Riddles & Brain Teasers
Our collection of riddles will challenge your intelligence. We have collected riddles in different categories like funny, amazing, brain teasers and much more. So give your brain a little exercise today.
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?”
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It”s cheaper to take two friends at the same time. In this case you would only be buying three tickets whereas if
you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets.”
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If a wheel has 64 spokes how many spaces are there between the spokes?
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64. The space that comes after the 64th spoke would be just before the first spoke.
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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?
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One hundred – work backwards and you will understand.
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Solve this mathematical problem: 2 + 15 + 5 + 9 – 4 + 3 + 8 – 12 + 26.
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52
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A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?
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11 times. It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds.
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Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
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Easy three melons!
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How many squares are in a chessboard ?
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204 squares: 64 one-by-one squares, 49 two-by-two, 36 three-by-three, 25 four-by-four, 16 five-by-five, 9 six-by-six, 4 seven-by-seven, and 1 eight-by-eight
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You are right next to a river and have a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 1 gallon of water. How do you do it?
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Fill up the 3 gallon container first. Pour it into the five gallon container. Fill up the 3 gallon container again, and fill up the rest of the 5 gallon container, and you should have 1 gallon left over in the 3 gallon container.
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What did the circle say to the tangent line?
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“Stop touching me!”
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What do you have to know to get top grades in geometry?
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All the angles
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How will a mathematician win a war easily?
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By putting the enemy in close brackets.
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Why is math a violent subject?
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Because it has mean values, cross products and warring fractions.
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What chart is appropriate is at a baker’s convention?
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A pie chart
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What does a statistician use to measure the weight of trees?
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The log scale.
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If it takes twenty minutes to hard-boil one goose egg, how long will it take to hard-boil four goose eggs?
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20 minutes, 4 eggs can be boiled at the same time.
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