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There is a castle with a square moat. It is 2 meters across. You have 2 planks of 1.5 meters in length. You MUST use the planks to cross the moat, there are crocodiles in the water and you are standing on concrete ground. You are trying to get IN to the castle.
How do you cross the moat?

Answer

Put one plank across a corner, then balance the second one between the first plank and the ground on the other side of the moat.

A magician was at a carnival bragging about how he could hold his breath under water for 6 minutes. A boy walked up and told him, "I can stay under water for 10 minutes! But if I can't, I'll pay you $100, but if I do, you have to pay me $100." The magician ended up having to give the boy $100. How did the boy get the money?

Answer

He got himself a glass of water and held it over his head for 10 minutes.

A basket has 6 eggs in it. A man comes along and takes 2 eggs. A woman comes along and takes 1 egg.
A boy comes along and takes 2 eggs. A girl comes along and takes 1 egg. There is still one egg in the basket.
How?

Answer

The girl takes the basket, with the egg in it.

If a bottle of orange juice sells for $1.00, and the juice itself is worth 90c more than the bottle, what is the value of the bottle?
Hint: It's NOT 10 cents.

Answer

The bottle is 5 cents - If the juice is 90 cents MORE than the bottle that makes the juice cost 95 cents, add the 5 cents for the bottle and you get your dollar. So no it is not 10 cents which you may have been thinking.

If it was 10 cents and the bottle is 90 cents MORE that would put the juice at $1 + 0.10 (bottle) which would put you over by 10 cents.

Here's the equation for this.

J - Juice = ( B + 90 )
B - Bottle

$1.00 = ( B + 90 ) + B

$1.00 - 90 = .10c

.10c = 2B

.05 = B

There are oranges, apples, and bananas in the back of a produce truck. The truck encounters a speed bump. What drops?

Answer

The speed of the truck.

A man went to a carnival. He brought his 2 daughters, they each brought 4 kids, and each kid brought 3 friends.
How many people are going to the carnival?

Answer

You don't know because they aren't the only ones going to the carnival.

Before they are blindfolded, 3 women are told that each one will have either a red or blue cross painted on her forehead. When the blindfolds are removed, each women is supposed to raise her hand if she sees a red cross and to drop her hand when she figures out her own cross color.

The 3 women are blindfolded and a red cross is painted on all of their foreheads. The blindfolds are removed. After looking at each other, the women raise their hands simultaneously. After a short time, one of the women lowers her hand and says, "My cross is red."
How did she reason it out?

Answer

One of the women reasons as follows:
The other 2 can't determine their color. This means that I too have a red cross. Call the 3 women A,B and C, and A is the one that lowered her hand. Consider A's initial reaction. She looks at B and C and notices they both have a red cross. Naturally, she raises her hand as she has been instructed to do. Similarly, B and C raise their hands at the sight of two red crosses. So how did A figure it out? A must of had a flash as insight, thinking as follows:

"Let me assume that I have a blue cross on my forehead. If that is so,then one of the other two , say B, would know she doesn't have a blue cross because otherwise C, seeing 2 blue crosses-mine and B's- would not have put up her hand. But this has not happened, so B and C cannot determine their color. This means that I too have a red cross."

You're in a room, with nothing in it except two robots. One robot always tells the truth, the other always lies. You don't know which is which.

There are two doors leading out of the room. One leads to certain death, the other leads to freedom. You don't know which is which.
You can ask either robot a question which will help you get out of the room. What is that question.
(Remember, you don't know which robot is which!)

Answer

You ask either of the robots "What would the other robot say if I asked it which is the door to freedom?"

If you as it this question, you will get the same answer from either robot. This is because the truth robot would want to tell you the truth, but because the other robot lies, it would have to lie too.
If you asked the liar robot this question, he knows that the other robot would tell the truth but he would lie.
So if you asked either robot that question, they would both point to the door to certain death.

There is a frog lying dead in the centre of a lilypad. The lilypad is sinking and there is two lilypads either side of him. Which lilypad should he jump to, the left or the right?

Answer

None of them, he is dead!

There was a person that turned 4 but he could drive, had his license, and didn't look a day over 16.
How?

Answer

He was born on Febuary 29!

There is a straw house on fire, a rock house on fire, and a brick house on fire. Which house does the ambulance put out first?

Answer

Neither. The ambulance doesn't put out fires.

You have one glass of water. You poured one-half of the water into another glass and then poured again half of the water to another glass and so on and so forth. How many glasses of water are there?

Answer

You just have one glass of water. You just distributed to different glasses to make it look like you have a lot of glasses of water.