The Three Minute Timer Riddle
You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer can you boil the egg for only two minutes?
Hint:
Once the water is boiling, turn the three-minute timer and five-minute timer over. When the three-minute timer runs out, put the egg in the boiling water. When the five-minute timer runs out, two minutes have elapsed and it is time take the egg out of the water. You don't need the four-minute timer for this riddle. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Five Hundred Riddle
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king. Who am I?
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Metal Rods Riddle
You are in a room with two metal rods and no other metal. One of them is magnetized and the other is not.
How can you determine which one is magnetized and which is not?
How can you determine which one is magnetized and which is not?
Hint:
Solution 1: Touch the end of one bar (A) to the middle of the other bar (B) forming a 'T' shape. If the bars are attracted then bar A is magnetized and if they are not attracted then bar B is the magnet. This is because magnets have fields at the poles (the ends) but not in the middle. So the end would attract and middle would not.
Solution 2: Hang a rod from the ceiling and if it turns north than it is the magnetized rod. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Solution 2: Hang a rod from the ceiling and if it turns north than it is the magnetized rod. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Many Have Heard Me
Hint:
13 Letter Words
I'm a thing
The fishermen love me
The doctors hate me
Kids want to eat me
I'm a 13 letter word
What am I?
The fishermen love me
The doctors hate me
Kids want to eat me
I'm a 13 letter word
What am I?
Hint: _H_T_ _ _I_ _ME_
Inside The Green House Riddle
There is a green house. Inside the green house there is a White house. Inside the White house there is a red house. Inside the red house there are lots of babies. What am I?
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1 Cookie Riddle
A boy is allowed to take one cookie from the jar, but at the end there are no cookies left, but he kept his promise of one cookie. How were all the cookies gone?
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Crawling In The Grass
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Monster Meals Riddle
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Rungs Of A 10 Foot Ladder
The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder?
Hint:
It will never cover the ladder because as the water rises, so will the floating ship. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Single Ship Riddle
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Sailing The Seas For Money
I sail the seas for money
As I attack another ship
Then I take the spoils of the battle
The enemy is in my grip
What am I?
As I attack another ship
Then I take the spoils of the battle
The enemy is in my grip
What am I?
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My Spreading Wings
I fly to any foreign parts,
Assisted by my spreading wings:
My body holds an hundred hearts,
Nay, I will tell you stranger things:
When I am not in haste I ride,
And then I mend my pace anon;
I issue fire out from my side
Ye witty youths, this riddle con.
I'm a?
Assisted by my spreading wings:
My body holds an hundred hearts,
Nay, I will tell you stranger things:
When I am not in haste I ride,
And then I mend my pace anon;
I issue fire out from my side
Ye witty youths, this riddle con.
I'm a?
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Cruise Ship Riddle
One night, the king and queen go on a cruise ship. The next day, 3 people get off the ship. Who's the 3rd person?
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Five Ships Riddle
Flying to Dantoonie I met Five ships. Each Ship had Five Crewman. each crewman had five pets. How many in all were flying to Dantoonie?
Hint:
One! I was going to Dantoonie. the other ships were leaveing. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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