Sports
A victory totals 3 points and a draw totals 1 point. If a team has earned 30 points and they have tied 6 times, how many matches have they played?
They have played 14 games.
Batman arrested three times as many criminals as Superman (except for 1 less), and together they have arrested every criminal in the Blackgate prison, in which there are 1599 prisoners. How many criminals has Superman arrested?
Superman has arrested 400 criminals.
My brother, my cousin and I have been playing Crash Bandicoot. I got 10 times as many lives as my brother, my cousin got 5 lives more than me. The total of lives that we got is 89. How many lives has each of us got?
My brother got 4 lives, I got 40 lives and my cousin got 45 lives.
The trainer of a volleyball team sets her 12 players in a circle and tells them to pass the ball without dropping it on the ground. To promote fair play, when a player hits the ball, she can’t hit it again until all the rest have hit the ball. They have thrown the ball 84 times. How many times has each player touched the ball?
7 times.
Eleven and Mike (Stranger Things) have been apart from one another for an unknown number of days. This number has three digits, one of them is 5 and the other two are the same number. If these three digits add up to eleven, which are the two digits that we don’t know?
The digits are 3 (answer is 353)
Playing Assasin’s Creed, my brother completed two times more missions than me, and each chapter contains 5 missions. How many missions have we completed if we are at the beginning of the 4th chapter?
I have completed 5 missions and my brother 10.
In a basketball game, Kobe Bryant scored a total of 48 points, he scored 11 goals from the three-point mark, which are worth three points each. He also scored another 15 goals, how many points were they worth?
1 point.
The No-face Man from Spirited Away has decided to go on a diet. The nutritionist from the spirit world has told him that a piece of cake makes him gain a quarter of a kilogram and a cup of magic tea makes him lose half a kilogram. If he has some cake and tea at the same time and loses 2 kilos, how many pieces of cake and cups of tea has he had?
He has had 8 pieces of cake and 8 cups of tea.
Paul, Joe and John have been playing Minecraft. Joe got double points plus 10 more diamonds than Paul, and John got triple points plus 7 more diamonds than Paul. Joe and John have the same number of diamonds. How many diamonds did each one of them get?
Paul got 3 diamonds and Joe and John got 16 diamonds
In a mixed basketball team, John is the tallest player, he is X centimetres tall. Mary is the shortest one, she is 40 centimetres shorter than John. Finally, Anna is 20 centimetres taller than Mary. If they reach 510 centimetres in total, what is the height of each player?
John is 190 centimetres tall, Mary is 150 centimetres tall and Anna is 170 centimetres tall.
Scott (Teen Wolf) takes 100 seconds to go through the lacrosse field as a man. Then he takes 1 minute to turn into a werewolf and run through the field again. If he takes half of the time to run through the field as a werewolf than as a human, how much does he take to become a werewolf?
Scott takes 10 seconds to become a werewolf.
In Minecraft, an armour top costs double the amount of iron ingots than a pair of boots, a pair of trousers costs 7 iron ingots, and a helmet costs 3 ingots more than half of the ingots needed to buy a pair of boots. I need a total of 24 iron ingots to buy a complete set of armour. How many ingots do I need to buy each part of armour?
Armour top: 8 iron ingots. Pair of boots: 4 iron ingots. Pair of trousers: 7 iron ingots. Helmet: 5 iron ingots.
Cristiano Ronaldo says he is the best goal shooter in the world for football. He usually shoots 6 fouls each game and scores 1 goal in every 4 attempts. Messi shoots 3 fouls each game and scores 1 goal every second. How many goals have they scored in 10 games? Is Cristiano right in considering that he is the best goal shooter? Give reason to your answer.
Messi and Cristiano have scored the same number of goals, 15, but Cristiano isn’t the best goal shooter because he makes more attempts than Messi to score the same number of goals.
The army in the film 300 is divided into three battalions, whose numbers of men are even and consecutive numbers. How many men form each of the battalions?
The battalions are formed by 98, 100 and 102 men.
In Rocket League, I have scored three goals more than my brother, and my cousin Frank has scored double the amount of goals as my brother. Together Frank and I have scored three times the number of goals that my brother has scored plus one. How many goals has each one scored?
It’s impossible to know, this equation is always satisfied (infinite number of solutions).