Good Riddles

 

By Martin Gardner

Question: You are in a room with two metal rods and no other metal. One of them is magnetized and the other is not.

How can you determine which one is magnetized and which is not?

Riddle #698 (medium)

Question: Thomas is traveling through Germany and stops at a store to use the bathroom. The only problem is he cannot tell which bathroom is for males and which is for females. He finds somebody to ask which is which, but Thomas doesn't speak German. The person he finds can understand English but can only speak and respond in German.

Thomas really has to go to the bathroom, so what two yes or no questions can he ask to figure out which bathroom is which?

Which Path (medium)

Question: You are walking down a path until there is a fork in the road. One side is the good path and the on the other side is the bad path. However you don't know which one is which. Both paths have identical twins guarding the paths. One guard tells the truth, the other lies all the time no matter what. But still you don't know which one tells the truth or which one tell lies. If you want to to go to the good path, what question should you ask the guards

Riddle #439 (medium)

Question: What word doesn't belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?

Question: I have a tongue but cannot taste.
I have a soul but cannot feel.

What am I?