Take A Break - Puzzles & Riddles 1

Puzzles:

1. Five athletes are returning from a cross-country race. Athlete C placed third, and athlete E placed second. From the information below, can you tell how athletes A, B, and D placed in the race?
2. A large family consists of eight sons, and each one of them has one sister. Assuming there is both a mother and father, how many people are in that family?
3. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

Answers:

1. Athlete A was fourth, B was first, and D was fifth
2. 11 people
3. A stamp
   

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Puzzles:

1. A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?
2. What is the product of the following series: (x-a), (x-b), (x-c), .....(x-z) ?
3. What is it that goes with an automobile and comes with it; is of no use to it, and yet the automobile cannot move without it?

Answer:

1. Three. One blonde, one brunette and one redhead.
2. Zero. All factors are multiplied by the factor (x-x) which is zero.
3. Noise

Puzzles:

1. You are in a race and you overtake the person who is in second place. What is your position now?
2. Add a single line to the equation in order to make it true (the 'equals' sign remains unchanged). 105 + 2 + 5 = 350
3. What has no content yet you can see it?

Answer:

1. Second place
2. Add a line to the second plus sign in order to make it into a four.
   
3. A hole

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1. What is full of holes but still holds water?
2. You begin reading a book 240 pages long. If you read half of the remaining book each day how long would it take you to finish the book?
3. You are at a game show and there are three closed doors. There is a prize hidden behind one of the doors and the game show host knows where it is. You are asked to choose a door. The game show host then opens one of the other two doors showing that it is empty and asks you if you would like to change your selection. Should you stick to your original selection?

Answer:

1. A sponge
2. You will never finish the book.
3. It is better if you select the other door. Since there are three doors then there is a 67% chance that you choose the wrong door with your first selection. If you are wrong the game show host will select the other wrong door since she knows where the prize is hidden. Therefore it is better if you switch to the door which the game show host leaves closed.