top button
Flag Notify
    Connect to us
      Site Registration

Site Registration

What did he find wrong with the man's statement?

+1 vote
431 views

Emperor Akbar once ruled over India. He was a wise and intelligent ruler, and he had in his court the Nine Gems, his nine advisors, who were each known for a particular skill. One of these Gems was Birbal, known for his wit and wisdom. The story below is one of the examples of his wit. Do you have it in you to find out the answer?

There was once a blacksmith who used to make spears and shields. He came to Emperor Akbar's court and claimed - "Your Majesty, nobody can make shields and spears like mine. My shields are so strong that nothing can pierce them and my spears are so sharp that there is nothing they cannot pierce."

On hearing this statement, Birbal immediately said, "You lie and I can prove that you are lying." What did he find wrong with the man's statement?

posted Jun 23, 2015 by Amarvansh

Share this puzzle
Facebook Share Button Twitter Share Button LinkedIn Share Button

2 Answers

+3 votes

contradictory statement..

answer Jul 9, 2015 by Lakshmi Ramprakash
+2 votes

Contradictory statements.
My shields are so strong that nothing can pierce them.
and my spears are so sharp that there is nothing they cannot pierce.

answer Jul 31, 2015 by Jyoti Mhaske



Similar Puzzles
+1 vote
A cracker company was very mad when they heard the results from their cracker survey.......How did he come up with that?

A cracker company was very mad when they heard the results from their cracker survey. The result said that the customers would prefer crackers to nothing at all. The same customers think that donuts are better than everything else.

A new employee at the company had to tell their boss the bad news, but he saw a window of opportunity to get a promotion. When he got to his boss, he told him that the customers really preferred crackers to donuts.

How did he come up with that?

+2 votes
The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?

A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.

The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.

The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.

The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?

0 votes
Can you spot what’s wrong with the following sentence?

Can you spot what’s wrong with the following sentence?

PETER WAS ANGRY AT
HIMSELF BECAUSE HE
ACCIDENTALLY LEFT THE
THE KEYS TO HIS CAR
AT HIS FRIEND’S HOUSE.

+1 vote
How can that be possible if he did not use any kind of parachute and did not land on a soft surface ?

A man was gazing through the window of the 33rd floor of the building. He suddenly opened the window and jumped on the other side of the window. On landing the floor, there was not a sheer mark of injury on him.
How can that be possible if he did not use any kind of parachute and did not land on a soft surface ?

...