Test your skills of deduction with the July 2025 edition of Riddle Me This: The Bird that Broke the Camel’s Back
A 1-ton truck must cross a bridge that can hold no more than 1 ton. The truck is empty but barely weighs 1 ton. As it’s halfway across the bridge, a bird weighing 20 grams lands on it. Will the bridge collapse?
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Is this even a riddle?
How many pounds are in barely a ton?
…now if the bird would have landed on an electric truck………
Structural engineers design to bending not failure. 2000 pounds plus 20grams will not overload a 1-ton bridge to failure.
Barely a ton? No mention of safety factors? Do you know your audience?
An African or European Swallow?
These riddles seem like they were initially generated in another language and translated or by or AI.