Today we are going to do something a little bit different and see if it’s true what
they say that The Infographics Show audience is the smartest on youtube by testing your
intelligence with a series of puzzles.
While these puzzles don’t usually come with video, we are hoping the visual cues might
be helpful.
We should tell you that none of these questions have outrageous answers and you should be
able to find the solution by employing practical wisdom.
The best thing to do would be to listen to the puzzle and then pause the video while
you try and come up with a solution.
Give yourself five or ten minutes and put what you think is the answer in the comments,
but no cheating!
We’ll know if you do.
And if you just don’t know the answer then that’s okay, just move on to the next one.
We’ll give you the solution after we’ve asked the question.
We’ll start with the easiest ones to get warmed up and we’ll leave the hardest until
last.
Let’s get started!
The Light Switch Problem Ok, so here’s the scene.
You have a big problem.
You are being kept against your will in a room by people who are basically a bit sadistic.
They are going to give you a problem to solve and if you can’t do it they will kill you.
The problem is, you are in a room far from another room you have to get to.
To get to this other room you have to walk down a winding corridor.
In that other room there is a light bulb.
In the room where you are sitting with these guys there are three light switches.
Switches A, B and C. One of them turns on the light, and only one.
You can do what you want with those switches, turn them all on, on and off, whatever you
want, but when you get to the lightbulb room you must be able to say which switch, A, B,
or C, turns on the bulb.
Remember, this room is far away, you cannot see any light at all from where the switches
are.
Also remember, if you just do something like turn on all the lights you won’t be able
to say which switch turned the light on.
Once you reach the bulb room you can never go back to the switches.
Ok, so think about that and we’ll come back with the answer.
BREAK Did you get it?
The way not to die is pretty simple really.
First you turn on switch A and leave it on for about 15 minutes.
Then you turn it off.
After that you turn on switch B and leave it on.
You then walk down to the room.
If the light is on it was switch B of course.
If it’s not on you feel the bulb.
Is it warm?
If so, it was switch A. If it’s cold and off the answer is switch C.
The Elevator Guy Ok, so there's this guy who lives in an apartment
building.
Each day he comes down from floor 10 and goes to work.
On the days when others are in the elevator when he comes home from work he goes directly
to his floor.
No problem.
But on some days when it is quiet he only goes to floor 7 and then he walks up the stairs
the rest of the way.
On some occasions when it is rainy he has also gone right up to floor ten.
The question is, why does he sometimes only go to floor seven and walk the rest of the
way?
The simple answer is this guy is very short and he can only reach as high as the button
to floor seven.
When it rains he has his umbrella and he can hit the floor 10 button with it.
The Fortune A very rich father in the Middle East is going
to die, but before he dies he tells his two sons that they will compete by riding a camel
each to a city.
The camel that gets to the city slowest wins.
Yes, you heard that right, it’s the camel that comes in last that wins.
What you think would happen, happens.
As these brothers don’t want to win they just end up riding around in the desert and
not really going anywhere.
It seems kind of futile as none of them wants to reach the city.
But then they meet a wise man, and that wise man tells them something.
The brothers listen and suddenly they both head to the city as fast as they can?
What did the wise man say?
The wise man said to them, switch camels.
The reason of course is they are now riding each other’s camel and so want to win as
their camel will be slowest and they will inherit the fortune.
Bankruptcy Ok, you might hate us for this one but at
least it’s short.
A man pushes his car to a hotel and when there he tells the owner of that hotel that he is
bankrupt?
Why?
The answer is he is playing the game Monopoly.
Running A man left home running.
He ran for a bit and turned left, and then he ran for a bit more and turned left again.
He then ran the same distance again and turned left.
When he got home there were two masked men waiting for him.
Why?
The answer is he was playing baseball and the men were the catcher and the umpire.
The Amazing Dog This one is a bit more obvious because the
last ones were somewhat difficult.
A man is standing on one side of a river and his dog is on the other side of the river.
The man calls his dog and within a short amount of time the dog is at his side.
The only thing is, the dog is not wet and he made it across without the use of a boat
or anything else to float on.
How did the dog do it?
The river was frozen, of course.
The Riddle Here is a riddle for you.
“I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness.
You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses.
I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.”
We guess this was easy for you.
The answer is the letter ‘S’.
The Thing The person who makes this thing will never
use it.
The person who buys it has absolutely no use for it.
The person who does use it does not even know who he or she is.
What is the thing?
It’s a coffin.
A Bad Day at the Bar You and your friend are at a bar and you order
a drink.
Your friend got the same drink as you.
But on this occasion you are really thirsty and you drank five of those drinks really
fast.
Then after that your friend, still on his first drink, drops down dead.
You find out the drinks were poisoned.
But you had five of those things and your friend only had one.
How come it was him that died?
BREAK The answer is that it was the ice that was
poisoned.
You drank those drinks so fast that the ice didn’t have time to melt into the drink.
On the other hand, the ice totally melted for your slow-drinking buddy.
The Dead Girl
A girl is lying on the floor below a five story apartment building.
The people around seem to think she must have jumped to her death.
A detective then arrives on the scene and then decides to go into the building.
He walks up to the second floor and opens a window and flips a coin from that window.
He then goes to each other floor and does exactly the same.
He then comes down and says this woman did not take her own life.
How did he know?
The answer to this one is in the details.
He had to open that second floor window and then he did the same on the other floors.
That means she couldn’t have jumped.
The Ship
A captain of a Japanese ship has taken off his ring and put it on his table.
He then goes outside and when he comes back the ring is gone.
There could only be three men who could have taken the ring, so the captain asks them for
an alibi.
The first man said he was in the kitchen preparing dinner and couldn’t have taken the ring.
The second man said he was outside fixing the flag because someone had hung it upside
down.
The last man said he was in the engine room.
Now the captain knows it was the second man.
How?
A Japanese flag is a red circle in a white square, it can’t be hung upside down and
so that man was lying.
We guess you all got that one.
The Boxers
Two boxers are in a fight, and we are talking normal boxing and not boxing with kicking
or takedowns involved.
They go at it like crazy and then in the eighth round one of the boxers gets totally knocked
out.
The thing is, though, no man threw even one punch.
How come a boxer got knocked out then?
We are guessing you got this one, too.
The boxers weren’t men, they were women.
The Song A poor man walks into a bar and there he finds
a rich man.
He starts chatting with this man and tells him he knows every song in the world.
The poor man then says that he can find a song with any name in it that the rich man
can think of.
The rich man laughs, but seeing that his interlocutor is poor he tells him ok, find a song with
my daughter’s name in it.
If he can do that, he’ll give him all the money in his wallet which is about 1000 dollars.
Her name is Juliette Alexandria Tomchinsky.
After a short while the poor man walks out of the bar with the rich guy’s $1000.
How come?
The answer is the song Happy Birthday.
The Billiard Balls You are looking at seven billiard balls and
they all look the same, except one of those balls is slightly lighter than all the others.
You have a scale and you need to know which ball weighs less, but you can only use the
scale twice?
How do you find which ball is lighter?
First you take six balls and separate them into two groups of three.
You put each three on each side of the scale.
Obviously, if the scale is equal then the lighter ball is the seventh ball you held
back.
But let’s say one part of the scale is lighter.
Now you know one of those three balls on one side is the lighter one.
Then just weigh any two of those three balls against each other.
If the scale is balanced then the lighter ball is the one you held back.
If not, the scale will tell you which is the lighter ball.
The Gangsters Right, here is the hardest one and we imagine
no one will get it.
So, there’s this undercover cop and he wants to get inside an underground club so he can
infiltrate a gang.
Only to get in this club you must know the secret code.
You can’t just walk in.
The cop then sets up a microphone and camera close to the door to the club.
He does this when no one is around of course.
With that set up he starts to watch.
The next evening he sees a rather dangerous-looking man walk up to the door.
A little shutter opens and the guy inside says ‘twelve”, to which the gangster replies
“six”.
A bit later and another gangster walks up to the door and the man behind the shutter
says “six” and the gangster replies “three”.
The cop then is confident about how to get in.
When he walks up the door the man behind the shutter says “Ten” and so the cop knowingly
answers “five.”
He then sees a gun pointed at him.
What went wrong?
The cop assumed that the code was just halving the number.
Twelve to six and six to three.
But that wasn’t the case at all.
The gangsters were actually saying how many letters were in the word.
Ok, the last one.
We think it’s best to finish with something quite easy and then we’ll leave you feeling
good about yourself.
A man and a woman are having an argument about a barrel of wine.
The man keeps telling the woman that the barrel is more than half full.
The woman disagrees.
She says the man is an idiot because anyone could tell by looking in the barrel that it
is less than half full.
The question we want to ask you is this?
How could the man and woman know for sure who is right without using any kind of tools
and without removing any of the wine from the barrel?
The answer is this.
You tip the barrel on its side until the wine touches the lip of the container.
After that, you look inside?
If you can see the bottom of the barrel it is less than half full.
If you can’t see the bottom, it’s more than half full.
That’s the end of the argument.
Did you really do these without cheating?
If so, how many did you get right?
Tell us in the comments.
Now go watch “What Are The Weirdest Unsolved Internet Mysteries?” and see if your puzzle
solving skills can help solve some real life mysteries.
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