You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer and a five-minute timer can you boil the egg for only two minutes?
Once the water is boiling, turn the three-minute timer and five-minute timer over. When the three-minute timer runs out, put the egg in the boiling water. When the five-minute timer runs out, two minutes have elapsed and it is time take the egg out of the water. You don’t need the four-minute timer for this riddle.
The following limerick has had the last word of each line scrambled. Can you figure it out?
In a snowstorm the plow wasn’t TWIFS,
So Jim was decidedly FIDFEM;
His street really ENDEDE
The plow, so he DAPELED,
But the driver did not get his FIDTR.
In a snowstorm the plow wasn’t SWIFT,
So Jim was decidedly MIFFED;
His street really NEEDED
The plow, so he PLEADED,
But the driver did not get his DRIFT.
Just draw the lines extending past the dots and their are many solutions. Here is one of them. This riddle is the reason for the phrase ‘thinking outside of the box’.