In this site you can find a selection of the most popular riddles and situation puzzles. Obviously, neither are here all who matter nor they matter all who are here. Some of them have been taken from the missing Snark list; others from books and other have been on my mind for a long time.
Every suggestion will be appreciated and included in this list.
Two of the riddles deserve special treatment, The riddle of the ages and the piano student is the one I always propose as a challenge. The other one is "Einstein's puzzle" —if you don't know it yet, I highly recommend it.
Riddles and situation puzzles are mixed because of the difficulty of dividing them correctly into two independent groups, as some of them could be included in both groups.
1.- A shepherd needs to take a wolf, a goat and a lettuce to the opposite bank of the river. He has a boat where he just fits along with one of the other things. If the wolf is left alone with the goat it will eat it; if the goat is left alone with the lettuce it will eat it. How should he do it?
When Einstein proposed this conundrum said 98 % of the world population would not be able to solve it.
Personally I think it's not so difficult to find the solution, it is only a matter of time and dedication , anyway you can see it.
The riddle goes like this:
There are 5 houses in five different colors and each a person of a different nationality lives.
Each of the owners drink a different drink , smoke a different brand of cigarettes and has a different pet.
We have the following keys:
And finally the question:
Who owns the goldfish ?