Puzzles and Riddles

You see seven creatures. Two humans, one who flies and one who swims, one bat, one mouse, one cockroach, one spider, and one rat. They've just had lunch and they've each eaten their favorite type of food. The things eaten were fish, cheese, cake, cookies, bread, mushrooms, and shrimp in cream sauce.

The bat's favorite food is either mushrooms or cake. Cookies are not the cockroaches favorite food. The mouse will eat cheese, but she didn't today. The human who swim's favorite food is either cookies or shrimp in cream sauce. The mushrooms and cookies were not eaten by mammals. The human who flies' favorite food is either cake or bread.

Who ate the cheese?

• One of the Humans

• The Bat

• The Rat

• The Cockroach

• The Mouse

My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today. What am I?

• A River

• A Breeze

• A Current

• A Flow

It's always 1 to 6,

It's always 15 to 20,

It's always 5,

But it's never 21,

Unless it's flying.

What Am I?

• Numbers

• A Die

• Money

• Branches On A Tree

There are 3 suspects, 1 locked up, 1 guilty, 2 trying to help, 4 dead, 6 who don't know anything. Most of them ate truth food, one didn't. The guilty person ate pasta that night. The 3 suspects ate pizza. The person locked up got hot tea. The 2 trying to help ate peaches. The 4 dead got parsley in their graves. The 6 who didn't know anything ate pandoro.

Who got away from eating truth food?

• The One Who Is Guilty

• One Of The Suspects

• The One Locked Up

• One Of The Six Who Didn't Know What Was Going On

• One Of The People Trying To Help

In 2000, a 40-year-old doctor told his son that when a little boy he decided to be a doctor by seeing a internet web site about performing a heart transplant on a puppy with a defective heart so that the puppy would live a normal life. I then thought that I would be a doctor so that I could help people in a similar way.

What is the defect in this story?

• The boy grew up to be a veterinarian, and not a doctor.

• The doctor didn't really tell his son that, because he didn't have a wife.

• The puppy died after they thought it would survive a normal life.

• The internet did not exist when the doctor was a little boy.

If there is a puzzle with 11 pieces, one with 23 and one with 7.

How old was the person putting them together?

• 6

• 41

• 18

• 27

A prisoner is told "If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you."

What can he say to save himself?

• He'll make up a reasonable lie.

• You will hang me.

• You will shoot me.

• He'll run away as fast as he can.

• He'll ask. "So...what if I don't say anything at all?"

Suppose you want to send in the mail a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is big enough to hold the object. The box has a locking ring which is large enough to have a lock attached and you have several locks with keys. However, your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. You cannot send the key in an unlocked box since it may be stolen or copied.

How do you send the valuable object, locked, to your friend - so it may be opened by your friend?

• Your friend has a spare key already.

• Send the box with a lock attached and locked. Your friend attaches his or her own lock and sends the box back to you. You remove your lock and send it back to your friend. Your friend may then remove the lock he/she put on and open the box.

• Your friend will receive it and find a hidden message on how to open without a key, but that friend will have to travel to a dangerous place to do so. If he/she survives, then your friend will---hopefully---find a way to open the box.

• Your friend will smash the box, but risk damage to the item inside.

I have ten or more daughters. I have less than ten daughters. I have at least one daughter. If only one of these statements is true, how many daughters do I have?

• I have ten daughters.

• I have more than ten daughters.

• I have no daughters.

• I have one daughter.

• I have less than ten daughters.

How many triangles are in this photo?

• 5

• 25

• 14

• 1

• 24