5 Logic problems to put your brain in work.

Below are listed several problems that need some logic to be solved.

1. MILK JUGS

A milkman has two empty jugs: a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug.

How van he measure exactly one gallon without wasting any milk?

2.SOCKS AND SHOES

You are in the dark and in the floor there are six shoes of three colors, and a heap of twenty four socks, black and brown. How many socks and shoes must you take into the light to be certain that you have a matching pair of socks and a matching pair of shoes?

3.TWIN BROTHERS

Suppose there are twin brothers; one which always tells the truth and one which always lies.

What single yes/no question could you ask to either brother to figure out which is which?

4.CUT THE CAKE

How is it possible to cut a traditional circular cake into 8 equal size pieces, with only 3 cuts?

5.FOUR DIGIT NUMBER

What is the four digit number in which the first digit is one third the second, the third is the sum of the first and the second, and the last is three times the second.

Can you find the answers to these 12 riddles?

1. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
2. What has 4 fingers and a thumb but is not living?
3. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
4. We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies.
    We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?
5. Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?
6. What flies when it's born, lies when it's alive and run when it's dead?
7. What gets wet when drying?
8. I am always there, some distance away, somewhere between land or sea and sky I lay, you move towards me, yet distant I'll stay.
9. I am a mother and a father, but have never given birth. I'm rarely still but I never wander.What am I?
10. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can't go outside.What am I?
11. I can only live when there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I?
12. Every night I am told what to do, and each morning I do what I am told. But still I don't escape your scold.


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