Riddle contest

1. Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and
three legs in the evening?

2. The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are

these sentences true or false?

3. You have a 5 gallon bucket, a 3 gallon bucket, and a hose to fill them
up. You need to get 4 gallons. You have no means of measuring how
many gallons are in each bucket (except knowing the bucket capacity).
How can you be certain that you have 4 gallons?

4. Jack is a farmer and owns some chickens. One day, he took a basket of
fresh eggs to the market to sell.
The first person bought half of all the eggs in the basket and half an
egg.
Then, the second person bought half of the remaining eggs and half an
egg.
Later, the third person bought half of the remaining eggs and half an
egg.
Now Jack's basket has only 1 egg left.
If no eggs were broken in the process, how many eggs did he originally
have in his basket?

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6. You are at a river. With you are a Chicken, Bag of Grain, and a Wolf.
You have to cross the river in your canoe but can only take one with
you at a time.
You can't leave the chicken with the grain. He'll eat it.
You can't leave the wolf with the chicken. He'll eat it.
How do you get everything over and intact?
7. A snail is at the bottom of a 20 meters deep pit. Every day the snail
climbs 5 meters upwards, but at night it slides 4 meters back
downwards. How many days does it take before the snail reaches the
top of the pit?
8. A man wanted to plant 10 apple trees, he wants to plant them in a way
that he has 5 lines of trees with 4 trees on each line. How can he do
that? (draw it)
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When asked about his birthday, a man said:

"The day before yesterday I was only 25 and next year I will turn 28."
This is true only one day in a year - when was he born?
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In the middle of an otherwise empty field there lies a man
wearing a pack.
He is dead.
There are no other clues visible.

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A man is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the
west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very
violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the
fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.
There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.
How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other
means to put out the fire)

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A man is caught on the King's property. He is brought before the
King to be punished.
The King says, "You must give me a statement. If it is true, you will
killed by lions. If it is false, you will be killed by trampling of wild
buffalo."
But in the end, the King has to let the man go.
What was the man's statement?

18. A bridge will collapse in 17 minutes. 4 people want to cross it before it

will collapse. It is a dark night and there is only one torch between
them. Only two people can cross at a time.
"A" takes a minute to cross.
"B" takes 2 minutes.
"C" takes 5
and "D" takes 10 minutes
How do they all cross before the bridge collapses?