Riddles
What has a head, a tail but has not body or legs?
A penny
If a movie starts at 4:15 PM and lasts for 1 hour and 45 minutes, what time does it end?
4:15 + 1 hour = 5:15. 5:15 + 45 minutes = 6:00 PM.
6:00 PM.
What has words but never speaks?
book
At 3:00 on a clock, what is the angle between the hour and minute hands?
right angle or 90 degree angle
What has hands but can't clap?
A clock
What are the next two numbers in this pattern?
5, 10, 20, 40, ___, ___
80, 160.
What belongs to you but other people use it more?
Your name
Two numbers have a product of 48 and a sum of 14. What are the two numbers?
6 and 8.
What gets wet while drying?
A towel
I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is 4 more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is 3 less than my tens digit. If my ones digit is 2, what number am I?
The number is 362.
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
A glove
The sum of the ages of two brothers is 17. The older brother is 3 years older than the younger. How old is each?
Ages: 7 and 10.
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Egg
If ⅓ of a number is 9, what is ⅔ of that number?
18.
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
a hole
Fill in +, –, ×, or ÷ to make this true:
8 _ 2 _ 4 = 10
8 – 2 + 4 = 10.
I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
A Keyboard
A square has the same perimeter as a rectangle with length 10 cm and width 6 cm. What is the side length of the square?
Rectangle perimeter = 2×(10+6) = 32 cm.
Square perimeter = 4 × side = 32 → side length = 8 cm.
What has cities, but no houses and water but no fish?
a map?
A square has an area of 64 square cm. What is its perimeter?
Area = side × side = 64 → side = 8 units. Perimeter = 4 × 8 = 32 cm.