Boxes Of Balls Riddle
The first box has two white balls. The second box has two black balls. The third box has a white and a black ball.
Boxes are labeled but all labels are wrong!
You are allowed to open one box, pick one ball at random, see its color and put it back into the box, without seeing the color of the other ball.
How many such operations are necessary to correctly label the boxes?
Boxes are labeled but all labels are wrong!
You are allowed to open one box, pick one ball at random, see its color and put it back into the box, without seeing the color of the other ball.
How many such operations are necessary to correctly label the boxes?
Hint:
Just One!
Because we know all labels are wrong.
So the BW box must be either BB or WW. Selecting one ball from BW will let you know which.
And the other two boxes can then be worked out logically. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Because we know all labels are wrong.
So the BW box must be either BB or WW. Selecting one ball from BW will let you know which.
And the other two boxes can then be worked out logically. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
YES NO
How Many Balls Riddle
In the drawer beside your bed, you have three orange, two pink and five purple balls. There is no electricity and the room is completely dark. How many balls you must take out to make sure you have one ball of each color at least?
Hint:
9
2 < 3 < 5
To find out the required number of balls, take one in place of the least number (i.e. take one pink ball) and then add all the greater numbers (i.e. three orange and five purple balls) to it.
Required number of balls = 1 + 3 + 5 = 9. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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2 < 3 < 5
To find out the required number of balls, take one in place of the least number (i.e. take one pink ball) and then add all the greater numbers (i.e. three orange and five purple balls) to it.
Required number of balls = 1 + 3 + 5 = 9. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Rides At The Fair Riddle
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53 Bicycles Riddle
There is a room with a table, 53 bicycles, and four men. One of the four men is dead. How did he die?
Hint:
The 53 bicycles were bicycle playing cards. There were 53 instead of 52 because one of the men was cheating at the card game (had an ace up his sleeve). He was shot for cheating. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Beach Paper Bath Riddle
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Old Bowling Balls Riddle
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Garland, Lights And Balls Riddle
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What Built A Table On My Shelf Riddle
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A spider. The silk comes from within the spider, and the "table" (web) is often built in corners like there are on a bookshelf. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Person Who Built It Sold It Riddle
The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it?
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No Elephants On The Beach
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Ten More Than Eighty Two Riddle
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Digging In The Beach
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Sand Piles Riddle
A child playing on the beach had 6-1/6 sand piles in one place and 3-1/3 in another. If he put them together, how many sand piles would he have?
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Cinderella At The Beach
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Found In The Ocean Riddle
Im surrounded by water but Im not a fish
Im often found in an ocean but Im not a whale
I have beaches but Im not California
I can be a desert but Im not the Sahara.
What am I?
Im often found in an ocean but Im not a whale
I have beaches but Im not California
I can be a desert but Im not the Sahara.
What am I?
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