Had an interview where I did well in DSA and computer fundamentals, but at the end of round 2 the interviewer asked this:

A man is found dead in a locked room with no windows. The only things in the room are a puddle of water and a chair. How did he die?

I froze. Wasted a few minutes asking irrelevant questions instead of thinking it through logically. Definitely left a worse impression than any DSA question would have.

Got me thinking — we spend hundreds of hours on LeetCode and basically zero on this kind of logical/lateral thinking, even though a lot of interviewers use riddles specifically to see how you think under pressure.

So I built RiddlesMaster (riddlesmaster.com) — free, has a new riddle daily with full solutions, tagged by company and difficulty. Still early but figured this community would actually use it.

Try today's one before scrolling for hints 👀