As you may be aware, we made a video on “Riddles That Will Mess With Your Mind” a few months
ago, so if you would like to test your brain even more then feel free to give it a watch
after this video. With that shameless plug out the way, here are “5 Riddles That Will
Blow Your Mind”. I will give you 30 seconds to try and solve each riddle but if you do
need extra time to think, by all means pause the video and resume whenever you are ready.
Please be sure to leave a like and a comment and a massive thank you to all of you who
left some amazing comments in the last video. Let’s get right into this.
A father and his son were travelling in their car when suddenly they crashed. The father
was killed, however, the son survived but was badly injured. He was rushed to hospital
where he required surgery, however, when the doctor came in, the doctor said, “I can’t
operate on him, he’s my son.” Who is the doctor?
If you still can’t get your head around this riddle, you may just kick yourself. The
answer is quite simple really and usually overlooked for some reason. The doctor is
the boy’s mother. Since the boy’s father died in the crash, it certainly can’t be
him unless he was a ghost or something, so therefore it must be the boy’s mother who
is the doctor.
A police officer walks into a room with no windows and finds a dead man, who appeared
to have hanged himself from the ceiling. The police officer was left puzzled as there was
no chair or table beneath the man which he might have jumped off, of. All that was present
beneath the man was a puddle of water. How did the man manage to hang himself?
The “puddle of water” is the key part of this riddle that would lead you to solve
it and no, the man did not wet himself for those of you wondering. He was actually standing
on a block of ice. The man just simply played a waiting game for the ice to melt, hence
why a puddle of water was present at the scene.
At a crime scene, a dead body of a man lies on the floor with blood oozing out his head.
The dead man has a gun in his hand and a tape recorder is found by his side. One of the
investigators at the scene picks up the tape recorder and plays it. The following message
is heard, “I am tired of this life and so I have decided to relieve myself from the
worldly pains”. A gunshot soon follows. The investigator declares the investigation
as a murder investigation. Why?
All the clues seem to suggest that the man committed suicide, however, that is not the
case. If the man did kill himself, then how would he have been able to rewind the cassette?
Ahhh, are you following along now? Since the cassette was rewound to play the message from
the start, then it is clear that someone else must have killed the man, thus making this
investigation a murder investigation.
A man hijacks a plane carrying 10 passengers and lots of money. Before the plane took off,
the man asked government officials for 11 parachutes. He killed all the passengers on-board
so that no-one could identify him and then took one parachute and jumped out with the
money. Why did the man ask for 11 parachutes when he only needed 1?
It turns out that the man was incredibly clever to ask for 11 parachutes as opposed to 1.
By asking for 11 parachutes, government officials would have thought the man was jumping out
the plane with the hostages and so would not risk giving the man any faulty parachutes.
If the man asked for just 1 parachute, government officials would have believed that the parachute
was just for the man and could have tampered with it.
Four male prisoners were occasionally given chocolate for their hardships in jail. On
one day, 11 chocolates were given out to the prisoners, however, the prisoners don’t
know how many chocolates each of them had. So they decided to start a conversation:
Prisoner 1: “Prisoner 2, did you have more chocolates than me?”
Prisoner 2: “I don’t know. Hey, Prisoner 3, did you have more chocolates than me?”
Prisoner 3: “I don’t know.” Hearing the conversation, Prisoner 4 replies
to everyone. Prisoner 4: “I know exactly how many chocolates
each of you had.”
How many chocolates did each prisoner have?
If you worked your way through this riddle, then you would have found yourself with the
following answers: Prisoner 1: 1 chocolate
Prisoner 2: 2 chocolates Prisoner 3: 3 chocolates
Prisoner 4: 5 chocolates
Logic would have got you through this one. Prisoner 4 must have eaten 5 or more chocolates
since he did not ask the question, “Did you have more chocolates than me?”. Prisoner
1 can’t have eaten 5 or more chocolates so prisoner 1 must have eaten 1-4 chocolates.
Prisoner 2 must have eaten 2-4 chocolates since prisoner 1 asked him whether he had
more chocolates than him meaning prisoner 2 knew that prisoner 1 ate 1-4 chocolates
otherwise he would have said “No” if he had 1 chocolate. Prisoner 3 answered, “I
don’t know” when asked whether he had more chocolates by prisoner 2, so he would
have known that prisoner 2 must have eaten at least 2 chocolates. Going by the same logic
prisoner 2 went with, prisoner 3 must have known that prisoner 2 would have had at least
2 chocolates meaning he would have had 3 or 4 chocolates himself otherwise he would have
answered “No” if he had 2 chocolates. Lastly, prisoner 4 must have eaten 5 chocolates
which would add up to 11 chocolates between the 4 prisoners as he knew how many chocolates
each of the other prisoners had. Therefore, leaving prisoner 1 with one chocolate, prisoner
2 with two chocolates, prisoner 3 with three chocolates and prisoner 4 with five chocolates.