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Riddles
Riddles
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 does each of them hold?
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:
is a lie I will hang you, if you say the truth I will slay you.
The jester thought a little and then said something to the king. And the king let him live!
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):
Lions can survive without eating the sheep or any other potential victim (ie, they are fed).
Question: Will the sheep survive?
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 wont take any of their life
by eating the sheep.
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, had 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.
. 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).