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A prominent form of literature back in the Medieval age, the riddle’s undeniable charm still holds weight today. If your hobby is answering riddles, do you think you can uncover two or all of these?
Answers are provided below.
EASY
1. What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
2. Whoever makes it, says it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not.
3. What has a bank with no money and waves with no hands?
MODERATE
4. A mother offered to pay her son S$5 for every correct answer he gets on his Maths test. Her son said he would pay his Mum S$8 for every incorrect answer. There were 26 questions on the test and no money was exchanged.
Why is that so?
5. Jack lent Rose as much money as she already had then, she spent S$10. On the second day, Jack lent her as much money as she had now and she spent S$10 again. The next day, Jack once again lent her as much money as she currently had. She spent S$10 and was broke afterwards.
How much money did Rose start with?
6. Jenny’s friends were chipping in cash to buy her a baby shower gift. At first, ten friends chipped in, but two of them flaked out. Each of the eight had to give in another dollar to bring the amount back up.
How much money did they plan to collect?
DIFFICULT
7. An elderly Singaporean wanted to leave all of his fortune to one of his three sons. However, he did not know which one is worthy of his wealth. He gave each of them a few S$1’s and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straws, but it were not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled the room, and he obtained his father’s fortune.
What were the two things that the wise son (3rd man) bought?
8. An affluent man named Phillip Ng had been counting his money. He accidentally left a S$1,000 bill on his desk. He returned for it but, it was gone. Only 2 other people could have seen the bill in the short amount of time. It was either between his maid and his butler.
The maid told him that she had hidden it for safe-keeping under a green book that was on the desk. When they looked the bill was not there.
The butler said he had found the bill where the maid had left it. He had placed it inside the least suspicious book. He had written down the page numbers so that he would not forget them. The bill was between pages 35 and 36, he said. But there was no money in that book.
After Mr. Ellis had talked to the maid and the butler he phoned the police. He knew who had taken the money. How was this possible?
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ANSWERS
1. Money
2. Counterfeit or Fake Money
3. River
4. The son got 10 incorrect answers and 16 correct ones.
5. S$8.75
6. S$40
7. The “wise” son bought a candle and a lighter. The light from the candle filled the entire room.
8. Mr. Ng knew that the butler was lying because pages 35 and 36 of a book are always printed on the opposited sides of the same paper.
