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A man spends 1/6 of his life in childhood, 1/12 as a teenager, and 1/7 more before getting married. He spends 5 more years as a father, and then his son is born. The son grows to the same age as the father when the father passes away at 84. How old was the father when his son was born?
Answer: 42 years
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If I have 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?
Answer: 4 (because you took them)
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You have a number that is the same forwards, backwards, and upside down. What is it?
Answer: 808
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What is the smallest positive number that can be divided by every number from 1 to 10 without leaving a remainder?
Answer: 2520
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If you add 10 to me and then divide me by 4, you get the same result as subtracting 5 from me and then dividing by 3. What number am I?
Answer: 15
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What is the only integer that is neither positive nor negative?
Answer: Zero
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I am a number. When you multiply me by 4 and subtract 6, you get the same result as adding 6 to me and then doubling the result. What number am I?
Answer: 6
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Classic Riddles
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If you multiply all the digits of my age, you get 0. I am a two-digit number. What am I?
Answer: 10 (1 × 0 = 0)
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Classic Riddles
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If you write all the numbers from 1 to 100, how many times do you write the digit 9?
Answer: 20 times (9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90-99)
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Classic Riddles
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What comes next in the sequence: 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, __?
Answer: 3 (These are the number of letters in each number's name in English: three, three, five, four, four, three)
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If a boy blows 18 bubbles, then pops 6, eats 7, and blows 1 more, how many bubbles are left?
Answer: 6 (since bubbles that are eaten or popped are gone)
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If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine
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I am a four-digit number. The first digit is 1, the last digit is 3, the second digit is twice the last digit, and the third digit is half the second digit. What am I?
Answer: 1623
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What 3 positive numbers give the same answer when multiplied and added together?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3 (1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 × 2 × 3 = 6)
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If you add me to myself and then add me again, you get 30. What number am I?
Answer: 10 (10 + 10 + 10 = 30)
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I am a number that when divided by 2, the result is 3 more than 7. What number am I?
Answer: 20 (20 ÷ 2 = 10; 10 = 7 + 3)
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Classic Riddles
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You have two ropes that each take exactly one hour to burn, but they burn at irregular rates. How can you use these ropes to measure 45 minutes?
Answer: Light one rope at both ends and the other rope at one end. When the first rope burns out (in 30 minutes), light the other end of the second rope. The remaining rope will take 15 minutes to burn, giving a total of 45 minutes.
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A clock shows the time as 3:15. What is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?
Answer: 7.5 degrees (The hour hand moves 0.5 degrees per minute, so in 15 minutes, it has moved 7.5 degrees from the 3)
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You have 9 balls of the same size, but one weighs slightly more or less than the others. Using a balance scale, how can you find the odd ball in just two weighings?
Answer: Divide the balls into 3 groups of 3. Weigh two groups against each other. If they balance, the odd ball is in the group not weighed. If they don’t, the odd ball is in the heavier or lighter group. Then, take two balls from the suspect group and weigh them. If they balance, the third ball is the odd one; if not, the heavier or lighter one is the odd one.
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There are 100 people standing in a circle, and they are numbered 1 to 100. Starting with person 1, every second person is removed until only one person remains. What is the number of the last person standing?
Answer: 73 (This is the Josephus problem)
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A car travels 60 miles per hour from City A to City B, and 40 miles per hour on the return trip. What is the car’s average speed for the entire trip?
Answer: 48 miles per hour (The average speed is the harmonic mean, calculated as 2 × (60 × 40) / (60 + 40) = 48)
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A man has 10 coins totaling $1.25. The coins include pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. How many of each coin does he have?
Answer: 5 quarters, 4 nickels, and 1 penny
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In a certain country, 1/3 of the population are mathematicians, 1/4 are scientists, and the rest are doctors. If there are 12 million people in total, how many doctors are there?
Answer: 5 million doctors (1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12, so 5/12 are doctors)
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A train leaves the station at 10 AM traveling at 60 miles per hour. Another train leaves the same station at 11 AM on a parallel track at 80 miles per hour. At what time will the second train catch up to the first?
Answer: 3 PM (The second train gains 20 miles per hour, so it will take 5 hours to catch up)
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You have a basket of apples. If you divide the apples equally among 5 people, each person gets 3 apples, and 2 apples remain in the basket. How many apples are in the basket?
Answer: 17 apples
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If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
Answer: 5 minutes (Each machine takes 5 minutes to make one widget)
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I am a two-digit number. My tens digit is three times my units digit. If you reverse my digits and add the resulting number to the original number, you get 66. What number am I?
Answer: 24 (24 + 42 = 66)
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A man buys a horse for $60, sells it for $70, buys it back for $80, and sells it again for $90. How much profit did he make?
Answer: $20
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Classic Riddles
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Two people are born at the same moment, but they have different birthdays. How is this possible?
Answer: They were born in different time zones.
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I am thinking of a number. When you divide it by 2 and add 10, you get the same number as when you subtract 10 and multiply by 2. What is the number?
Answer: 20
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Classic Riddles
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What number is half of two plus two?
Answer: 3 (Half of 2 is 1; 1 + 2 = 3)
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I am a number between 1 and 20. I am divisible by both 3 and 4. What number am I?
Answer: 12
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If you add me to myself and then add me again, you get 12. What number am I?
Answer: 4 (4 + 4 + 4 = 12)
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What has one foot but no legs?
Answer: A ruler
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If you double me, I’m less than twenty. But if you divide me by five, I’m greater than four. What number am I?
Answer: 9
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I am a number that is the same upside down. What number am I?
Answer: 8
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Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Answer: They weigh the same, 1 pound
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What is the next number in this pattern: 2, 4, 6, 8, __?
Answer: 10 (It’s a pattern of adding 2)
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I am an odd number. Take away one letter, and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven (Remove the 's' and it becomes 'even')
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If you buy 10 oranges and eat 4, how many do you have left?
Answer: 6 oranges
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Classic Riddles
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- Conundrums for the Advanced Solver
A man has two ropes, each of which takes exactly 1 hour to burn. However, the ropes burn unevenly. How can he use the ropes to measure exactly 45 minutes?
Answer: Light one end of the first rope and both ends of the second rope simultaneously. When the second rope burns out (in 30 minutes), light the other end of the first rope. The first rope will then burn out in 15 more minutes, totaling 45 minutes.
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Classic Riddles
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A boy was born in Room 2000 of a hospital, and in 2010, he was 10 years old. How is this possible?
Answer: He was born in Room 2000, not in the year 2000.
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Classic Riddles
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There are 100 doors in a row that are all initially closed. You make 100 passes by the doors, toggling them open or closed: on the first pass, you visit every door and toggle it open. On the second pass, you visit every second door and toggle it. On the third pass, you visit every third door, and so on. After 100 passes, which doors are open?
Answer: The doors that are perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100).
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Classic Riddles
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Three people check into a hotel room that costs $30. They each contribute $10. Later, the manager realizes the room was only $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. The bellboy, unable to divide the $5 equally, gives $1 back to each person and keeps $2 as a tip. Each person has now paid $9, totaling $27, and the bellboy has $2. What happened to the other dollar?
Answer: There is no missing dollar. The total they paid is $27, which is $25 for the room and $2 for the bellboy.
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Classic Riddles
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What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 10?
Answer: 2520
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You have a 5-liter jug and a 3-liter jug, and you need to measure out exactly 4 liters of water. How can you do it?
Answer: Fill the 5-liter jug. Then pour water from it into the 3-liter jug until the 3-liter jug is full, leaving 2 liters in the 5-liter jug. Empty the 3-liter jug and pour the remaining 2 liters from the 5-liter jug into it. Now fill the 5-liter jug again, and pour water from it into the 3-liter jug until it is full, leaving exactly 4 liters in the 5-liter jug.
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Classic Riddles
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You have 12 coins, and one of them is a counterfeit. The counterfeit coin is either heavier or lighter than the real ones. Using a balance scale, how can you find the counterfeit coin in just three weighings?
Answer: Divide the 12 coins into 3 groups of 4. Weigh two groups; if they balance, the counterfeit is in the third group. Weigh two coins from the remaining group, and if they balance, the last coin is the counterfeit. If not, the heavier or lighter one is the counterfeit.
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Two trains are on the same track, starting at opposite ends and heading towards each other. They start 100 miles apart and each train travels at 50 miles per hour. A fly flies back and forth between the two trains at 75 miles per hour. How far will the fly have flown when the trains collide?
Answer: 75 miles (The trains will collide after 1 hour, so the fly will have flown 75 miles)
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Classic Riddles
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I am a five-digit number. I am always a palindrome, and if you add me to the number obtained by reversing my digits, you get 88888. What am I?
Answer: 44444
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Classic Riddles
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How many times do the hands of a clock overlap in a 24-hour period?
Answer: 22 times
