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Here are a few facts about logical thinking. They may be able to help you in solving a few of these riddles:
Logic has a few definitions, but is most known as the study of reasoning.
Logic is used everyday in areas like mathematics, computers, and philosophy.
The word logic is derived from the Greek word "logos."
The creation of the study of logic is often attributed to Aristotle.
Aristotle's study of logic has had a tremendous impact on the history of the world.
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Fruit Friends Riddle
Hint:
She will always need to give you 5 apples. You both need at least 5 apples to begin with, but apart from that it doesnt matter exactly how many you each have. When she gives you 5 you will have 10 more than her because she will lose 5 and you will gain 5, resulting in a net difference of 10.
For example, if you each have 25 apples and she gives you 5 of hers, she will be left with 20 and you will now have 30, precisely 10 more than she has. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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For example, if you each have 25 apples and she gives you 5 of hers, she will be left with 20 and you will now have 30, precisely 10 more than she has. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
YES NO
Throwing A Ball Riddle
Hint:
What is the easiest way to throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance? Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Ready For Takeoff
Two jets take off at the same time. There is only one runway but there where no crashes and it was at the same airport. A plane takes more than 1min to take off. How can this happen?
Hint:
Opening Doors Riddle
Hint:
Switch Or Stick Riddle
There are three doors: Door 1, Door 2, and Door 3. Behind one of these doors lies eternal bliss, but behind the others lies eternal despair. You are allowed to choose any door, and you pick Door 1. Suddenly, Door 3 is swung open and revealed to be despair! You are give another choice: you may stick with the door you chose (1) or switch to the other (2). What should you do?
Hint:
The answer may surprise you: switch. Due to something called the Monty Hall Paradox, you will statistically have a better chance of making the "correct" choice. The concept is as follows:
Door 1 Door 2 Door 3
All have an equal chance to be correct:
Door 1: 1/3 Door 2: 1/3 Door 3: 1/3
After choosing Door 1, the remaining two have a 2/3 chance of containing the right choice:
Door1: 1/3 Doors 2 3: 2/3
If Door 3 is removed, the probability does not shift to 50:50. Instead, it is:
Door 1: 1/3 Door 2: 2/3
Thus, you should switch. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Door 1 Door 2 Door 3
All have an equal chance to be correct:
Door 1: 1/3 Door 2: 1/3 Door 3: 1/3
After choosing Door 1, the remaining two have a 2/3 chance of containing the right choice:
Door1: 1/3 Doors 2 3: 2/3
If Door 3 is removed, the probability does not shift to 50:50. Instead, it is:
Door 1: 1/3 Door 2: 2/3
Thus, you should switch. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Condemned To Death Riddle
A murderer is condemned to death.
He has to choose between three rooms.
-The first is full of raging fires
-The second is full of assassins with loaded guns
-The third is full of lions that havent eaten in 3 years.
Which room is safest for him?
He has to choose between three rooms.
-The first is full of raging fires
-The second is full of assassins with loaded guns
-The third is full of lions that havent eaten in 3 years.
Which room is safest for him?
Hint: When's the last time you ate?
The 3rd one because the lions should have died after not eating for 3 years. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Doorway To Heaven
You die then you find yourself in limbo, and you see two doors. One of them leads you to hell and the other one heaven. They are being guarded by two guardians. The guardian guarding the doorway to heaven always tells the truth and the guardian guarding the doorway to hell always lies. What is the one question you will ask to either of the guardians to find out which door will lead you to heaven?
Hint:
If I asked the other guardian which door leads to heaven, what would he tell me? Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Prohibited Chess Riddle
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Accepting The Bet Riddle
There is a box in which distinct numbered balls have been kept. You have to pick two balls randomly from the lot.
If someone is offering you a 2 to 1 odds that the numbers will be relatively prime, for example
If the balls you picked had the numbers 6 and 13, you lose $1.
If the balls you picked had the numbers 5 and 25, you win $2.
Will you accept that bet?
If someone is offering you a 2 to 1 odds that the numbers will be relatively prime, for example
If the balls you picked had the numbers 6 and 13, you lose $1.
If the balls you picked had the numbers 5 and 25, you win $2.
Will you accept that bet?
Hint:
Yes, you should accept the bet. Simply because the odds of picking two relatively prime numbers are 60%. It is a win-win situation for you if you keep playing. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Grapeland To Applecity
You have to send 3,000 grapes 1,000 kilometers from grapecity to appleland. Your truck can carry 1,000 grapes at a time. Every time you travel a kilometer towards appleland you must pay a tax of 1 grape but you pay nothing when going in the other direction (towards grapecity).
What is highest number of grapes you can get to appleland?
What is highest number of grapes you can get to appleland?
Hint:
Step one: First you want to make 3 trips of 1,000 grapes 333 kilometers. You will be left with 2,001 grapes and 667 kilometers to go.
Step two: Next you want to take 2 trips of 1,000 grapes 500 kilometers. You will be left with 1,000 grapes and 167 kilometers to go (you have to leave a grape behind).
Step three: Finally, you travel the last 167 kilometers with one load of 1,000 grapes and are left with 833 grapes in appleland. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Step two: Next you want to take 2 trips of 1,000 grapes 500 kilometers. You will be left with 1,000 grapes and 167 kilometers to go (you have to leave a grape behind).
Step three: Finally, you travel the last 167 kilometers with one load of 1,000 grapes and are left with 833 grapes in appleland. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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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?
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Soldiers On The River
A detachment of soldiers must cross a river. The bridge is broken, the river is deep. What to do? Suddenly the officer-in-charge spots two boys playing in a rowboat by the shore. The boat is so tiny, however, that it can only hold 2 boys or 1 soldier. Still - all the soldiers succeed in crossing the river in the boat. How?
Hint:
First the boys cross the river. One stays ashore while the other brings the boat to the soldiers. A soldier takes the boat back across and the boy that stayed before brings the boat back and picks up the other boy. The boat takes the two boys back and one remains while the other boy returns the boat to the soldiers. This is repeated until all of the soldiers are on the opposite side of the river. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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Stolen Apple Riddle
Mrs. Stotch is a fifth grade teacher. One of her students took her apple. Mrs. Stotch has narrowed the suspects down to Billy, Paige, and Tyler. Each of the students give these statements:
Billy: I didnt do it.
Paige: I didnt do it.
Tyler: Paige did it!
Mrs. Stotch knows that only one of the kids is telling the truth. Who is telling the truth and who took the apple?
Billy: I didnt do it.
Paige: I didnt do it.
Tyler: Paige did it!
Mrs. Stotch knows that only one of the kids is telling the truth. Who is telling the truth and who took the apple?
Hint:
Billy did it. Paige is telling the truth so she didnt do it. Tyler is lying so he reinforces that Paige didnt do it. Billy is lying so he did it. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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4 Men Camping Riddle
4 men went camping. They decided to go for a hike. They brought one umbrella but when they came back to the camp. None of their clothes are wet. How did it not get wet?
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How Many Birth Days Riddle
Hint:
One, he may have many Birthdays, but only one birth day. Did you answer this riddle correctly?
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1. Why did the logician break up with his girlfriend? Because they had too many fallacies in their relationship.
2. How do you catch a squirrel using formal logic? Set up a syllogism with a nut as the conclusion.
3. Why did the philosopher refuse to go to the grocery store? Because he didn't believe in a posteriori knowledge.
4. Why did the mathematician go on a diet? To solve the weight problem.
5. Why did the chicken cross the road using propositional logic? To get to the other side of the truth table.
6. What do you call a logician who takes a long time to reach a conclusion? A syllogism.
7. How many logicians does it take to change a light bulb? None, they prefer to sit in the dark and contemplate the nature of light.
8. Why couldn't the logician sleep? He kept trying to form an adequate negation of "I am sleepy".
9. Why did the logician wear a two-colored hat? To ensure that the Law of Excluded Middle didn't apply.
10. What do you call a fallacious argument from a cow? A mooot point.
11. Why did the logician refuse to play cards with his friends? Because he doesn't believe in chance.
12. What do you call a logical argument from a whale? A cetacean of reason.
13. Why did the chicken refuse to enter the barn? Because the premise of the door's existence was never established.
14. How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb? None, they would rather question the existence of light.
15. Why did the logical argument cross the road? To prove it was valid.
16. What do you call perfect deductive reasoning? A genius's argument.
17. Why was the logician's car a convertible? So they could put the top down for implication.
18. How many logicians does it take to screw in a light bulb? They would argue about the definition of "screw".
19. Why did the mathematician take a job as a lion tamer? To solve the problem of fear.
20. What do you call a logical argument from a computer? An algorithm of reasoning.
21. Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side.
22. How many philosophers does it take to agree on anything? The world may never know.
23. Why did the logician refuse to go to the beach? There were too many ways to take "wave" out of context.
24. What's the difference between an illogical chicken and a logical chicken? The latter crosses the road with a premise and a conclusion.
25. Why did the philosopher quit smoking? Because he realized that causation does not equal correlation.
26. What do you call a logical argument from a bird? A fowl syllogism.
27. Why did the logician refuse to watch movies? They already knew how it was going to end.
28. Why did the mathematician start a garden? To find a square root.
29. What do you call an argument that can talk but not walk? An invalid conclusion.
30. Why did the logician refuse to enter the world of online dating? Because it contradicts the Law of Identity.
31. What do you call a logical argument from a bee? A logical buzz.
32. How does a logician propose to their significant other? With a valid argument and a promise to never commit a fallacy.
33. Why did the philosopher join a gym? To prove that mind and body are not separate entities.
34. What do you call a logical argument from a snake? A reasoned hiss.
35. Why did the chicken refuse to participate in the Monty Hall problem? They had already established their pick as a matter of existential identity.
36. How do you get a logician to take a break? Present them with an unsolvable paradox.
37. Why did the logician refuse to eat the apple? They were suspicious of the causality behind it.
38. What do you call a logical argument from a hippo? A logical exercise.
39. Why did the philosopher refuse to attend the party? They didn't want to commit to the fallacy of generalization.
40. What do you call a logical argument from a donkey? A logical hee-haw.
41. Why did the logician refuse to go on vacation? The premise and conclusion of relaxation were never clearly defined.
42. What do you call a logical argument from a cricket? A logical chirp.
43. Why did the mathematician invest in the stock market? To solve the problem of exponential growth.
44. How can you tell if a logical argument is lost? It starts to formulate a premise and conclusion in circles.
45. Why did the logician refuse to go to the amusement park? They were integral to an ongoing proof.
46. What do you call a logical argument from a fish? A logical swim.
47. Why did the philosopher refuse to eat meat? They were argumentatively against the premise of animal exploitation.
48. What do you call a logical argument from a squirrel? A logical nut.
49. Why did the logician refuse to get a pet? Too many variables in the equation.
50. What do you call a logical argument from an alligator? A logical snap.
1. Why did the logician break up with his girlfriend? Because they had too many fallacies in their relationship.
2. How do you catch a squirrel using formal logic? Set up a syllogism with a nut as the conclusion.
3. Why did the philosopher refuse to go to the grocery store? Because he didn't believe in a posteriori knowledge.
4. Why did the mathematician go on a diet? To solve the weight problem.
5. Why did the chicken cross the road using propositional logic? To get to the other side of the truth table.
6. What do you call a logician who takes a long time to reach a conclusion? A syllogism.
7. How many logicians does it take to change a light bulb? None, they prefer to sit in the dark and contemplate the nature of light.
8. Why couldn't the logician sleep? He kept trying to form an adequate negation of "I am sleepy".
9. Why did the logician wear a two-colored hat? To ensure that the Law of Excluded Middle didn't apply.
10. What do you call a fallacious argument from a cow? A mooot point.
11. Why did the logician refuse to play cards with his friends? Because he doesn't believe in chance.
12. What do you call a logical argument from a whale? A cetacean of reason.
13. Why did the chicken refuse to enter the barn? Because the premise of the door's existence was never established.
14. How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb? None, they would rather question the existence of light.
15. Why did the logical argument cross the road? To prove it was valid.
16. What do you call perfect deductive reasoning? A genius's argument.
17. Why was the logician's car a convertible? So they could put the top down for implication.
18. How many logicians does it take to screw in a light bulb? They would argue about the definition of "screw".
19. Why did the mathematician take a job as a lion tamer? To solve the problem of fear.
20. What do you call a logical argument from a computer? An algorithm of reasoning.
21. Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side.
22. How many philosophers does it take to agree on anything? The world may never know.
23. Why did the logician refuse to go to the beach? There were too many ways to take "wave" out of context.
24. What's the difference between an illogical chicken and a logical chicken? The latter crosses the road with a premise and a conclusion.
25. Why did the philosopher quit smoking? Because he realized that causation does not equal correlation.
26. What do you call a logical argument from a bird? A fowl syllogism.
27. Why did the logician refuse to watch movies? They already knew how it was going to end.
28. Why did the mathematician start a garden? To find a square root.
29. What do you call an argument that can talk but not walk? An invalid conclusion.
30. Why did the logician refuse to enter the world of online dating? Because it contradicts the Law of Identity.
31. What do you call a logical argument from a bee? A logical buzz.
32. How does a logician propose to their significant other? With a valid argument and a promise to never commit a fallacy.
33. Why did the philosopher join a gym? To prove that mind and body are not separate entities.
34. What do you call a logical argument from a snake? A reasoned hiss.
35. Why did the chicken refuse to participate in the Monty Hall problem? They had already established their pick as a matter of existential identity.
36. How do you get a logician to take a break? Present them with an unsolvable paradox.
37. Why did the logician refuse to eat the apple? They were suspicious of the causality behind it.
38. What do you call a logical argument from a hippo? A logical exercise.
39. Why did the philosopher refuse to attend the party? They didn't want to commit to the fallacy of generalization.
40. What do you call a logical argument from a donkey? A logical hee-haw.
41. Why did the logician refuse to go on vacation? The premise and conclusion of relaxation were never clearly defined.
42. What do you call a logical argument from a cricket? A logical chirp.
43. Why did the mathematician invest in the stock market? To solve the problem of exponential growth.
44. How can you tell if a logical argument is lost? It starts to formulate a premise and conclusion in circles.
45. Why did the logician refuse to go to the amusement park? They were integral to an ongoing proof.
46. What do you call a logical argument from a fish? A logical swim.
47. Why did the philosopher refuse to eat meat? They were argumentatively against the premise of animal exploitation.
48. What do you call a logical argument from a squirrel? A logical nut.
49. Why did the logician refuse to get a pet? Too many variables in the equation.
50. What do you call a logical argument from an alligator? A logical snap.