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Here Are the riddles to puzzle the mind... The Answer is In The Arrows

A big Indian and a little Indian are walking down the street. The little Indian is the son of the big Indian but the big Indian is not the father of the little Indian. How is this possible?

>>> The big Indian is the little Indian's mother. <><>< What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days? >>> The letter "n." <><>< One cigarette can be made from four butts (stubs). If a man smokes 16 cigarettes, how many more can he make? >>> 5. 4 from the 16 cigarettes and 1 more from the stubs of the 4 he made. <><>< Amoebas reproduce by splitting in two. An amoeba which does so every minute is placed in a jar at exactly ten o'clock in the morning. At 12:00 noon the jar is full. At what time is the jar half full? >>> 11:59 <><>< 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? >>> You will hang me. <><>< Looking at a picture a man says "Brothers and sisters I have none but that man's father is my father's son." Whose picture is it? >>His son's <><>< I have two coins making 55 cents but one is not a nickel. How can that be? >>> Only one is not a nickel, because it is a 50 cent piece. The other is a nickel. <><>< The two sons of an Arab sheik were each overwhelmingly proud of their own horse. When the sheik died he left instructions that they have a race and the one whose horse loses the race would inherit his fortune. They started to race at full speed but gradually slowed down and stopped, not knowing what to do. A passing traveller heard their story and advised them whereupon they jumped on the horses and raced as fast as they could to the finish line. What was the advice? >>> Switch horses. Thus, the horse of the brother who wins, will actually be the horse that loses. <><>< Why are 1977 dollars worth more than 1976 dollars? >>> Because $1977.00 is more than $1976.00. <><>< A boat will carry only 200 pounds. How can a man weighing 200 pounds and his 2 sons, each weighing 100 pounds, use the boat to cross a river? >>> First the 2 sons cross the river together. 1 son then re-crosses the river to take the boat back to the man. The man then crosses the river The other son then re-crosses river. Both sons then cross the river, and everyone is now on the other side. <><>< A bottle and a cork together cost $1.50. the bottle costs $1.00 more than the cork. How much does each cost? >>> The bottle costs $1.25 and the cork costs $0.25. <><>< Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what have you got? >>> 2 apples. <><>< There are three errers in the statement of this problem. You must detect all of them to recieve full credit. >>> Errors is spelled incorrectly (spelled "errers" in the problem). Receive is spelled incorrectly (spelled "recieve" in the problem). The third error is that there are only two errors, not three. <><>< You have 12 black sox and 12 white sox mixed up in a drawer. How many sox must you pull out - blindly -to be sure of getting a matching pair? >>> 3 socks. For example, let's say that the first sock is black. The second could be black, in that case you would have a matching pair. Or the second sock could be white. Then the third sock would either be black and make a matching pair, or white and make a matching pair. <><>< A barbecue grill holds two steaks at a time. It takes ten minutes to grill one side of a steak. What is the shortest amount of time it will take to grill three steaks on both sides? >>> 30 minutes. First grill one side of two steaks for 10 minutes. Then flip over the first steak. Set aside the second steak for now, and grill one side of the third steak. Grill them for 10 minutes. Now the first steak is done. Put the second steak back on and grill the other side, and flip over the third steak. Grill for 10 more minutes. All 3 steaks will be grilled in 30 minutes. <><>< Villains always lie, good guys always tell the truth. You see three men on the road and you ask the first one "What are you, a villain or a good guy?" You cannot make out his mumbled answer so you ask the second man "What did he say?" The second man responds "He said he is a villain." The third man says "The second man is lying." What is each of the men? A good guy or a villain? >>> First man is a good guy. Second man is a villain. Third man is a good guy.

If the first man was a good guy, then he would have told the truth and said that he was a good guy. If the first man was a villain then he would have lied and said that he was a good guy. Thus, the first man could not have said he was a villain and the second man is lying. Thus, the second man is a villain. The third man is telling the truth, thus he is a good guy. And since the second man was lying when he said that the first man said he was a villain, the first man must be a good guy. <><>< A woman with no driver's license goes the wrong way on a one-way street and turns left at a corner with a no left turn sign. A policeman sees her but does nothing. Why? >>> She's a pedestrian or bicyclist. <><>< You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely? >>> Take over the chicken first. Go back and take over the grain next, but instead of leaving the chicken with the grain, come back with the chicken. Now leave the chicken on the first side, but take the fox with you and leave it on the other side with the grain. Now go back over and get the chicken to bring over for the final time. <><>< >

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