Saturday Suspense


                                              
Puzzles and paradoxes push our mind to the limit. The suspense is always intriguing. We enjoy what happens next. Or answering the question that is steeped in mystery. Riddles make us rapturous. When our mind is challenged, we rise to the occasion. We think even if we don’t want to. Enigmas fascinate us. So to make the Saturday evening a little suspenseful, here are some brainteasers to make the grey cells go on an overdrive.

Sit back with a coffee and T H I N K.

Puzzle 1

Hana is a farmer’s wife with 8 children. While out picking fruit, she only managed to collect 5 fruits. Yet, she was able to share the fruit equally among all her children. How did she do this?

Puzzle 2

Why is the square of 111, 111, 111 so surprising?

Puzzle 3

When I’m going, it doesn’t mean I’m moving.

I can’t stop even though I don’t go anywhere.

I don’t have any arms but I do have hands.

What am I?

Puzzle 4

Without changing the order (from 1 to 10), insert an arithmetical symbol between each number so that the total adds up to 100.

Puzzle 5

Sunita has 7 children and a tin containing 7 biscuits. Each child wants a biscuit but they also want Sunita to leave 1 in the tin!

How can she satisfy her whimsical children?

Puzzle 6

Replace the letters A, B, C, D, and E with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 so that this calculation works

AB * C = DE

So, 6 puzzles to make you wonder, ponder, reflect, think, deliberate. If you get stuck with any one of them, tackle them in a different way. The answers are not hard to get if you only look in the right place.

-          NZ

1.6.2019

Comments

  1. Shakeel1 June 2019 at 08:18

    Nice riddles, all mind boggling

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  2. saiyid zaidi1 June 2019 at 09:24

    jameel is looking at jameela and jameela is looking at shafi.jameel is married but
    Shafi is not.Is a married person looking at an unmarried person.
    yes or no, or can not b determined. Answer it

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  3. saiyid zaidi1 June 2019 at 09:53

    give reasoning pls

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  4. NASIR ZAIDI1 June 2019 at 10:16

    If Jameela is married, she’s looking at Shafi, who is unmarried. If Jameela is unmarried, Jameel is looking at her, who is married. So whatever is the situation, a married person is looking at an unmarried person.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Unknown1 June 2019 at 20:00

    Mind boggling, lot of effort Now

    ReplyDelete

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