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Riddle: You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?

Answer: The the nine rungs will be above the water. As the tide rises, so will the ship and the ladder

Rating: 100%

Answer: I am the horizon

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Where are the lakes that are referred to in the “Los Angeles Lakers?“

Answer: In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west

Rating: 100%

Riddle: Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

Answer: On a Map

Rating: 100%

Riddle: While exploring the wilds of Canada, Wild Man Dave was captured by hostile wood fairies. Brad, the powerful chief of the fairies told him he could make one final statement which would determine how he would die. If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water. If the statement were true, he would be fried in oil. Wild Man Dave found neither of this options too his liking, so he made a statement that got him out of this seemingly impossible situation. What is the one statement he could have made?

Answer: Wild Man Dave said: “You will boil me in water.”The fairies were faced with a dilemma. If they boil him in water, that would make his statement true, which means he should have been fried in oil. They can only fry him in oil if he makes a true statement, but if they do, it would make his final statement false. The fairies had no way our of their situation so they were forced to set Wild Man Dave free

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned. But the man who drowned had no brother. Who was the beggar to the man who drowned?

Answer: Sister

Rating: 100%

Riddle: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man told him, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I fail, I will pay you $50.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agreed, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end, the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

Answer: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote “your exact weight” on the paper.

Rating: 75%

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