Hard Riddles Page 8 of 14
Can you solve some of these hard riddles? You'll have to use your best thinking and solving skills to get all of these difficult riddles.
71. A man had dealt about half the cards for a bridge game (all cards are dealt out in this game) when he was interrupted by a telephone call. When he returned, no one could remember who had been dealt the last card. Without knowing the number of cards in any of the 4 partly dealt hands, or the number of cards remaining in the pack, how could the deal be completed so that everyone received the cards they would have received had the deal not been interrupted?
72. Jake has three boxes containing fruit in his barn: one box with apples, one box with oranges, and one box with both apples and oranges. The boxes have labels that describe the contents, but all three boxes are labeled incorrectly. By just reaching in and taking out fruit (no looking or feeling around inside the boxes), what is the minimum amount of fruit needed to be taken out to correctly label the boxes?
73. 3 ladies go for an interview and the interviewer decides to test them on their reasoning abilities. They are blindfolded and are told by the interviewer that each one of them will have either a red or a blue cross painted on her forehead. When the blindfolds are removed, each lady is then supposed to raise her hand if she sees a red cross (on either of the other 2 ladies) and to drop her hand when she figures out the color of her own cross. But the interviewer blindfolds the 3 ladies and draws a red cross on each of their foreheads. The blindfolds are then removed. After looking at one another, the 3 ladies raise their hands simultaneously. After a short while, one of the ladies lowers her hands and says, "My cross is red." How did she know?
74. Which is the odd word out:
Dive Suspect Taste Race Drive Borrow
75. A farmer gave away half his apples plus a half an apple three times. He ended up with one whole apple. How many apples did he have before he made the give away?
76. Why is it better for manhole covers to be round rather than square?
77. Rearrange the letters in the word, "new door", to make one word.
78. Continue the series: o t t f f s s _ _ _
79. When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow! What day of the week is it?
80. If
2 + 3 = 10
7 + 2 = 63
6 = 5 = 66
8 + 4 = 96
then
9 + 7 = ?
