Can you solve these interesting riddles? They are ranked according to the degree of difficulty.

Riddle 1: Shopping (**)

A married couple returns from shopping at the supermarket laden with bags. The man begins complaining to his wife that the bags are very heavy.

“Why are you complaining?” She says.

“If you give me one of your bags, I would have twice as many as you do, and if I give you one of mine, we would have the same number of bags.”

Question: How many bags is each of them holding?

Riddle 2: The Jester (***)

The king who was bored with his jester and was looking for an occasion to get rid of him, called him one day and said:

Say something, anything you want. If what you say is a lie, I will hang you; if you say the truth, I will slay you.

The jester did some thinking and then said something to the king. And the king let him live!

Question: What did he say?

Riddle 3: Sheep (*****)

There are 57 lions and 1 sheep in a relatively large cage. If a lion eats the sheep, then it gets sleepy and vulnerable to be attacked by another lion (i.e. it becomes somewhat pseudo-sheep and a potential victim).

Assume that if a lion kills its prey, it eats it alone (without sharing it with another lion). Also, assume that all lions are reasonable and know that all the other lions think logically too. Each lion wants to live first of all, and then if it can eat a victim, then it will. The priorities that are (from largest to smallest):

  1. To eat a potential victim and live
  2. Not to eat a prospective victim but live
  3. To eat a potential victim and die

Lions can survive without eating the sheep or any other potential victim (ie, they are fed).

Question: Will the sheep survive?

Riddle 4: The two twins (****)

Two twins appear in court. One of them always tells lies, while the other sometimes tells lies and sometimes the truth. One of the twins, John, committed a crime. We do not know if John was the one who always told lies.

The judge asked the first twin:

“Are you John?”

“Yes, I am,” he answered.

The judge asked the second twin:

“Are you John?”

He answered either “yes” or “no”, and the judge immediately found who John was.

Question: Was he the first or the second twin?


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This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. Turner

    Where can i find the answers?!?! I’ve lost too much sleep over this already

  2. Shubham

    1. Man is holding 5 bags and woman is holding 7 bags.

    2. Jester said “I am gonna be hanged”

    3. I think sheep will survive because it is mentioned in the question that lions think logically then they know that they are going to live because they will be fed so they won’t take any of their life by eating the sheep.

    4. 2nd is John ( 2nd guy is the one who tells lie and truth because he said either yes or no and it is sure that one of the statement is true means he always does not lie this means that the 1st guy is the one who always lies so he is lying that he is John means 2nd guy is john).

  3. manwick albert

    nice

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