perplex: May 2017

Sunday 21 May 2017

Once Akbar challenged Birbal. He asked Birbal to write a line on wall which when read in happy times makes you sad but when read in sad times makes you happy.

What would he have written to satisfy the conditions given by his king?

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A man was brought to Akbar's court and he found the man guilt of a little offense. HE decided to punish the man and asked him to make a statement. If the statement is held true by Akbar, the man will be killed by hanging him to death and if the statement is held false, the man will be killed by giving poison.

The man was confused. He did not know what to say. Therefore, he looked at Birbal and asked for suggestion. Birbal thought for a while and decided to help him, as he had not committed a major offense. He told something in his ear and the man then said the statement to Akbar.

After hearing the statement, Akbar could not kill him. What was the statement?

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As illustrated in the image below, a boy is fighting for his life.

This is definitely the worst possible scenario for the boy as there are multiple life threats at the same time

Threat-1: If the boy moves toward the right a snake is ready to bite and put his life to end

Threat-2: A hungry Lion is roaring and waiting for the boy to drop and be his dinner.

Threat-3: The two crocodile in the river waiting for the chopped branch to break so that boy can fall in the water.

Choose an escape plan for the boy?

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1 3 5

2 4 ?

Do you know what will come in place of ?

We must tell you that its not 6.

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I'm a five letter word. If you remove one, only two letters remain.

What word am I?
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This is a classic riddle.

I spend $50 in the way below. Where is my missing $1

spend	balance
20	30
15	15
9	6
6	0
total	total
50	51

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Can you count the number of minutes in Feb 2017?

Note: Shortest answer is the winner :-)

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Mr. Lavesh is on a secret mission and it's 5 January so he wants to send a message to her daughter Arshika.

Mr. Lavesh got a secret device by which he can only use below words for sending the message.

Piano, Numb, Company, Racial, Mozetta, Dining, Traitor, Meou, Quintana, legacy, Saphire, Trick, Orange, Frozen, Missi.

Mr. Lavesh sends the following message to her daughter:

Company Piano Numb Dining Racial Mozetta Traitor Meou Legacy Quintana Trick Missi Orange Frozen Sapphire

What does Mr. Lavesh's Message?
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What does this message say ?

G T Y O R J O T E O U I A B G T

Hint

Count the letters and try splitting the letters up into groups.

Also known as Julius Caesar Box.

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A Japanese ship is on route back to the shore from the Atlantic Ocean. Seeking the silent waves, the captain decides to take a shower. He keeps his Rolex and diamond studded gold bracelet on the shelf and goes for a shower. When he returns back, he finds both the watch and bracelet missing. He immediately calls the four crew members and asks them what they were doing during that duration. Following are the answers:

1. French Guy, the Cook: I was in the kitchen, making bacon sandwiches for everybody.

2. Russian Guy, the engineer: I was in the generator room, checking the generator.

3. Pakistani Guy, the housekeeper: I saw that the flag hoisted on the ship was upside down, so I went to correct it.

4. Srilankan Guy, the second housekeeper: I was tired and taking a quick nap.

The captain immediately knew who the thief was. Can you tell?

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It's one of the most popular puzzles in WhatsApp.

By seeing the image below, you need to figure out if it's a Murder or Suicide?

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In the bathroom, Dean Winchester right between the eyes using his shotgun. Of course, both the bullets and the shotgun is real. After one minute, Dean walks from the bathroom alive and there are no traces of blood.

How ?

Anne was found dead in the central park of London.

There are six suspects "hazard", "Costa", "Pedro", "Willian", "Terry" and "courtois".

Anne has written the murdered name in cipher on the floor as "dqvxf".

Police were unable to solve the mystery so they called Sherlock.

After a minute, Sherlock was able to decipher the cipher and ask the police to capture the murderer.

Who is the murderer?
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James Bond was relaxing in his hotel room in Lyon when he heard a knock at his door. Bond opened the door and see a beautiful woman whom he had never seen in his life. She said that she is so sorry and she thought that this was her room. She was about to leave the room when the Bond takes out his pistol and ask the girl to stop.

What made Bond suspicious of the girl?

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Indian jones went to Andaman(India) for the holiday where he came to know that there is a big treasure hidden here. The Map of the treasure is hidden somewhere in the cellular jail.

The Map location is hidden in the cipher below.

"roolF mooR gnignaH ehT edisnI neddiH sI paM erusaerT"

What is the map location?

It raining today at 11:59 am. What's the probability of sunny weather after 72 hours?
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Can you arrange four nines to make it equal to 100.

Hint: use two mathematical symbols.
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1 = 6

2 = 12

3 = 18

4 = 24

5 = 30

Then 6 = ?

Hint: Its a logic Riddle not a mathematical riddle
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What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1000?

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what you get if you add 3 in 300 five times ?

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Saturday 20 May 2017

what mathematical symbol can be put between 2 and 9, to get the number bigger than 2 and smaller than 9?

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criminal case

A criminal gets to pick his punishment by choosing among three rooms.

The first is full of burning fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is the safest choice?

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