11 curious riddles that will confuse your head

Guessing games are a fun way to train our mind and test our brain’s agility. According to the famous New York Times, “The interesting thing about a guessing game is not how quickly you find the answer. The idea of solving a mystery puts the brain in an open and playful mode, that is, a super pleasant pastime”.

We, from awesome.club, we love this kind of game and we want you to see the games we have prepared for you today. Have fun and get to work!

You can only move two matches. What is the largest number you can form?

Reply: 51,181

Explanation: you need to move the matches at the top and bottom of the number 0 and use them to make the number 1 after the 8.

find the answer

Reply: 25.

Explanation:

duck = 7

orange bird = 5

Raven = 8

1 duck (7) + 2 orange birds (2×5) + 1 crow (8) = 25.

Which direction does the bus go?

Explanation: the key to solving this riddle is to look where the entrance doors are (in the illustration, they are at the back, not shown in the image). So if you were in the UK the bus would go to the right, because there people drive on the left side of the road. However, in other countries, where people drive on the right side, the bus would go left.

Place 3 balls to get 30

Explanation: all balls have odd numbers. We know that the sum of 3 odd numbers never gives an even result.

But you can get the sum 30 using balls with numbers 11, 13 and 0, just turn 9 into 6.

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What is the employee weighing?

A butcher shop worker is 5’10”, has brown hair and wears a size 43 shoe. What does he weigh?

Reply: he is weighing a chicken.

Which container will you fill first?

The 4 pill problem

A blind man was abandoned in a desert. He has 2 red and 2 blue pills. They are identical in size and shape. To stay alive, he needs to take a red and a blue one.

Any other combination is certain death. How can he take exactly one of each color?

Reply: he needs to break the pills in half and take one half of each.

crossing the river

A young man travels with a wolf and two sheep. He arrives on the bank of a river and needs to cross with the animals. He sees a small boat for the crossing, but it can only take 2 passengers at a time. Also, he cannot leave the wolf alone with the sheep, because he might eat them.

How can he cross the river and take all the animals alive to the other side?

Reply:

To make it easier, let’s call the bank of the river where they are A and the other B.

Journey 1: he and the wolf go from A to B.

Trip 2: he goes alone from B to A.

Journey 3: he goes from A to B with a sheep.

Trip 4: he goes from B to A with the wolf.

Trip 5: he goes from A to B with the second sheep.

Trip 6: he goes from B to A alone.

Trip 7: he goes from A to B with the wolf.

Which of these lines are parallel?

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reading in the dark

Noah and his wife Emma are in the room. While he watches television, she reads. At 11 pm the power goes out. Noah goes into the bedroom and Emma continues reading.

If there’s no light and it’s 11 pm, how can she read?

Reply: Emma is able to continue reading in the dark because she is blind and the book is in braille.