Dr. Fry wants to operate for three different persons who were wounded in an accident.
But he had only two pair of surgical gloves. There should not be any blood contact between the three wounded persons.
How can Dr. Fry operate for the three people with two pair of surgical gloves?
Santa distributes 2 gifts to every child in the street at the Christmas evening. He mistakenly gives 4 gifts to some children. If he distributed 50 gifts to 21 children.
There is a silver pot and a golden pot. One of these pots contains a treasure and the other one is empty.
Both of them have a label containing hints. Assume that you can determine from the labels which pot contains the treasure.
The labels on the pots are the following: The silver pot: “This pot is empty.” The golden pot: “Exactly one of these texts is true.”
A very famous chemist was found murdered in his kitchen today. The police have narrowed it down to six suspects. They know it was a two man job. Their names: Felice, Maxwell, Archibald, Nicolas, Jordan, and Xavier.
A note was also found with the body: ‘26-3-58/28-27-57-16‘.
A man walking home takes a shortcut through a train tunnel. A quarter of the way in, he hears a train whistle behind him.
The tunnel is not wide enough for the man to escape being hit by the train, so he must either turn back, or go forward, at his top speed of 20 mph. Either way he will escape, but by the slimmest of margins.
A young lady was approached by an elderly woman who took her hand and meeting her eyes said to her, “You look starkly similar of my daughter. I lost her last month. I loved her a lot. Can you do me a favor? Can you say ‘Goodbye mother‘ as I leave this restaurant. I will feel good if you do.”
The young lady was puzzled but seeking her kind eyes, she agreed. As the elderly woman was leaving the restaurant, she said, “Goodbye mother” waving her hand toward her with a kind expression on her face.
Soon after, she got shocked. Can you guess what it was?
I went out to Amsterdam this summer. I spent the entire day there asking the same question to everyone I came across. Though I met around 7700 people from 23 different countries, everybody had a different answer to the same question.
We are given 100 pieces of a puzzle.
If fixing two components together is counted as 1 move ( a component can be one piece or an already fixed set of pieces),
How many moves do we need to fix the entire puzzle?