Light It Up
If you have one match and enter a room in which there is a stove, a kerosine lamp, and an oil burner, what will you light up first?
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Half Empty, Half Full
You have a glass with perfectly cylindrical shape which has some water in it. How can you figure out if the glass is exactly half full without using any measurement tools (like a ruler)?
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Single Word
Cross out nine letters so that the remaining letters spell a single word.
N A I S N I E N L G E L T E T W E O R R S D
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Lucky Day
Scientists have discovered that on one particular date in the year, there is
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Out of Place
Which of the numbers below is out of place and why?
1011, 2223, 3940, 5646, 8910
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Two Games at Once
The Devil offers you a deal – you have to play two games of chess simultaneously against the two best GrandMasters in the world, one with black pieces and one with white pieces. If you win at least 1 point from the two games, you will get whatever your heart desires, if you don’t – you will go straight to Hell. Would you accept the challenge?
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Magic Liquid
You buy a bottle with a letter from the merchant, the merchant tells you that when you drink the liquid in the bottle it grants you eternal life, he supposedly deciphered this from the letter.
After you get home you decide to study the letter if it really says what the merchant told you, can you figure out if the bottle really grants eternal life?
You come to a fork in the road.
To the left is an empty well made from stone.
On the right is a pirate’s buried treasure.
Ahead you only see a tall straight tree.
The night is dark with only a dying moon in the sky.
Source: Puzzling StackExchange
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Bottle, Coin and Cork
You put a little coin in an empty wine bottle and then insert the cork in its opening. How can you remove the coin without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?
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Camel in the Desert
One man is trying to cross the desert to reach the neighboring village. It takes 4 days to get there, but his camel can carry bananas which will feed him for 3 days only. How can the man reach the neighboring village without starving?
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