Question: A man has nothing but as much roope as he requires to cross a canyon. There is nothing to fasten the rope to on either side and he is unable to absail or climb.
Answer: He fills the canyon with rope until he is simply able to walk over the rope to the other side.
Question: A man with no eyes went out to view the skies.
He came apon an apple tree with apples on it.
He nor took apples nor left apples.
How many apples were on the tree?
Answer: This riddle is actually just a play on singular and plural words. I will brek the riddle down by line
A man with no eyes went out to view the skies.
- He didn't have "eyes" (meaning more than one) but he could have had "an eye"
He came apon an apple tree with apples on it.
- There was more than one apple on it when he saw the tree
He nor took apples nor left apples.
- He didn't take more than one apple but he could have taken one apple, and he diddn't leave more than one applebut he could have left one apple
So therefore if he had left only one apple and he to one apple from the tree then there was only two apples on the original tree.
Question: You have 12 pills and they all got the same weight, except for one, which hasn't got the same weight. You don't know if it is heavier or easier. You have one scale to weight the pills. You now have to find out, which pill is the right one (the one with a different weight), but you can use the scale only three times. How do you know, which one is the right one?
Answer: E=easier in "1", H=heavier in "1".
1: Weight 4:4. If they balance go to "2", if they don't balance, go to "3".
2: Balance 1:1 of the pills you didn't weight yet. Then weight one you didn't weight and one you did weight. If they balanced in the first weighing, and balanced in the second weighing, the last pill is the right one. If they balanced in the first weighing and dind't balance in the second, the one you didn't use before is the right pill. If they didn't balance at all, it's the pill you weighed twice. If they didn't balance in the first weighing, but balanced in the second, it is the first pill.
3:Weight EHH:EHH. If they balance, weight one you already weighed, with an unweighed and go to "4". If they don't balance go to "5".
4: If they balance, the one you didn't weight at all is the right pill. If they don't balance, the one you only weighed once is the right one.
5: Give away every pill that was once easier AND once heavier. You should only have EHH left. Weight H:H. If they balance, E is the right one. If the don't balance, the one which was only heavier the whole time, is the right pill.
Question: A night shift guard, while on patrol at night, dreams that the king will die in a plane crash. He tells the king so in the morning, but the king tells him not to worry, and flies anyway. When he returns from his trip, he fires the night shift guard. Why does the king fire the night shift guard?
Answer: The night shift guard had a dream. Therefore, he was sleeping on the job.