Some of us like to read long and Big Riddles. There can be many reasons for that. These riddles often keeps a situation in front of you and you have to apply your mind in various directions to find out the solution. The Big Riddles may also contain a story line which makes them pretty interesting to read. To solve such riddles, you also use your mind in different directions which helps in the mental growth. Thus we have come up with loads of Big Riddles just for the enthusiast who are always on a spree of finding them.

#241 - Jigsaw Game Of Death Riddle

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Jigsaw forced Mahrez and Vardy to play the game of death.
Jigsaw placed 11 marbles at the table and asked Mahrez and Vardy to pick marble(s) one by one with the following rules:
1. You need to pick at least one marble.
2. You can't pick more than five marbles.

The one that picks the last marble will die.

Mahrez to start the game.

How many marbles must Mahrez pick in order to make sure that he came out from the game alive?


category : LOGIC

#242 - Simple Logic Question

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A family is having a reunion on the Christmas Eve. For the toast which shall follow with the dinner, they gather around the dining table. There is a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one daughter in law and one mother in law who shall sit for the toast.

Each one of them requires a separate chair. How many chairs are required?
category : LOGIC

#243 - Find Hours Math Brain Teaser

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Murphy and Cooper are having the same amount of petrol in the petrol tanks of their respective cars. Murphy can drive for four hours with that amount whole Cooper can drive for five hours.

They both starts together and keep driving for a few hours. After some time, they find that the amount of petrol remaining in one car is four times that of the other car.

Using all these facts, can you find out how long they drove their cars?

#244 - The Better Proposal Puzzle

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A 12-year footballer Lavy was offered a contract with a club name "Flyball" that if he will practice 1 hour extra after school he will be offered 11$ after every week.
Lavy, however, suggested an alternative paid method in which
He will be paid just a penny on his first day.
Two pence will be paid on the second day,
Four pence will be paid on the third day.
And so on till 11th day.

Should the club accept the offer of Lavy?

category : LOGIC | MATHS

#245 - Dead Chemist Riddle - Byomkesh Bakshi

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A well-known chemist name from London was murdered while his visit to Calcutta(India).
He left a note "76-20-44 79-16-22-7"

A local detective Byomkesh Bakshi was called to solve the case,
Chemist five assistant is under suspicion of killing the chemist named :
Austin, Terry, Cole, Hazard, Oscaru, and Drogba.

After reading the note, Byomkesh Bakshi instantly asked the police to arrest the murderers.

Who are the murderers?

category : MYSTERY | SCIENCE

#246 - Weight Balance Riddle

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You can place weights on both side of weighing balance and you need to measure all weights between 1 and 1000. For example if you have weights 1 and 3,now you can measure 1,3 and 4 like earlier case, and also you can measure 2,by placing 3 on one side and 1 on the side which contain the substance to be weighed. So question again is how many minimum weights and of what denominations you need to measure all weights from 1kg to 1000kg.

#247 - Logical Marble Riddle

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There is a box which have 33 yellow marbles and 35 green marbles. You also have 34 green marbles outside the box.

Randomly remove two marbles from the box.
* If they are of different colors, put the yellow one back in the box.
* If they are the same color, take them out and put a green marble back in the box.

Repeat this until only one marble remains in the box.


What is the color of the sole marble left in the box ?
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#248 - Extremely Hard Civil Services Problem

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( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 30
This is what you have for equation. The following are the numbers that you can use to fill in the brackets:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

You can repeat the numbers if required. The resulting sum should be 30.

This question appeared in the UPSC final examination in December 2013. Out of all the people who appeared, only one guy was able to solve this namely Gaurav Agarwal.

Can you solve it?

#249 - Professor Frink Trick Puzzle

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Professor Frink(name of a person) is convicted in Germany. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say a last sentence in order to determine the way the penalty will be carried out. If he lies, he will be hanged, if he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. Professor Frink speaks the last sentence and to everybody surprise some minutes later he is set free because the judge cannot determine his penalty.

What did said?

#250 - Classic Pigeonhole Principle Puzzle

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You were hanging out in the New York City when a man in suit approached you. He said that he was ready to bet a hundred bucks to the fact that there are at least two people (excluding the bald people) in the City with same number of hairs.

Seeking the impossibility of the case, you thought of accepting the bet.

After the discussion of two minutes, you realized that you had lost the bet.

What did he say to prove his point?

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