#SIMPLE MATH RIDDLES PLUS#

There’s something common between the numbers 11, 88, and 96, what is it?Īns: You may rotate them 180° or upside down, and they will still look the same.Ĩ5. How many times can you take 10 away from 100?Īns: Once, because after you take 10 away from 100, it becomes 90.Ĩ4. Which one weighs more – two half-pound bars of chocolate or 16 one-ounce bags of candy?Ĩ3. How many goats does the farmer have now?Ĩ2. One day, after a storm, all but nine ran away. The answer is correct, but how?Īns: When it’s 9 pm, add 5 hours to it and you’ll get 2 pm. If you can buy 8 eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?Ĩ0. I’m more than 500, and my digits are in descending order. From 300, 150, 750, 385, 382, 270, 280, and 630, my hundreds digit is odd, my tens digit is my biggest digit, and my one’s digit is less than 2. My tens digit is one less than my hundreds digit, and I’m more than 600. From 1320, 874, 729, 628, 572, 986, 765, and 387, I’m a three-digit number whose hundreds digit is odd, but I’m an even number. From 236, 337, 258, 463, 873, 382, 719, and 425, I’m an odd number whose hundreds digit is even, and the tens digit is in the 3 times table. From 73, 25, 58, 79, 37, and 82, I’m an odd number that’s more than 5 tens and less than 8 tens.

If it took 7 people 10 hours to build the doghouse, how long will it take 15 people to build the same doghouse?Īns: None, because the dog house is already built.ħ4. If you were to pay someone exactly $83 with only 7 bills and no $1 bills, how would you pay?Īns: Four $2 bills, one $5 bill, one $20 bill, and one $50 billħ3.

#SIMPLE MATH RIDDLES PLUS#

If Albert is 90 centimeters plus half his height, how tall is he?ħ2. How do you get 720 from 98 using just one letter?Īns: Add an “x” between “ninety” and “eight”. Using only addition, how can you add eight 8s to get the number 1,000?ħ0. It’s the sum of the total sides of two triangles.

This digit is less than 9 and more than 3. Pam’s sister is 4 years younger and so 14-4=10.Ħ6. When Pam was 8, her sister was half her age. They weigh the same! 1kg is 1kg, no matter the product.Ħ5. What weighs more – a kilo of feathers or a kilo of iron?Īns: Neither. If there are five chocolates and you take four, how many chocolates do you have?Ħ4. What number am I?Īns: Three (half of 2 is 1. If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always be the same. At what point do parallel lines meet?Īns: Never. Turn this equation into a multiplication problem 5+5+5+5=20Ħ0.

How old will your uncle be when you are 23?ĥ8. You’re 8 years old, and your uncle is 53. What’s the total?Īns: Typically, everyone calculates 5,000, but the answer is 4,100.

Simple math riddles