As shown in the matchstick arrangement below, group of matchstick is making an arrow and pointing from left to right. By moving just three matchsticks, can you make the arrow point from right to left?
A man is found dead in a phone booth in a pool of blood. The glass on either end of the phone booth is broken and the phone is hanging. Just outside of the phone booth is a bucket and a stick.
Place three piles of cards on a table, one with 11 cards, the second with 7, and the third with 6.
You are to move the cards so that each pile holds 8 cards. You may add to any pile only as many cards as it already contains. All the cards must come from one other pile. You have only three moves. For example, if a pile holds 6 cards, you may add 6 to it, no more or less.
There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world.The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.
When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: ‘What is risk?’.
Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
One day Alice meets the Lion and the Unicorn in the Forest of Forgetfulness. She knows that the Lion lies on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. The Unicorn, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week.
Now they make the following statements to Alice: Lion: Yesterday was one of my lying days. Unicorn: Yesterday was one of my lying days too.
I organized a small get together at my home. In the party, i have a barrel with some whiskey in it.
Suddenly, Guest 1 say ‘I bet this barrel of whiskey is more than half full’. Guest 2 replied ‘No, its less than half full’.
I don’t have any measuring instrument and without removing whiskey from it, how can i determine which of the guest is right ?