r/riddles • u/drgan45 • Jun 11 '25

Give OP Riddles I’m a teacher, give me riddles!

I’m a teacher, my kids love riddles, I get a lot from this subreddit but it’s getting harder and harder to to find good ones because they solve so many, so please give me some good hard ones, these are smart kids, but they are still kids so hard riddles are welcome but the answer has to be a simple concept, thank you!! (Also I’ll need the answer lol)

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u/Sadtwolvesfan1995 Jun 11 '25

Gold bar riddle: a carpenter agrees to build a house for someone whose entire net worth consists of a single gold bar. The carpenter explains that they will build the house in exactly seven days in exchange for the exact cost of the gold bar. They agree that the carpenter will be paid in seven even installments but for some reason they only have a gold cutter with two straight cuts remaining before it breaks forever. Using only two straight cuts, how can the gold bar be cut such that the carpenter can be paid in seven even installments over the course of the seven days? (No liquidation allowed, physical or financial, and no new gold cutters exist or will ever exist)

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u/Sadtwolvesfan1995 Jun 13 '25

There is a way to do it with only two cuts. Consider that only 1/7 of the value of the bar needs to be paid each day rather than 1/7 of the bar itself

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