Long Riddles and Answers

Question: Mary was driving home from the countryside. She stopped by a grocery store to get some food. When she walked out of the store, her car was gone. She called the police right away. The police found her car near the bank and held three suspects. Suspect 1: A chubby man with fitness clothes on. Suspect 2: A woman with money in her hand. Suspect 3: A man with dirt on his pants.

Question: You are a prisoner. The only way to escape the prison is to walk down a very long hallway that takes 2 hours to get through. Guards come out of a door halfway down the hall every hour and take any prisoners walking out back to the prison and escort any visitors out of the prison. The guards cannot tell the difference between prisoners and visitors.

How do you escape?

Question: There're two people in front of you: your friend and an imposter looking exactly like your friend. There's no way to determine who is who by asking questions, they know the same information about you. You have only one bullet in your gun. If you kill or injure the imposter, you and your friend will be saved, If you're wrong, he'll kill you immediately. How will you know?

Question: You are trying to get your chicken, fox, and wheat to the barn. However, the barn is on the other side of the river. You are on a boat and can only transport one animal or wheat at a time. You must choose carefully not to leave the wrong two together, though. It's either the fox will eat the chicken or the chicken will eat the wheat. How do you take each thing across safely?

Question: Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a sports car; behind all of the others is bicycles. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 2, revealing a bicycle. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 3?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?