puzzle

puzzle 1#

You are in a cookie factory, and need to make a huge batch of chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for exactly 4 cups of sugar. Problem is that you have two buckets. One bucket holds 5 cups, the other 3 cups. Using these buckets, how can you measure exactly 4 cups of sugar?

puzzle 2#

Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?

puzzle 3#

Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

puzzle 4#

Before the days of motor cars, a man rode into town on his horse. He arrived on Sunday, spent three days in town and left on Sunday. How is that possible?

puzzle 5#

What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, , , __

puzzle 6#

A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?

puzzle 7#

In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days? 