11 Hard-to-Solve Riddles from the 18th Century

We may think we’re way smarter than people of 300 years ago, being able to find almost any information in a matter of moments. But how will we get on without the Internet? Some of them posed a real challenge to us. Check them out for yourselves! Other videos you might like: 35 Best Detective Riddles Only the Smartest 2% Can Crack    • 35 Best Detective Riddles Only the Sm...   18 Tricky Riddles That'll Stretch Your Brain    • 18 Tricky Riddles That'll Stretch You...   If You Solve 20 Riddles In 15 Seconds, You Are Super Smart    • If You Solve 20 Riddles In 15 Seconds...   TIMESTAMPS: #1. How do you fill two sacks with coffee from another sack of a similar size? 0:15 #2. Two people are eating plums. If the first give the other 2 plums, they'll be equal. If the second gives the other 2 plums, he'll have twice as many. How many plums does each have? 1:02 #3. Birds sat one on each tree, and one didn't have a place. But when they sat two on each, one tree was left free. How many birds and trees? 2:23 #4. Question: "What time is it?" Answer: "Half the time after midnight is 3/4 time left before noon." What's the time? 3:25 #5. 2 fathers and two sons caught 3 hares. Each got one. How? 4:50 #6. Write a number that consists of 11 thousands, 11 hundreds, and 11 digits. 5:37 #7. The ducks fly. One ahead and two behind. One behind and two ahead. One between two and three in a row. How many ducks overall? 6:23 #8. "How old is your son?" "If you take my son's age and add that and a half, you'll get 10." How old is he? 7:10 #9. An old man was 100 years and a few months old, but he'd only had 25 birthdays. How could this be? 7:56 #10. The children had 130 huts and had to divide them into 2 parts so that 4 times the lesser part would equal 3 times the larger part. How many nuts would be in each part? 8:39 #11. Move only one matchstick to make a square. 10:02 Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz For copyright matters please contact us at: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook:   / brightside   Instagram:   / brightgram   5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices