puzzles and riddles

Riddle A mighty ship I now command With cargo rare from every land No goods have I to trade or sell Each wind will serve my turn as well To neither port nor harbor bound My greatest wish to run aground. Who am I? solution A man and his egg. A man has an egg for breakfast every morning. He doesn't buy them, he doesn't steal them, he doesn't have them given to him, he doesn't find them, he doesn't keep chickens, he doesn't stay somewhere like a hotel or lodging where they are served; so how does he get his egg for breakfast every morning? solution Burning Rope A rope burns non-uniformly for exactly one hour. How do you measure 45 minutes, given two such ropes?solution Logic Puzzle A boy and a girl are sitting on the porch. "I'm a boy," says the child with black hair. "I'm a girl," says the child with red hair. If at least one of them is lying, who is which? solution The Damaged Engine by Henry Ernest Dudeney We were going by train from Anglechester to Clinkerton, but an hour after starting an accident happened to the engine. We had to continue the journey at three-fifths of the former speed. It made us two hours late at Clinkerton, and the driver said that if only the accident had happened fifty miles farther on the train would have arrived forty minutes sooner. Can you tell from that statement just how far it is from Anglechester to Clinkerton?solution A Riddle "The beginning of eternity The end of time and space The beginning of every end, And the end of every place." What am I? solution The Caterpillar In a place where there is exactly 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night there lives a caterpillar who climbs in the day and rests at night.He comes to a vertical wall at the start of a day. The wall is 48 feet high and he climbs it at a speed of 1 foot per hour. When night comes he sleeps but unfortunately while he sleeps he slips down the wall at a speed of half a foot per hour. How long will it take him to reach the top of the wall? solution 6 Apples? There were six apples in a basket and six girls in a room. Each girl took one apple, yet one apple remained in the basket. How is that possible?solution Sharing> How can I cut a traditional circular christmas cake into eight equal pieces with just three cuts?solution The Donkey and the Carrots A donkey is tied to a rope 3 metres long but there is a field of carrots 5 metres from the donkey. How does the donkey get to the carrots? solution Another Riddle Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I? solution The Grandfather Clock It takes a grandfather clock 30 seconds to strike 6 times. How many seconds does it take the same grandfather clock to strike 12 times? solution The Three Switches In the basement there are 3 light switches in the "off position". Each switch controls 1 of 3 light bulbs on the floor above. You may move any of the switches but you may only go up stairs one time. How can you determine which switch controls each light bulb?solution RiddleMeRee What can run but never walks Has a mouth but never talks Has a head but never weeps Has a bed but never sleeps?solution RiddleMeRee There is a thing that nothing is And yet it has a name It's sometimes tall and sometimes short Joins our talks and joins our sports And plays at every game What is it?solution The Train Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge and jump off the track just as the train is about to run you down. However, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. Now if you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving? solution Price of a Turkey? I received an invoice for a consignment of 72 turkeys, but unfortunately it was smudged and a couple of digits were unreadable. All I could read was '-67.9-', with the first and last figures illegible. Nevertheless, I was able to work out the price of a turkey immediately. What was the price of one turkey and what were the missing two digits? solution The Ceremonial Sword. A Japanese gentleman wishes to carry a straight ceremonial Sword to a friends house by bus. However, the law forbids carrying anything longer than 36 inches on a bus. The sword measures 42 inches! How can he accomplish this? He is an honorable person and cannot break the law. The sword cannot be distorted or dismantled in any way and the man cannot swallow it or conceal it on his person. In fact it must remain in his possession at all times. solution

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