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  1. A Businessman reaches a road fork which leads to two cities. In one city the people always tell lies, and in the other city the people always tell the truth. The Businessman needs to conduct business in the city where everyone tells the truth and there is no cheating or lies. A man from one of the cities is standing in the middle of the fork, but there is no indication which city he belongs to. The Businessman approaches the man and asks him one question. From the answer that the man gives, the businessman knows which road to follow. What question did the Businessman ask?
  2. A magician is standing on a concrete floor holding a raw egg with his hand outstretched. Without the aid of any objects, he is able to drop the egg two feet without breaking it’s shell. How does he do it?
  3. What do these three have in common: Dogs, Diamonds, and Double Plays?
  4. What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?
  5. What are the science teacher’s favourite states?

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31 Responses to Hmmm…Can you solve this?

  1. mir sajjad June 3, 2015 at 5:41 AM #

    1.If u r human show me the road of truth ppl or say the way of liar ppl city 2.brick wont break by egg 3.D 4.E

    • mir sajjad June 3, 2015 at 5:42 AM #

      5.The state he lives in 😛

  2. Said Amraoui April 9, 2015 at 7:20 PM #

    If I asked your friend on the other road which one takes to the city of the truthful what will be his answer? He has to take the opposite one because if the man is a liar he will not quote his friends answer which is the right one he will lie and show the wrong one if the man is honest he quote the lies of his friend and show the wrong one so on all cases he takes the opposite to the answer. Hahaha

  3. Amina hassan January 26, 2015 at 11:30 PM #

    Come on Sara do tell us the answer of the first one please.

  4. sharad March 29, 2014 at 12:21 PM #

    ans?????????????

  5. sharad March 29, 2014 at 12:21 PM #

    ans plz???

  6. mody oury February 13, 2014 at 9:45 PM #

    1) He should ask the city of the liers
    4) Liquid, Gas Solide

  7. Sohail Qadir February 13, 2014 at 4:13 PM #

    1. Business man will ask from person that how many cities does this fork leads to? and which one is leading to true men land? from answer he can easily decide which road he should choose.

    2. If a normal height man (aprox. 5ft 8 inches tall) standing on concrete floor outstretches his hand then distance between concrete floor and hand will be more than 2 ft. Therefore if same man drops a raw egg then up to 2ft the egg will not break.

    3. D

    4. E

    5. States of material

  8. amresh January 29, 2014 at 9:39 PM #

    1. r u man ?
    2. he is standing at edge of swimming pool filled with water.
    3.
    4.dot
    5. solid liquid gas

  9. Sudershan January 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM #

    The Businessman will go to right way

  10. sk ashif akram January 10, 2014 at 10:46 AM #

    1.He will ask the person “What would be the answer of a man of other city if I ask where people always tell Truth?”

    In any case, the answer is the “Liar’s City”

    How??? The liar will lie the people of True city will tell the Truth, similarly the honest from True city will testifies which city lies!!

    So, he will take the Route of the “other City”.

    The Question can alternatively be based on Common Sense!!!Like asking Gender, Where Sun Rises but I guess the liar will be too clever to give wrong Answer!

    2.He is using his hand to catch to Egg.(Remember, it’s only 2 feet)

    3.Every Word starts with D.
    The Second Answer is Everything can be dear to some entities, like Dogs are dear to people, diamonds to ladies, double plays to baseball pitchers.

    4. It’s the letter of E.

    Mathematically Close Answer is a “Potential Infinity”

    5. Three states of Matter- Solid, Liquid and Gas.

    • Hodaa March 4, 2014 at 4:54 AM #

      Correct! 🙂

  11. Adil January 10, 2014 at 5:17 AM #

    1. He will ask the guy, “if I ask which way is the right from the city which has people who lies all the day what would that person answer. whatever answer he gives, he will go the opposite way.
    Here is how: If the person is from the lie city, he know if the business man would have asked the person from the other city (the true city) they would have told him the truth (to the good city) so he will lie and point to lie city.
    If the guy who was standing was from the true city, he know if the business man would ask the guy from the lie city, they would have lied so he would tell the truth and point to the wrong city again.
    2. He drops the egg on his other hand
    3.Letter D
    4. Letter E
    5. Solid, Liquid, Gas

  12. GOPAKUMAR January 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM #

    just ask which city he belongs to, just go in the direction he shows you.
    egg was made of iron.

  13. Arbab January 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM #

    Are you the man who stand between two cities?

  14. Dr. Abdul Hameed January 7, 2014 at 2:01 PM #

    1. If you ask the way to Lie telling people’s city to the your neigbour city which direction he will show?(go to that direction)
    2. Drop from one hand to another 2ft apart (or from same hand drop and catch down 2ft)
    3. D
    4.E
    5. Gas, Liquid, Solid

  15. ode January 7, 2014 at 1:34 PM #

    1. I will ask the man at the junction if he is a man or woman since I already know his gender.
    2. The magician must have conjured stone and not egg.
    3. D
    4. E
    5. Liquid, Solid and Gaseous states.

  16. Maher January 7, 2014 at 8:02 AM #

    1. I ask him, If I ask your neighbour which is the honest city what he will tell me? Whatever the answer business man should choose the opposite sife.
    2. He can drop from right hand to lefy hand with space 2 feet.
    3. D.
    4. E.
    5. Solif, liquid, and gas.

  17. kamla January 6, 2014 at 9:12 PM #

    answer 1 he ask the man do which city belongs him at the city which is at his left or at his right

  18. mghoneim January 6, 2014 at 4:23 PM #

    1 – the question is : What is the way to the city of liers?

  19. Rami January 6, 2014 at 2:27 PM #

    1. Ask the man which city is he from.
    2. He drops it into water
    3. The letter D
    4. The letter E
    5. Solid, liquid and gas

  20. Sameh January 6, 2014 at 2:20 PM #

    1- What way to the city where are everyone tells the truth? And he takes the othor way.
    2- Always, he will not breaking the concrete……
    3- letter “D”
    4- Letter “E”
    5- The states of materials (Liqid, Gas and Solid).

  21. Mohamed Haridy January 6, 2014 at 2:19 PM #

    waiting the answer of man in forked two wat

  22. vikas rai January 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM #

    1.are u man or woman??
    2.he will hold had at a position greater than 2 feet from floor, so when he drops egg it wont break up to 2 feet from his hand
    3.DOS
    4.sky
    5.liquid gas & solid..

    • vikas rai January 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM #

      4.E

  23. WAQAR Khan January 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM #

    1. he ll ask that ” If I ask from the other city guy ( Which one road is leading to the city of true telling people ) so what will be his answer?”

    so he’ll move on the opposite one.

    2. Concrete is very hard to break with an egg.

    3. D

    4. E

    5. Solid, Liquid, Gas

    • vikas rai January 6, 2014 at 2:04 PM #

      What if the person standing is from true telling place???

      • WAQAR Khan January 6, 2014 at 6:28 PM #

        both will show him the way to Lairs City.

        because the Truth telling people knew that the liars will show him the way to liars city .

        and the liars will also point towards the way to liars city.

        so he ll chose the other one.

        Simple

  24. saqib shahid January 6, 2014 at 12:48 PM #

    My be the person whom the man asked is belong to the lairs City.

  25. Shajeer January 6, 2014 at 12:35 PM #

    1. He should ask “If I ask the person from the other city, ‘the way to the true city’, what answer will he give.

  26. Dr. Nasser Zeidan January 6, 2014 at 12:30 PM #

    1. Are both ways lead to the same place ?

    2. Sure he can’t break concrete

    3. D

    4. E

    5. Liquid, gas and solid