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Logic Puzzles

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  • A traveller has a 7-link gold chain. He must pay one link a day for 7 days. What’s the minimum number of cuts?

  • A boy has as many sisters as brothers. Each of his sisters has only half as many sisters as brothers. How many children in the family?

  • I come from the sky but I am not a bird. I make things grow but I am not the sun. What am I?

  • I have no wings but I fly. I have no eyes but I make people cry. What am I?

  • I get shorter the longer I live. What am I?

  • I speak without a mouth and I only ever repeat. What am I?

  • The day before yesterday I was 22. Next year I’ll be 25. When is my birthday?

  • Common myth: dropping a penny from the Eiffel Tower will kill someone below. Will it?

  • The North Pole of a compass needle points to Earth’s North Pole. So what does that make Earth’s North Pole — magnetically?

  • Botanically speaking, is a banana a fruit or a berry?