🔢 Math Riddles

1. A grandfather, two fathers and two sons went to the movie theater together and everyone bought one movie ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total?👀 Answer 20+20+20=60. How can you make 60 again by using the same number 3 times, but it can’t be 20?👀 Answer 8, 5, 4, 9, 1, 7, 6, 3, 2 These numbers are in a specific order. What is the pattern?👀 Answer 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 A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?👀 Answer A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?👀 Answer A cell phone and phone case cost $110 in total. The cell phone costs $100 more than the phone case. How much was the cell phone?👀 Answer A duck was given $9, a spider was given $36, a bee was given $27. Based off of this information, how much money would be given to a cat?👀 Answer A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left alive?👀 Answer A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away. How many are left?👀 Answer A half is a third of it. What is it?👀 Answer A hobo picks up cigarette butts from the ground and can make a cigarette with 4 butts. If he finds 16 cigarette butts, how many cigarettes can he make?👀 Answer A large truck is crossing a bridge 1 mile long. The bridge can only hold 14000 lbs, which is the exact weight of the truck. The truck makes it half way across the bridge and stops. A bird lands on the truck. Does the bridge collapse?👀 Answer A little boy goes shopping and purchases 12 tomatoes. On the way home, all but 9 get mushed and ruined. How many tomatoes are left in a good condition?👀 Answer A man was born on January 1st, 23 B.C. and died January 2nd, 23 A.D. How old did he live to be?👀 Answer Add me to myself and multiply by 4. Divide me by 8 and you will have me once more. What number am I?👀 Answer An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?👀 Answer Can you arrange four nines to make it equal to 100.👀 Answer Dean Sam and Castiel are three brothers. Interestingly their current age is prime. What's more interesting that difference between their ages is also prime. How old are they?👀 Answer Divide 20 by half and add 30, what do you get?👀 Answer Double my number, I'm less than a score. Half of my number is less than four. Add one to my double when bakers are near. Days of the week are still greater, I fear.👀 Answer Eggs are $0.12 a dozen. How many eggs can you get for a dollar?👀 Answer Find the four-digit number in which the first digit is one-fourth of the last digit, the second digit is 6 times the first digit, and the third digit is the second digit plus 3.👀 Answer Five times the difference of twice a number and three, decreased by the sum of this number and eight, equals thirteen.👀 Answer Four years ago, Alex was twice as old as Jake. Four years from now, Jake will be 3/4 of Alex's age. How old is Alex?👀 Answer How can you add 8 8's to make 1000?👀 Answer How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1000?👀 Answer How can you get 4 from 5?👀 Answer How can you give someone $63 using six bills, without using any one dollar bills?👀 Answer How can you give someone $83 using exactly 7 bills, without using any one dollar bills?👀 Answer How can you make six into an odd number?👀 Answer How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550? Can you figure it out?👀 Answer How do you make the number 7 an even number without addition, subtraction, multiplication or division?👀 Answer How many 9′s are there between 1 and 100?👀 Answer How many days are there in 4 years?👀 Answer How many months have 28 days?👀 Answer How many seconds are there in one year?👀 Answer How many times can you subtract five from twenty-five?👀 Answer How much dirt is in a hole 4 feet deep and 2 feet wide?👀 Answer I am an odd number, but when you get one letter I will become even. What am I?👀 Answer I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?👀 Answer I am an odd number, take away two letters and I am even👀 Answer I am as simple as a circle, worthless as a leader; but when I follow a group, their strength increases tenfold. By myself I'm practically nothing. What am I?👀 Answer I am four times as old as my daughter. In 20 years time I shall be twice as old as her. How old are we now?👀 Answer I have 10 red socks and 10 blue socks in a drawer. How many socks must I take out to ensure that I have at least one matching pair? One how many to ensure I have at least a pair of red and a pair of blue?👀 Answer I have five and take away two, yet I am left with four. How is this possible?👀 Answer I’m not the sort that’s eaten, I’m not the sort you bake, Don’t put me in an oven; I don’t taste that great, But when applied correctly, around me you will find, Problems are so simple when my digits come to mind👀 Answer If 1/2 of 5 is 3, then what is 1/3 of 10?👀 Answer If 3 cats can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes, how long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats?👀 Answer If 3 salesmen can sell three cars in seven minutes, how many cars can six salesmen sell in seventy minutes?👀 Answer If 365 days are equal to 31536000 seconds,how many seconds are there in 366 days👀 Answer If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?👀 Answer If half of 5 were 3, what would one-third of 10 be?👀 Answer If it is two hours later, then it will take half as much time till it's midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it?👀 Answer If it takes four rat catchers four minutes to kill four rats, how many rat catchers would be needed to catch 50 rats in 50 minutes?👀 Answer If Mr. Flynn is 90 centimeters plus half his height, how tall is he?👀 Answer If the zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo and if two pairs of babies are born for each and every one of the original animals, and then sadly 23 animal don’t survive, how many animals do you have left in total?👀 Answer If two hours ago, it was as long after one o'clock in the afternoon as it was before one o'clock in the morning, what time would it be now?👀 Answer If two is a company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?👀 Answer If two's company, and three's a crowd, what are four and five?👀 Answer If you are cold where do you go to become hot?👀 Answer If you can purchase 8 eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?👀 Answer If you go to the movies and you are paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice or two friends to the movies at the same time?👀 Answer 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 If you had five mangoes and two bananas in one hand and two mangoes and four bananas in the other hand, what would you have?👀 Answer If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?👀 Answer If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be zero. What number is this?👀 Answer If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door.👀 Answer If you toss a coin 10 times and it lands heads up every time, what are the chances it will land heads up if you toss it again?👀 Answer In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?👀 Answer In a bicycle race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth. How many contestants were there?👀 Answer In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?👀 Answer In an alien land far away, half of 10 is 6. If the same proportion holds true, then what is 1/6th of 30 in this alien land?👀 Answer In olden days, the student of logic was given this problem: If half of 5 were 3, what would one-third of 10 be?👀 Answer In two years I know, I'll be twice as old as five years ago, said Tom. How old is Tom?👀 Answer It is the offspring of a circle and a rectangle.👀 Answer It's always above the negatives Yet it's lower than the first prime no matter how you multiply it's the same every time👀 Answer Jeff has $28.75. He purchased three cookies that cost $1.50 each, five newspapers that each cost $0.50, five flowers for $1.25 each, and used the remainder of the cash on a pair of sunglasses. How much were the sunglasses?👀 Answer Joe has ten coins totaling $1.19. From these coins, he cannot make exact change for a dollar, half­-dollar, quarter, dime, or nickel. What are the coins?👀 Answer Maria went to the bread store to buy a loaf of bread for dinner. She had 2 quarters, 4 dimes, 3 nickels and 2 pennies. The total cost of the bread $0.82. She promised to make sure she had exactly 1 coin remaining after purchase. Which coins did she have left after buying the loaf of bread?👀 Answer Math time. If you are cold where do you go to become hot?👀 Answer Matt is the fiftieth fastest and the fiftieth slowest runner in his school. Assuming no two runners are the same speed, how many runners are in Matt’s school?👀 Answer Mom and dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?👀 Answer Mr. Smith has 4 daughters. Each of his daughters has a brother. How many children does Mr. Smith have?👀 Answer My daughter has many sisters. She has as many sisters as she has brothers. Each of her brothers has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many sons and daughters do I have?👀 Answer Once upon a time there were seven dwarfs who were all brothers. They were all born two years apart. The youngest dwarf is seven years old. How old is his oldest brother?👀 Answer One brick is one kilogram and half a brick heavy. What is the weight of one brick?👀 Answer One fourth of the population of a newly discovered planet have 4 legs. The rest have two legs. There are 60 legs total. How big is the population of the newly discovered planet?👀 Answer One out of 9 otherwise identical balls is overweight. How can it be identified after 2 weighings?👀 Answer Place three matches on a table. Tell a friend to add two more matches to make eight.👀 Answer Placed above it makes greater things small. Placed beside it makes small things greater. In matters that counts it always comes first. Where others increase it keeps all things the same. What is it?👀 Answer Raise me none, and I'm unbeaten. Raise me once, I am as well. Raise me thrice, and I am eaten. All said right, but wrongly spelled. Who am I?👀 Answer Sally is 54 years old and her mother is 80, how many years ago was Sally's mother three times her age?👀 Answer The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be?👀 Answer The combined age of Jack and John is 49. Jack is twice as old, as John was when Jack was as old as John is now. How old are the brothers?👀 Answer There are 12 kids in a classroom. 6 kids are wearing socks and 4 are wearing shoes. 3 kids are wearing both. How many are bare feet?👀 Answer There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?👀 Answer There are 25 red balls, 47 green balls and 3 blue balls in a basket. There is a blind man. What is the minimum number of balls that the blind man has to pick to make sure that there are at least 2 balls of different colors?👀 Answer There are a mix of red, green and blue balls in a bag. The total number of balls is 60. There are four times as many red balls as green balls and 6 more blue balls than the green balls. How many balls of each color are there?👀 Answer there are a total of 13 cows and ducks.a cow has 4 legs and a duck has 2 legs.there are a total of 38 legs.How many cow legs are there?👀 Answer There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there?👀 Answer There is a three digit number. The second digit is four times as big as the third digit, while the first digit is three less than the second digit. What is the number?👀 Answer There was a girl half my age when I was 12, now I am 64, how old is she?👀 Answer Three times what number is no larger than two times that same number?👀 Answer Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they bring home only three fish?👀 Answer Two legs I've got, Which never walk on ground; But when I go or run, One leg turns round👀 Answer Use the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the symbols + and = to make a true equation👀 Answer What 3 positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?👀 Answer What did 0 say to 8?👀 Answer What did 2n-1 say to 2n?👀 Answer What did number 2 say to number 1?👀 Answer What did one math book say to another?👀 Answer What did one math book say to the other math book?👀 Answer What do mathematics teachers like to eat?👀 Answer What do the numbers 11, 69, 88, and 96 all have in common?👀 Answer What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?👀 Answer What happened to the plant in the math classroom?👀 Answer What is 111*111👀 Answer What is half of two plus two?👀 Answer What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?👀 Answer What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1000?👀 Answer What number is twice the sum of it’s digits?👀 Answer What odd number becomes even when beheaded?👀 Answer What was the latest passing year but was the same upside down👀 Answer When can you add 2 to 11 and get 1 as the correct answer ?👀 Answer When I was 10, Mary was half my age. Now I'm 50, how old is Mary?👀 Answer When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?👀 Answer Where can you place one line to make the following true, 5+5+5=550?👀 Answer which one doesn't quite belong vultures, eagles, hawks, herons, pelicans, and ostrich?👀 Answer Why should you never mention the number 288 in front of anyone?👀 Answer You go to the doctor because you're ill and he prescribes you with 3 pills and tells you to take them every half hour. How long do the pills last you?👀 Answer You have 14 brown socks, 14 blue socks and 14 black socks in your sock drawer. How many socks must you remove (without looking to be sure) to have a matched pair?👀 Answer Your shirt has two holes in it. How many holes are there?👀 Answer