All Puzzles

A boy presses a side of a blue pencil to a side of a yellow pencil, holding both pencils vertically. One inch of the pressed side of the blue pencil, measuring from its lower end, is smeared with paint. The yellow pencil is held steady while the boy slides the blue pencil down 1 inch, continuing to press it against the yellow one. He returns the blue pencil to its former position, then again it slides down 1 inch. He continues until he has lowered the blue pencil 5 times and raised it 5 times- 10 moves in all.

Supposed that during this time the paint neither dries nor diminishes in quantity. How many inches of each pencil will be snared with paint after the tenth move?

If it is 1,800 kilometres to America, 1,200 kilometres to Japan, 2,400 kilometres to New Zealand, and 1,400 kilometres to Brazil-

How far is Morocco ?

While playing with a metal ring, John accidentally pushed it on his finger too far and couldn’t get it off. Trying to remove it using soap and water didn’t work. The hospital sent him to a service station thinking they could cut the metal. Since the ring was made with a specially hardened steel, it couldn’t be cut. Just then Joju arrived on the scene and suggested an easy way to remove the ring in just a few minutes. What was his solution?

It is a surprise! It is a miracle!

It sprouted without a seed, It stood without a trunk. Think it with mind !

John walked into a hardware store and asked the price of some items. The salesman said: One costs $1, Eight costs $1, Seventeen cost $2, One hundred four costs $3 and One thousand seventy two costs $4. What was John buying ?

How many dogs are in a small room if in each of the four corners a dog is sitting, and opposite each dog there sit three dogs, and a each dog’s tail another is sitting ?