The Ages of Three Daughters

I was visiting a friend one evening and remembered that he had three daughters. I asked him how old they were. “The product of their ages is 72,” he answered. Quizzically, I asked, “Is there anything else you can tell me?” “Yes,” he replied, “the sum of their ages is equal to the number of my house.” I stepped outside to see what the house number was. Upon returning inside, I said to my host, “I’m sorry, but I still can’t figure out their ages.” He responded apologetically, “I’m sorry, I forgot to mention that my oldest daughter likes strawberry shortcake.” With this information, I was able to determine all three of their ages. How old is each daughter?

How old they are? Click here! 

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Calculation of The Ages of Three Daughters

How it was asked to find with some clues? 

The product of their age is 72; so possible combinations are,

3 x 3 x 8 = 72                       3 + 3 + 8 = 14

2 x 6 x 6 = 72                       2 + 6 + 6 = 14

2 x 2 x 18 = 72                     2 + 2 + 18 = 22

2 x 3 x 12 = 72                     2 + 3 + 12 = 17

2 x 4 x 9 = 72                       2 + 4 + 9 = 15

3 x 4 x 6 = 72                       3 + 4 + 6 = 13
 
If any of last 4 combinations was correct then I would have come to know ages of daughter straightaway as their sum is unique. So friend's house number as he must have told must be 14. That's why I was uncertain with the correct combination as they are appearing twice.

In next clue, he indirectly suggest he has only 1 oldest daughter. So 2,6,6 is eliminated as in that case he would have 2 oldest daughters.

So the correct combination is 3,3,8. That means he had oldest daughter of age 8 & younger twins.

250 Lbs Across The River?

Two boys weighing 50 pounds each and their older brother weighing 100 pounds wish to cross a river. Their boat will only hold 100 pounds.

How can they all cross the river in the boat?

Find here how they can! 

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Taking 250 Lbs Across The River.

What was the challenge? 

1. First 2 boys of 50 pounds should cross the river.

2. One of them should bring back the boat at other end.

3. A boy with 100 pounds should carry himself across the river with boat.

4. Other boy of 50 pounds waiting across the river now should bring back the boat again.

5. Now both boys of 50 pounds now should cross the river. 

Which Door First?

While driving his car a man slams on the brakes when he sees, in the middle of the street, a diamond studded door, a gold door and a silver door. 

Which door does he open first?

Which door should I choose?

This should be first one! 

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This Should Be First Door!

What's the situation? 

To open any other door he need to get out of the car & for that first he needs to open the door of the car.

"Thanks,You're Fired!"

A man is leaving on a business trip and stops by his office on the way to the airport. The night watchman stops him and says, "Sir, don't take that flight. I had a dream last night that your plane would crash and everyone would die!" The business man cancels his trip and sure enough, the plane crashes, killing all the passengers. The man gives his watchman a $10,000 reward for saving his life, then fires him. Why?

That's why! 

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This Is Not Allowed On Duty

What exactly happened? 

The man awarded $10000 obviously for saving his life. The duty of night watchman is to keep watch on office at night not to sleep & dream.

That's why he fires the watchman.

Snail Up The Wall

A snail creeps 10 feet up a wall during the daytime, then falls asleep. It wakes up the next morning and discovers it slipped down 6 feet. If this happens each day, how many days will it take to reach the top of a 20 feet wall?

Escape to answer! 

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A Snail On Top of The Wall !

Read the question first! 

Let's find out progress of snail day by day.

Day 1 : UP to 10, DOWN to 4

Day 2 : UP to 14, DOWN to 8

Day 3 : UP to 18, DOWN to 12

Day 4 : UP to 22 which is greater than 20.

So snail requires 4 days to reach the top of the wall.

The 500 Miles Race

Mike, Jimmy, Nader, Kevin and Larry were the top five finishers in the regional 500-mile race. They drove yellow, orange, green, red and blue cars but not necessarily in that order.

1. Neither Kevin nor Larry drove the green car.

2. Kevin finished faster than Mike and Larry.

3. The blue car finished earlier than Larry’s and Nader’s car.

4. The yellow car finished faster than the green car and the orange car.

5. Mike’s and Larry’s car finished ahead of the orange car.

6. Jimmy’s car finished before the blue and the yellow car.

Who drove what color car and what place did each driver finish?

To know that click here! 

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Stats of The 500 Miles Race

Here is the scenario! 

Let's make a bit simple by putting clues into table. Rows representing owner while columns representing their cars. Now we need to use logical deduction by using all the clues & fill the table one by one. Finally, we get this.

Stats of The 500 Miles Race

 Filled circle represents rank of the particular car or participant. e.g. 1 circle means it's first, 2 means second & so on.

 

Losing Ten Minutes An Hour

A clock loses exactly ten minutes every hour. If the clock is set correctly at noon, what is the correct time when the clock reads 3:00pm?

Faulty Clock

Find it here!

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Real Time Of a Faulty Clock

How much faulty it was? 

A clock loses 10 minutes in every hour that means for 60 real minutes it shows 50 minutes. In another words, real time is 60/50 = 1.2 times the minutes shown by the slower clock. It was set correctly at noon & at 3:00 PM ; 180 minutes of slower clock elapsed. That means the real time is 180 x 1.2 = 216. So it's 3:36 PM in real time clock!

Correct Time

'The Slowest Race' Brain Teaser

An Arab sheik is old and must will his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition. His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line LAST will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line.

In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line.

What did the wise man say?

This is what he said! 

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Winning 'The Slowest Race'

Why was wise man asked? 


The wise man asked the brothers to switch camels. Now every brother tried

hard to make other brother's camel a winner! 

     Wise Man's Advice

Being Alive After Lift Crash Landing? - Puzzle

A lift is on the ground floor. There are four people in the lift including me.When the lift reaches first floor, one person gets in and three people get out.The lift goes up to the second floor, 2 people get out 6 people get in.It then goes up to the next floor up, no-one gets out but 12 people get in. Halfway up to the next floor up the lift cable snaps, it crashes to the floor.

Everyone else dies in the lift. How did I survive?

  
This is how did I! 

Escape from Crash Landed Lift

This was the incident. 

Read carefully once again, in journey from 1st to 2nd floor there are only 2 

people in the lift. At 2nd floor, 2 people get out that means it includes me   

as well. This is how I survived.

Selecting The Barbershop

A man is driving South to Florida for a vacation. On the way, he realizes that he needs a haircut, so he stops in a small town along the way. He asks one of the residents where he can find a barbershop, and the resident tells him that there are only two barbers in town, one in the north part of town and one in the south. The man visits the north barber, and finds that the barbershop is messy and the barber himself has a bad haircut. He then visits the south barber, who has a clean barbershop and a good haircut. 

However, the man decides to return to the north barber for his haircut. Why does he do this?

This is why he does so! 

Reason To Choose The North Barbershop

Here is the question! 

Since there are only 2 barbershops in town each barber has to go to each other for their haircut. So barber with good haircut must had it from the other barber at the north. Obviously, the man choose him to get a nice look.