1. What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

2. My daughter has as many sisters as she has brothers. Each of her brothers has
twice as many sisters as brothers.
How many sons and daughters do I have?
3. You are a cook in a remote area with no clocks or other way of keeping time
other than a four-minute and a seven-minute hourglass. On the stove is a pot of
boiling water. Jill asks you to cook a nine-minute egg in exactly 9 minutes, and
you know she is a perfectionist and can tell if you under cook or overcook the
egg by even a few seconds. How can you cook the egg for exactly 9 minutes?
4. An Arab sheikh tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see
who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win. The
brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advise. After
hearing the advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the
city. What does the wise man say?
5. Toms mother has three children. One is named April, one is named May. What
is the third one named?
6. Mr. X has gone to Temple A, B, C & D. These temples are having magic pond in
each. It will double the thing, whatever you have in your hand, when you come
out of the pond. (e.g. if you have Rs.1/- in your hand, and when you come of
pond, you will have Rs.2/- in your hand)
Mr. X is having certain number of flowers. The terms and conditions of this
temples / ponds is that you have to surrender equal number of flowers to each
temple and when you come out of Temple D, no flower should be in your hand.
Please find out how many flowers Mr. X was having with him when he entered
into Temple A and how much flowers has he surrendered at each temple.
7. A prisoner is told, If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we
will shoot you.
What can he say to save himself?
8. A team of friends has a concert that starts in 17 minutes and they must all
cross a bridge to get there. All four men begin on the same side of the bridge.
You must help them across to the other side. It is night. There is one flashlight.
A maximum of two people can cross at one time. Any party who crosses, either
1 or 2 people, must have the flashlight with them. The flashlight must be
walked back and forth. It cannot be thrown and other tricks like that are not
needed to solve the problem. The solution is simply a matter of allocating
resources in a certain order. Each band member walks at a different speed. A
pair must walk together at the rate of the slower mans pace:
Bono: 1 minute to cross
Edge: 2 minutes to cross

Adam: 5 minutes to cross

Larry: 10 minutes to cross
For example: if Bono and Larry walk across first, 10 minutes have elapsed when
they get to the other side of the bridge. If Larry then returns with the
flashlight, a total of 20 minutes have passed and you have failed the mission.
9. A man is traveling with a fox and two chickens, if he leaves the fox alone with
the chickens the fox will eat the chickens. He comes to a river and needs to
cross it, he finds a small boat that can carry only him and one animal, how
does he get himself, the fox and two chickens across the river safely?
10. A man is looking at a picture of a man on the wall and states, Brothers and
sisters I have none, but this mans father is my fathers son.
Who is the man in the picture in relation to the man looking at the picture?

Answers
1. Mailbox
2. Four daughters and three sons. Each daughter has 3 sisters and 3 brothers, and
each brother has 2 brothers and 4 sisters.
3.
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iv.

Flip both hourglasses over and drop the egg into the water.
When the 4-minute timer runs out, flip it over (4 minutes elapsed, 3
remaining on the 7-minute timer).
When the 7-minute timer runs out, flip it over. (7 minutes elapsed, 1
remaining in the 4-minute timer)
When the 4-minute timer runs out, flip the 7-minute timer over. (8
minutes elapsed. 6 minutes remained in the 7-minute timer, but flipping
it over leaves one minutes worth of sand on top. When it runs out
exactly nine minutes will have elapsed.)

4. The wise man tells them to switch camels.

Each son owns a camel, lets call them Camel A and Camel B. If Camel A is
slower, son A gets the fortune. If Camel B is slower, son B gets the fortune.
Neither of the sons wants to enter the city first because they wont get the
fortune. When they switch camels, son A is now riding his brothers camel
(camel B) and son B is riding his brothers camel (camel A). Now, they each
want the camel theyre riding to get to the city first. If son A wins the race on
camel B, that means his camel, camel B, was slower and he wins the fortune.
The same is true for the other way around if the second son wins the race on
camel A.

5. Tom
6. Mr. X has taken 15 flowers with him to Temple A Taken dip in the Pond A and got 30 flowers - Offered first Temple 16 Flowers
Remaining flowers is 14, and taken dip in the Pond B - got 28 flowers
Offered Temple B - 16 flowers and remaining flowers with him is 12
Entered into Temple C - Taken dip in the pond - got 24 flowers
Offered 16 flowers and remaining flowers with him is 8
Entered into Temple D - Taken dip in the pond - got 16 flowers,
Offered 16 flowers and no flowers remaining with him at the end.
7. You will hang me. If they hang him, then the statement was true and they
could only hang him for telling a lie. If they shoot him, then it makes the
statement a lie and they were only to shoot him for telling the truth. An
alternate solution is to say, You will not shoot me, leading to the same
quandary for the killers.
8.
9. Take the fox over, return with nothing. Go over with one chicken, return with
the fox. Go over with the second chicken, return with nothing. Finally, take the
fox over.
10. The man in the picture is his son. Since he doesnt have any brothers or sisters,
the statement my fathers son is himself. A shortened version would be this
mans father is myself, so he is the father of the man in the picture.