The Riddle of The Three Wise Men


Once upon a time there lived a very wise king. Because he knew that he was old, he decided to look for a successor. He found three men, and since only one of them could be king, he wanted to choose the wisest among them. He turned to them and said:
"Now everybody will close his eyes, and I will mark everybody's forehead eighter with a RED or a GREEN or a BLUE circle. I can choose the colors in any combination, and I can also choose the same color for everybody. After that you can open your eyes and look around. If you see a GREEN circle on any of the other's forehead, raise ONE of your hands, and if you can figure out what the color of your circle is, then raise BOTH your hands."
After he finished talking everybody closed his eyes, and the king marked everybody's forehead with a GREEN circle. The candidates opened their eyes, looked around, and each of them raised one hand. One minute passed, two minutes passed, and after 5 minutes one man raised BOTH his hands and said that he had a GREEN circle.
How did he figure it out?

The lions and the meat


There is an island far far away, where only lions live. Although these lions love meat, they have never eaten it. Once a piece of meat fell out of an airplane. If any lion eats this meat, he will get drowsy and fall asleep. While he's sleeping, he may become a victim, beacuse other lions regard him nothing but a piece of meat. If a lion eats him, then this lion falls asleep, and may become a victim, and so on. If no lion eats a sleeping lion in 4 hours, then he wakes up, and the life goes on. Eighter the meat eighter a sleeping lion can only be eaten by ONE lion, so they cannont be divided into any pieces.
Assuming that the lions are very-very smart, and absolutely similar to each other, and they really wanna eat meat, but on the other side they don't wanna die, tell me what is going to happen.

The problem of two doctors and two patients


There are two doctors who want to check up two patients, but they have only two gloves for this. How can they solve this if nobody wants to catch any disease from anybody. Attention, even doctor can get infected if they use the same gloves (and at the same time even patients can catch disease from each other if they are checked up by the same gloves).

Who owns the fish?


There are 5 houses in five different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same drink.
The question is........who owns the fish?
Hints:

  1. the Brit lives in the red house
  2. the Swede keeps dogs as pets
  3. the Dane drinks tea
  4. the green house is on the left of the white house
  5. the green house owner drinks coffee
  6. the person who smokes Pall Mal rears birds
  7. the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
  8. the man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
  9. the Norwegian lives in the first house
  10. the man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
  11. the man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
  12. the owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
  13. the German smokes Prince
  14. the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
  15. the man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water
Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the World could not figure it out.

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