Everyday Thinking Puzzles

Everyday Thinking Puzzles



  1. You see 3 houses. Each has a red door, a blue door, and a green door. How many doors in total ?


      Ans: 9 doors. (3 houses × 3 doors per house = 9 doors)



  1. If you enter a dark room with one match, and there’s a candle, a lamp, and a firewood, which do you light first ?


      Ans: The match. You need to light the match first before lighting anything else.



  1. You have 10 fingers on your hands. How many fingers on 10 hands ?


       Ans: 50 fingers (5 × 10 = 50 fingers, in a hand 5 fingers)



  1. If you borrow ₹100 from your friend and buy a ₹70 item, how much money do you have ?


       Ans: ₹30. You borrow ₹100, buy an item worth ₹70, so ₹100 - ₹70 = ₹30.



  1. A truck driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street and passes a cop. Why isn’t he stopped ?


       Ans: The truck driver is walking, not driving.



  1. A man pushes his car to a hotel and loses his fortune. What happened ?


      Ans: He was playing Monopoly. The hotel in the game made him lose his fortune.



  1. A girl fell off a 20 ft ladder but wasn’t hurt. How ?


      Ans: She fell from the bottom of the ladder. She wasn’t high up, so she wasn’t hurt.



  1. If you drop a white shirt into the Red Sea, what will it become ?


      Ans: It will still be white. The Red Sea doesn’t change the color of the shirt.



  1. Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat. Only 3 meals were ordered. How ?


      Ans: There are 3 people: A grandmother, her daughter, and her granddaughter. This way, the grandmother and daughter are the mothers, and the daughter and granddaughter are the daughters.



  1. You see a boat filled with people, but there isn’t a single person on board. How ?


       Ans: All the people on the boat are married. There’s not a "single" person on board.