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Riddle: If there are four apples and you take away three, how many do you have?
Answer: You took three apples, so you have three!
 Riddle: A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long
tunnel. How long will it take the train to travel through the tunnel?
Answer: Two minutes. It takes the front of the train one minute, and the rest of the train will
take two minutes to clear the tunnel.
 Riddle: A cellphone and a phone case cost $110 in total. The cell phone costs $100 more than
the phone case. How much was the cellphone?
Answer: $105 (not $110)
 Riddle: Robert and David played several golf matches against each other in a week. They
played for a pizza at each match, but no pizzas were purchased until the end of the week. If
Robert and David had the same number of wins at any time, those pizzas were canceled. Robert
won four matches (but no pizzas), and David won three pizzas. How many rounds of golf were
played?
Answer: 11
Explanation: David won seven matches — four to cancel out Robert’s four wins and three more
to win the pizzas.
 Riddle: I am a three-digit number. My second digit is four times bigger than the third digit.
My first digit is three less than my second digit. Who am I?
Answer: 141
 Riddle: I add five to nine and get two. The answer is correct, but how?
Answer: When it is 9 a.m., add five hours to it, and you will get to 2 p.m.
 Riddle: There are 100 pairs of dogs in a zoo; a pair of babies are born for each dog.
Unfortunately, 23 of the dogs have not survived. How many dogs are left in total?
Answer: 977 dogs
Explanation: 100 x 2 = 200; 200 + 800 = 1,000; 1,000 – 23 = 977
 Riddle: A group of students were standing in the blazing sun facing due west on a march past
event. The leader shouted at them: Right turn! About turn! Left turn! At the end of these
commands, which direction are the students facing now?
Answer: East
Explanation: They will turn 90 degrees in a right turn and then 180 degrees in an about-turn,
and finally turn 90 degrees in a left turn. Therefore, the students are now facing east.
 Riddle: A half is a third of it. What is it?
Answer: 1 1/2
 Riddle: At the time of shipping, Tom can place 10 small boxes or eight large boxes into a
carton. A total of 96 boxes were sent in one shipment. The number of small boxes was less than
the large boxes. What is the total number of cartons he shipped?
Answer: 11 cartons
Explanation: Four small boxes (410 = 40 boxes) + seven large boxes (78 = 56 boxes). So, 96
boxes and 11 total cartons.
 Riddle: When Miguel was 6 years old, his little sister, Leila, was half his age. If Miguel is 40
years old today, how old is Leila?
Answer: She is 37 years old.
 Riddle: You are given three positive numbers. You can add these numbers and multiply them
together. The result you get will be the same. What are the numbers?
Answer: One, two, and three.
 Riddle: If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will half
a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?
Answer: Two dozen
 Riddle: What can you put between a seven and an eight so that the result is greater than a
seven but less than an eight?
Answer: A decimal because 7.8 is greater than seven but less than eight.
 Riddle: Tom was asked to paint numbers outside 100 apartments, which means he will have
to paint numbers one through 100. How many times will he have to paint the number eight?
Answer: 20 times
Explanation: (8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 98)
 Riddle: What’s the maximum number of times you can subtract five from 25?
Answer: Only once. This is because when you subtract five the first time, 25 becomes 20, then
15, and so on.
 Riddle: Which weighs more, 16 ounces of soda or a pound of solid gold?
Answer: Neither. They both weigh the same!
 Riddle: Leon works at the aquarium. When he tries to put each turtle in its own tank, he has
one turtle too many. But if he puts two turtles per tank, he has one tank too many. How many
turtles and how many tanks does Leon have?
Answer: He has three tanks and four turtles.
 Riddle: The total cost of a pair of shoes and a hoodie is $150. The hoodie cost $100 more
than the pair of shoes. How much does each item cost?
Answer: The hoodie costs $125, and the shoes cost $25.
 Riddle: You have two U.S. coins with a total value of 30 cents. One of them is not a nickel.
What are the two coins?
Answer: One is a quarter, and one is a nickel.
 Riddle: Eggs are 12 cents a dozen. How many eggs can you get for a dollar?
Answer: 100 eggs for a penny each
 Riddle: A duck was given $9, a spider was given $36, and a bee was given $27. Based on this
information, how much money would be given to a cat?
Answer: $18 ($4.50 per leg)
 Riddle: “How much is this bag of potatoes?” asked the man. “Thirty-two pounds divided by
half of its own weight,” said the grocer. How much did the potatoes weigh?
Answer: 8 lbs
 Riddle: I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is six more than my ones digit. My hundreds
digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Answer: 193
 Riddle: A man is twice as old as his little sister. He is also half as old as his dad. Over a
period of 50 years, his sister’s age will become half of their dad’s age. What is the age of the
man now?
Answer: 50 years old
 Riddle: How can you add eight fours together so the total adds up to 500?
Answer: 444 + 44 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 500
 Riddle: If seven people meet each other and each shake hands only once with each of the
others, how many handshakes happened?
Answer: 21
 Riddle: If four men can build four tables in four hours, how many can eight men build in
eight hours?
Answer: 16 tables
 Riddle: When Lisa was 6 years old, her sister Lucy was half her age. If Lisa is 40 years old
today, how old is Lucy?
Answer: 37
Explanation: Lucy is three years younger than Lisa.
 Riddle: If you buy a rooster to lay eggs and you expect to get three eggs each day for
breakfast, how many eggs will you have after three weeks?
Answer: None. Roosters don’t lay eggs.
 Riddle: A farmer has 19 sheep on his land. One day, a big storm hits, and all but seven run
away. How many sheep does the farmer have left?
Answer: Seven. All but seven ran away.
 Riddle: A grandmother, two mothers, and two daughters went to a baseball game together
and bought one ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total?
Answer: Three tickets
Explanation: The grandmother is also a mother, and the mother is also a daughter. 
 Riddle: There is a clothing store in Dallas. The owner has made his own method of pricing
items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15, and a blouse costs $30. Using the
method, how much would a pair of underwear cost?
Answer: $45
Explanation: The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to spell the
item.
 Riddle: If you go to the movies and you’re paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the
movies twice or two friends to the movies at the same time?
Answer: It’s cheaper to take two friends at the same time.
Explanation: In this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same
friend twice, you are purchasing four tickets.
Leonardo earns € 15 an hour. He works 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday. He works 4
hours on Saturdays. How much does he earn a week?
Answer: € 460,- is incorrect!

Solution:
Leonardo works (5 * 8 hours) + 4 hours = 40 + 4 hours= 44 hours per week
44 * € 15,- = € 660,-

 € 460,-
 € 520,-
 € 600,-
 € 660,-
Aristotle solves an equation in 3 minutes and 42 seconds. Pythagoras does this twice as
fast. Leonardo needs 42 seconds more than Pythagoras. How much time does Leonardo
need?
Answer: 2 min 32 sec is incorrect!

Solution:
Time Pythagoras = 3 min 42 sec / 2 = 1 min 51 sec
Time Leonardo = 1 min 51 sec + 42 sec = 2 min 33 sec

 2 min 30 sec
 2 min 31 sec
 2 min 32 sec
 2 min 33 sec
Leonardo arrives 12 minutes too late for the 14:12 train from Pisa to Milan. This train
runs every hour at 12 minutes past the hour. How long must he wait for the next train?
Answer: 48 min is correct!
 12 min
 24 min
 48 min
 60 min