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Updated 4 years ago,January 21, 2021
Math riddlesare some of the most challenginglogic puzzlesout there.
From a wordproblemto integers toprime numbers,math brain teaserscan be quite frustrating.
To get the right answers tomath riddles, apersonshould uselogic,critical thinking,andproblem-solving skills.
Gettingkidsto understandmathcan be quite hard, but getting them tohavefunwhile learningmathis even harder.
Riddle:If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always remain the same.
Riddle:You are given 3 positive numbers.
Using addition and multiplication with the numbers will get you the same answer.
What are the numbers?Answer:1, 2, and 3.
Riddle:When does 11 + 3 = 2?Answer:On a clock.
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:Two hens can lay two eggs in two minutes.
Riddle:Ram has five sons and each son has a sister.
How many children does Mr. Ram have?Answer:Six; each son has the same sister.
Riddle:What do math teachers like to eat?Answer:Pi(e).
Riddle:What does one math textbook say to another?Answer:I have so many problems.
Riddle:When you add eight 8s, the result you get will be 1,000.
Riddle:A soccer fan decided to go to a soccer game.
Riddle:Ten candles stand burning in a dining room.
A strong breeze blows in through an open window, extinguishing three of them.
Since the other seven were not extinguished, their wax will melt completely down, causing their demise.
However, the three candles whose flames were extinguished will be completely intact.
Riddle:I am an even number.
If you take away one letter from me, I become odd.
Riddle:Jesss pencil was wearing out and is now only three centimeters long.
Her friend Stans new pencil was eight times that length.
How long was Stans pencil?Answer:8 x 3 = 24 cms.
What floor is he on?Answer:The ninth floor.
Riddle:Paul the Polar Bear had a birthday party and had each guest bringing five fish.
A penguin stole two fish but there were still 198 left.
How many people came to the party?Answer:40.
How many carrots does he eat every week?Answer:127 carrots.
Riddle:Ten copycats were sitting on a boat when one jumped out.
How many were left?Answer:None.
They were copycats so they all jumped out.
Riddle:If Tom and his father are put together, they weigh 280 pounds.
Toms dad weighs three times as much as he does.
How much does Tom weigh?Answer:70 pounds.
Riddle:Four friends are racing.
Lisa finishes four hours ahead of Tony with Pete finishing eight hours ahead of Max.
Max needed six more hours to finish than Lisa.
Riddle:16 players enter into a basketball shootout tournament.
How many games must be played before there is a winner?Answer:Fifteen.
Riddle:A baker carries a bag of flour that weighs 15 pounds.
He takes half of the flour out but finds that the bag weighs nine pounds.
How heavy is the empty bag?Answer:Three pounds.
Math Riddlesfor Adults
Atrickymathriddleis great for a youngpersonor adult looking to strengthen their skills in the subject.
Remember: learningdifferent thingsin new ways can befun!
Riddle:I have two coins equaling fifteen cents.
Riddle:The combined age of a father and son is 66 years.
The age of the father is the age of the son but with the digits reversed.
Riddle:A man is found hanging dead from the ceiling of a room.
There are no windows in the room and there is only one door.
The door is found bolted shut and there is a puddle of water beneath the man.
Riddle:Joe has ten coins totaling $1.19.
What are the coins?Answer:A half-dollar, a quarter, four dimes, and four pennies.
This problem has to do with closed areas on the number.
Therefore, 1919 has two closed areas (tops of the nines).
Riddle:My twin lives at the reverse of my house number.
The difference between our house numbers ends in two.
What are the lowest possible numbers our house numbers can be?Answer:19 and 91.
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:When shipping something, Tom can place ten small boxes or eight large boxes into a carton.
How many cartons did he ship?Answer:11 cartons.
Riddle:A zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo.
Two pairs of babies are born for each of the original animals but sadly, 23 animals dont survive.
Riddle:A certain number has three digits.
The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number.
Seven times the left digit plus nine equals five times the sum of the two other digits.
Eight times the second digit minus nine is equal to the sum of the first and third.
What is the number?Answer:324.
Riddle:Cara leaves New York at 8 AM, driving 35 mph.
Nancy starts driving to New York at 50 mph.
Riddle:A teacher says that there are fewer than 30 students but more than 20 in a classroom.
How many students are in the class?Answer:24 students.
Riddle:Seven brothers were born two years apart.
The youngest brother is seven.
How old is the oldest brother?Answer:19.
Difficult Riddles
Ask ariddlequestionlike the ones below to anypersonin your life and they will definitely be stumped.
They are no joke hard but give them a try!
IQ Test
Riddle:What is x?
Every day the snail climbs 5 meters up but at night it slides down 4 meters.
And, on the second day, he reaches 6 meters but slides back to 2 meters.
On the third day, he reaches 7 meters but slides back to 3 meters.
And, on the fifteenth day, he reaches 19 meters but slides back to 15 meters.
Six years later at age nine, Manish returned to see how much higher the nail was.
you might only use the operations + x / ().
You have to use all four numbers.Answer:8 / (3 8/3) = 24.
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