1. Logic Puzzles

These baffling brainteasers are sure to tickle your neurons. Put your powers of deduction to the test with these puzzling problems.

Q1: After wandering around the Big Buddha all afternoon, a lost tourist can’t figure out the way to get to the Ngong Ping Three-Sixty gift shop. At a fork in the road, he meets two tour guides, but he doesn’t know which tour guide belongs to a group who can only tell lies, and which tour guide belongs to a group that can only tell
the truth. He can only ask one tour guide one question before being forced to buy an overpriced golden bauhinia keychain. What is the one question he can ask to ensure that he’ll know which path to take to the gift shop?

Q2: A man has to transport a Post-80s protester, a government bureaucrat and an expensive bottle of Taupenot Merme Charmes Chambertin 2006 across the harbor in the Star Ferry. However, he can only take himself and one item at a time. If he leaves the bureaucrat and the wine alone together on either side of the harbor, the bureaucrat will make a toast to the Central Chinese Government and then drink all the wine. However, if he leaves the Post-80s protester alone with the bureaucrat, the bureaucrat will be pelted with flour. How can he move all his items safely across the water?

Q3: A mainland mother on her way to give birth at a Hong Kong hospital becomes stuck in a 20-foot immigration queue. For every minute she is in the queue, she moves forward three feet, but then goes back two feet. With only 37 minutes to go before her water breaks, will she make it past the border in time?

2. The True Hongkonger Trivia Test

Think you’re a true-blue Hong Kong native? Well, see how you do in our trivia quiz that any card-carrying SAR citizen should be able to ace. See if you can solve them!