I look like a pearl,
What am I?
Dew.
I’m not the sort that’s eaten, I’m not the sort you bake,
Pi (3.141592653)
This on this.
What am I?
A stack.
By Sef Daystrom
No thicker than your finger when it folds.
A sack.
By Sef Daystrom
Two bodies have I, though both joined in one,
What am I?
An hourglass.
I can be long, or I can be short.
Sands in an hourglass.
Imagine you’re alone in a boat with a large hole in the bottom. Sharks are swimming around you on all sides and the boat is sinking fast. How do you survive?
Stop imagining ;)
A merchant has 21 sacks of grain: 7 full, 7 half-full and 7 empty. He wants to divide them equally among his three sons. How can he do this, without transferring any grain between sacks, so each son has the same quantity of grain and number of sacks?
We know each son must end up with 7 sacks and 3.5 sacks of grain, since (7 sacks + 7 half sacks) / 3 = 3.5 sacks each.
Solution 1
Solution 2
We know each son must end up with 7 sacks and 3.5 sacks of grain, since (7 sacks + 7 half sacks) / 3 = 3.5 sacks each.
Solution 1
Solution 2
Tear one off and scratch my head. What once was red is black instead. What am I?
A match.
This is a duplicate of red black instead , but I’m leaving them both to avoid broken links.
A match.
This is a duplicate of red black instead , but I’m leaving them both to avoid broken links.
5 cats can catch 5 mice in 5 minutes. How many cats does it take to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
5 cats. The same five could keep catching 5 mice every 5 minutes for 100 minutes.
5 cats. The same five could keep catching 5 mice every 5 minutes for 100 minutes.