truck. The lights on the car were not on. There was also no moon. The woman began to cross the road in front of the car. How did the driver manage to see her?

It was a bright sunny day

If five cats catch five mice in five minutes, how long does it take for one cat to catch one mouse?

Five minutes

Can you light a match underwater?

You can, if you pour water into some kind of container, for example, into a glass, and keep the match below the glass

The boat is rocking on the water. A ladder was thrown out from it along the side. Before high tide, water covered only the bottom step. How long will it take for the water to cover the 3rd step from the bottom, if at high tide the water rises by 20 cm per hour, and the distance between the steps is 30 cm?

Never, as the boat rises with the water

How to divide five apples among five girls so that each girl gets an apple and at the same time one of the apples remains in the basket?

Give one girl an apple with a basket

One and a half pike perch cost one and a half rubles. How much are 13 zanders worth?

Merchants and potters. In one city, all the people were merchants or potters. Merchants have always told lies, and potters have always told the truth. When all the people gathered in the square, each of those gathered said to the others: “You are all merchants!” How many potters were there in this city?

The potter was alone, because:

If there were no potters, then the merchants would have to tell the truth that all other merchants, and this contradicts the condition of the problem.
If there were more than one potter, then each potter would have to lie that the rest were merchants.

There are two coins on the table, in total they give 3 rubles. One of them is not 1 ruble. What are these coins?

1 and 2 rubles

The satellite makes one revolution around the Earth in 1 hour 40 minutes, and the other in 100 minutes. How can it be?

100 minutes is 1 hour 40 minutes

As you know, all Russian female names end either in the letter “a” or in the letter “ya”: Anna, Maria, Irina, Natalya, Olga, etc. However, there is one single female name that ends in a different letter. Name it.

What has no length, depth, width, height, but can be measured?

Time, temperature

If it rains at 12 o'clock at night, can we expect that in 72 hours it will be sunny?

No, because in 72 hours it will be night

Seven brothers have a sister. How many sisters are there?

One yacht goes from Nice to San Remo, the other from San Remo to Nice. They left the harbors at the same time. The first hour of the yacht's movement went at the same speed (60 km/h), but then the first yacht increased its speed to 80 km/h. Which of the yachts will be closer to Nice at the time of their meeting?

At the time of their meeting, they will be at the same distance from Nice

A woman was walking to Moscow, and three men were walking towards her. Everyone has a bag, in each bag there is a cat. How many creatures were sent to Moscow?

Only the woman went to Moscow, the rest went the other way

There were 10 birds perched on a tree. A hunter came and shot one bird. How many birds are left on the tree?

None - the rest of the birds flew away

The train runs from east to west, and the wind blows from north to south. In which direction is the smoke coming from the chimney?

You are running a marathon and you overtook the second runner. What is your current position?

Second. If you answered that you are now first, then this is wrong: you overtook the second runner and took his place, so you are now in second position

You are running a marathon and you overtook the last runner. What is your current position?

If you answered that the penultimate one, you were mistaken again :). Think about how you can overtake the last runner? If you run after him, then he is not the last. The correct answer is it's impossible, you can't overtake the last runner

There were three cucumbers and four apples on the table. The child took one apple from the table. How many fruits are left on the table?

3 fruits and cucumbers are vegetables

The product first rose in price by 10%, and then fell in price by 10%. What is its value now relative to the original?

99%: after a rise in price, 10% was added to 100% - it turned out to be 110%; 10% of 110% = 11%; then subtract 11% from 110% and get 99%

How many times does the number 4 appear in integers from 1 to 50?

15 times: 4, 14, 24, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 - twice, 45, 46. 47, 48, 49

You drove the car two thirds of the way. At the beginning of the journey, the gas tank of the car was full, and now it is one-quarter full. Will there be enough gasoline until the end of the journey (at a similar consumption)?

No, since 1/4< 1/3

Mary's father has 5 daughters: Chacha, Cheche, Chichi, Chocho. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

A deaf and dumb man went into an office supply store to buy a pencil sharpener. He stuck his finger in his left ear and with the fist of his other hand made rotary motion near your right ear. The seller immediately understood what he was being asked for. Then a blind man entered the same store. How did he explain to the salesperson that he wanted to buy scissors?

Just said he's blind but not dumb

A rooster flew to the border of Russia and China. He sat right on the border, absolutely in the middle. Took an egg. It fell exactly across: the border divides it in the middle. What country does the egg belong to?

Roosters don't lay eggs!

One morning, a soldier who had previously been on night guard approached the centurion and said that that night he had dreamed that the barbarians would attack the fortress that evening from the north. The centurion did not really believe in this dream, but nevertheless he took measures. That same evening, the barbarians really attacked the fortress, but thanks to the measures taken, their attack was repulsed. After the battle, the centurion thanked the soldier for the warning and then ordered him to be taken into custody. Why?

For sleeping on duty

There are ten fingers on the hands. How many fingers are on ten hands?

The plane with English tourists flew from Holland to Spain. It crashed in France. Where should the surviving (injured) tourists be buried?

The survivors do not need to be buried! :)

You drove a bus with 42 passengers from Boston to Washington. At each of the six stops, 3 people got out of it, and at every second - four. What was the name of the driver when the driver arrived in Washington 10 hours later?

How about you, because in the beginning it was said that You drove the bus

What can you find in minutes, seconds and days, but not in years, decades and centuries?

How many times can 3 be subtracted from 25?

Once, because after the first subtraction, the number "25" will change to "22"

All of Mrs. Taylor's bungalows are finished in pink with pink lamps, pink walls, pink carpets and a pink ceiling. What color are the stairs in this bungalow?

There are no stairs in the bungalow

In the ancient castle where the prison was located, there were 4 round towers in which prisoners were imprisoned. One of the prisoners decided to escape. And then one day he hid in a corner, and when a guard came in, he stunned him with a blow to the head, and he ran away, changing into other clothes. Could this be?

No, because the towers were round and there were no corners

The 12-storey building has an elevator. Only 2 people live on the ground floor, from floor to floor the number of residents doubles. Which button in the elevator of this house is pressed more often than others?

Regardless of the distribution of residents by floors - button "1"

A pair of horses ran 20 kilometers. Question: how many kilometers did each horse run individually?

20 kilometers

What can stand and walk, hang and stand, walk and lie down at the same time?

Is it possible to predict the score football match before it starts, and if so, how?

The score of any match before it starts is always 0:0

What in a person can increase in diameter by 7 times in a few seconds?

Pupil. When moving from bright light to dark, the diameter can change from 1.1 to 8 mm; everything else either almost does not increase, or increases in diameter by no more than 2-3 times

A seller in the market sells a hat that costs 10 rubles. A buyer comes up and wants to buy it, but he has only 25 rubles. The seller sends the boy with these 25 rubles. exchange for a neighbor. The boy comes running and gives 10 + 10 + 5 rubles. The seller gives a hat and change of 15 rubles, and 10 rubles. leaves to himself. After a while, a neighbor comes and says that 25 rubles. fake, demands to give her money. The seller returns her money. How much money was deceived by the seller?

The seller was deceived by fake 25 rubles.

How many animals did Moses take on his ark?

Animals were taken to the ark not by Moses, but by Noah

2 people walked in at the same time. One has an apartment on the 3rd floor, the other has an apartment on the 9th. How many times will the first person get there faster than the second? Note: they simultaneously pressed the buttons in 2 elevators moving at the same speed.

Usual answer: 3 times. Correct answer: 4 times. Elevators usually go from the 1st floor. The first one will pass 3-1=2 floors, and the second one 9-1=8 floors, i.e. 4 times more

This riddle is often offered to children. But sometimes adults can rack their brains for a long time to guess how to solve such a problem, so you can arrange a competition: invite everyone to try to solve the problem. Whoever guesses, regardless of age, deserves a prize. Here is the task:

6589 = 4; 5893 = 3; 1236 = 1; 1234 = 0; 0000 = 4; 5794 = 1; 1111 = 0; 4444 = 0; 7268 = 3; 1679 = 2; 3697 = 2

2793 = 1; 4895 = 3

The main thing is to look at the problem in a childish way, then you will understand that the answer is 3 (three circles in the numbers)

Two jigits competed: whose horse will come to the finish line last. However, things did not go well, both stood still. Then they turned to the sage for advice, and after that both galloped at full speed.

The sage advised the jigits to exchange horses

One student tells another: “Yesterday basketball team of our college won the basketball game with a score of 76:40. At the same time, not a single basketball player scored a single ball in this match.

Women's teams played

A man enters a store, buys sausage and asks to cut it, but not across, but along. The saleswoman asks: "Are you a fireman?" - "Yes". How did she guess?

The man was in uniform

The lady did not have a driver's license with her. She did not stop at the railroad crossing even though the barrier was lowered, then, ignoring the "brick", she moved along the one-way street against the traffic and stopped only after passing three blocks. All this happened in front of the traffic police officer, who for some reason did not consider it necessary to intervene.

The lady was walking

There were three tailor shops on one Odessa street. The first tailor advertised himself like this: “The best workshop in Odessa!” The second - "The best workshop in the world!" The third "surpassed" them both.

“The best workshop on this street!”

The two brothers were drinking at a bar. Suddenly, one of them began to argue with the bartender, and then he pulled out a knife and, ignoring his brother's attempts to stop him, hit the bartender. At his trial, he was found guilty of murder. At the end of the trial, the judge said: "You are found guilty of murder, but I have no choice but to let you go." Why did the judge have to do this?

The culprit was one of the Siamese twins. A judge couldn't send a guilty person to jail without putting an innocent one in there too.

Baba Yaga, the Serpent Gorynych, the stupid ensign and the smart ensign were traveling in the same compartment. There was a bottle of beer on the table. The train entered the tunnel, it became dark. When the train left the tunnel, the bottle was empty. Who drank beer?

The stupid ensign drank the beer, since the rest of the creatures are unreal and do not occur in life!)

Incredible Facts

We all know the feeling of satisfaction that you experience after you solve a difficult problem.

While intelligent jokes can be understood in a matter of seconds, riddles take longer to solve, making much more fun.

Here , one of the most complex logical problems that are not so easy to solveb.

Read also:

Check yourself do you have the necessary wit to solve these riddles.

Answers to riddles and explanations you will findunder the image. However, do not rush to see the answer and try to think about decision .

Riddles with answers

Riddle 1

Answer 1:

Secret

Riddle 2

You are trying to get out of the maze and there are three doors in front of you.

The door on the left leads to hell. The door in the center leads to a deadly assassin. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn't eaten in three months.

Which door will you choose?

Answer 2:

Door on the right

The lion will be dead if not fed for 3 months.

Riddle 3

An old man dies, leaving two sons. In his will, he asks his sons to arrange horse races, and the one whose horse is slower will receive the inheritance.

The two sons are racing, but as both are trying to hold back the horses, they turn to the sage and ask for his advice.

After that, the brothers start racing again, but this time at full speed. What advice did the sage give them?

Answer 3:

Change horses.

If they switch horses, then whoever wins the race will inherit, since he owns the losing horse.

Riddles for logic

Riddle 4

Turn me on my side and I'll be everything. Cut me in half and I'll be nothing. What am I?

Answer 4:8

If you turn 8 on its side, it looks like an infinity sign. If you cut it in half, the number 8 will turn into two zeros.

Riddle 5

Answer 5:

...

The farmer needs to do the following:

· Carry the chicken across the river.

· Return with an empty boat, take the grain and transport it across the river.

· Take the chicken and transport it back.

· Take the fox and transport it across the river.

· Return with an empty boat and transport the chicken back across the river.

Riddle 6

You have a 7 minute hourglass and an 11 minute hourglass. How do you boil an egg in exactly 15 minutes?

Answer 6:

To boil an egg in exactly 15 minutes, you need to do the following:

· Turn over all the hourglasses when you start to boil the egg.

· After the 7-minute clock runs out, you need to start it again.

· After 4 minutes, when the time on the 11-minute hourglass runs out, you need to turn the 7-minute hourglass over again.

· Wait until the 7-minute hourglass runs out, which will take 4 minutes to boil an egg in 15 minutes.

Riddle 7

You are walking down the road and come across a fork in the road. One path leads to certain death, and the other to eternal happiness, but you do not know which one.

One brother tells the truth all the time and the other lies all the time. You can only ask them one question. How do you decide which road to take?

Answer 7:

Ask each brother, "If you were your brother, how would you say which way would lead to eternal happiness?"

· In any case, you will choose the opposite of what they said, as one is telling the truth about it being a lie and the other one is lying about it being the truth.

Logic riddles

8. What number will be next in this series: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ...

Answer 8:

13112221

Riddle 9

Four people approached a river with a narrow bridge that only 2 people can walk over at a time. It's night outside, they only have one flashlight to use when crossing the bridge.

Person A can cross the bridge in 1 minute, person B in 2 minutes, person C in 5 minutes, and person D in 8 minutes.

When two people cross a bridge together, they must pass at the speed of the one who is slower. Can they cross the bridge in 15 minutes or less?

Answer 9:

They will cross the bridge in exactly 15 minutes.

A group of 4 people must do the following:

· First A and B will cross the bridge and A will bring back the flashlight. This will take 3 minutes.

· Then, C and D will move on and B will bring back the flashlight. This will take another 10 minutes.

Finally, A and B will cross the bridge again. This will take another 2 minutes.

Riddle 10

During the last census, the man said he had three children. When asked about their ages, he replied that the product of their ages is the number 72.

The sum of their ages is the same as the house number. The census taker looks at the front door for the house number and says he still doesn't know.

The man replies: "I forgot to say that the eldest son likes chocolate pudding." After that, copyist records the ages of three children. How old are the children?

Answer 10:

three children aged 3, 3 and 8.

After the man said that the eldest son likes chocolate pudding, the man was able to make a choice. Since it is in the second version that the eldest son can be called.

Riddle 11

You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp. You only have one match, what will you light first?

Answer 11:

match

Riddle 12

You have five bags of gold that look the same, each containing 10 bars.

One of the bags contains fake gold. The only difference between the two is that each piece of fake gold weighs 1.1 grams, while the real bar weighs 1 gram.

You have an accurate digital scale that you can only use once. How do you tell which bag is fake gold?

Answer 12:

A riddle is a metaphorical expression in which one object is expressed by means of another, which has some, even remote, similarity with it; on the basis of the latter, a person must guess the intended object.

In ancient times, a riddle was a means of testing wisdom, now it is a popular pastime. Riddles are found among all peoples, no matter what stage of development they are at. A proverb and a riddle differ in that the riddle must be guessed, and the proverb is a lesson. Material from Wikipedia. We bring to your attention the 15 most difficult riddles in the world. Along with this, we also give answers to immediately determine whether you are able to solve them.

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Two people approach the river. Near the shore is a boat that can only support one. Both men crossed to the opposite bank. How did they do it?
They were on different sides.
Vasily, Peter, Semyon and their wives Natalya, Irina, Anna have been together for 151 years. Every husband is 5 years older than his wife. Vasily is 1 year older than Irina. Natalya and Vasily together are 48 years old, Semyon and Natalya are together 52 years old. Who is married to whom, and how old is who?
Vasily (26) - Anna (21); Peter (27) - Natalia (22); Semyon (30) - Irina (25).
Do not write anything or use a calculator. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?
5000? Wrong. The correct answer is 4100. Try to recalculate on a calculator.
Jackdaws flew, sat on sticks. They sit down one by one - the jackdaw is superfluous, they sit two by two - the stick is superfluous. How many sticks were there and how many jackdaws were there?
Three sticks and four jackdaws.
Mr. Mark was found murdered in his office. The cause was a bullet wound to the head. Detective Robin, inspecting the scene of the murder, found a cassette recorder on the table. And when he turned it on, he heard the voice of Mr. Mark. He said, “This is Mark. Jones just called me and said that in ten minutes he would be here to shoot me. It's useless to run. I know this tape will help the police arrest Jones. I hear his footsteps on the stairs. Here the door opens... The assistant detective offered to arrest Jones on suspicion of murder. But the detective did not follow his assistant's advice. As it turned out, he was right. Jones wasn't the killer, as was said on the tape. Question: why did the detective have suspicions?
The cassette in the voice recorder was being revised at the start. Moreover, Jones would have taken the cassette.
Third-graders Alyosha and Misha go from school and talk:
“When the day after tomorrow becomes yesterday,” one of them said, “today will be as far from Sunday as the day that was today when the day before yesterday was tomorrow.” What day of the week did they speak?
On Sunday.
A hare and a cat together weigh 10 kg. Dog with a hare - 20 kg. Dog with a cat - 24 kg. How much in this case will weigh all the animals together: a hare, a cat and a dog?
27 kg. (solution .)
There was a stone on the seashore. A word of 8 letters was written on the stone. When the rich read this word, they wept, the poor rejoiced, and the lovers parted. What was that word?
Temporarily.
There is a prison, next to the hospital. Around them are rails, and on the rails a train moves around at high speed. One boy needs to go to his grandfather in prison, and one girl to her grandmother in the hospital. How can they do it if the train doesn't stop?
The boy needs to throw the girl under the train, then he will go to jail, and the girl to the hospital.
Which Russian word can be written from right to left, turned upside down, mirrored, and it still remains unchanged and does not lose its meaning?
It.
From which bird do you need to pluck feathers to get morning, afternoon, evening, night at once?
Day.
Teresa's daughter is my daughter's mother. Who am I to Teresa?
1. Grandmother.
2. Mother.
3. Daughter.
4. Granddaughter.
5. I am Teresa.
Write your choice in the comments.