Numbers
What number becomes bigger when you turn it upside down?
6
(Turned upside down, it becomes 9)
What comes next in the pattern?
2, 4, 8, 16, ___
32
(Each number doubles)
I have two coins that add up to 30 cents.
One of them is not a nickel.
What are the coins?
A quarter (25¢) and a nickel (5¢).
Only one of them is not a nickel — the other is!
I sleep all winter and wake in spring,
I have big paws but don’t wear a ring.
What am I?
A bear
Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Because then it would be a foot
I am a three-digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?
Hundreds = 1
Tens = 9
Ones = 4
→ The number is 194
What’s the next number in this pattern?
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ___
36
(Perfect squares: 1², 2², 3², ...)
The red house is on the left, and the blue house is on the right.
Where is the white house?
In Washington, D.C. US
What has four wheels and flies?
A garbage truck
What’s full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
I’m a number you get when you multiply all the numbers on a phone’s keypad.
What number am I?
0
(Because the keypad includes 0, and anything times 0 is 0)
Find the next number:
100, 90, 81, 73, ___
66
(Subtracting 10, 9, 8, ...)
Mary’s father has 4 children.
Three are named April, May, and June.
What’s the name of the fourth?
Mary
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What am I?
Footsteps
Which is heavier:
A pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither — they both weigh 1 pound.
If
1=3
2=3
3=5
5=4
than what does 6 equal
3 because six has 3 letters
1, 3, 4, 7, 11, ?
18, Because 7 + 11 = 18
Riddle:
You’re outside a room with 3 light switches, each controlling one of 3 light bulbs inside.
You can only enter the room once.
How do you figure out which switch controls which bulb?
Turn on Switch 1 and leave it on for a few minutes.
Then turn Switch 1 off, and turn Switch 2 on.
Enter the room.
The bulb that’s on = Switch 2
The bulb that’s off and warm = Switch 1
The bulb that’s off and cold = Switch 3
I carry my house upon my back,
I move slowly and leave a track.
What am I?
A snail
Forward I’m heavy, but backward I’m not.
What am I?
The word “ton”
I am a two-digit number.
My digits add up to 11.
I am also a multiple of 5.
What number am I?
65
1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ___
What comes next?
312211
(This is the look-and-say sequence)
You see me once in June, twice in November,
But not at all in May.
What am I?
The letter “e”
I shrink smaller every time I take a bath,
Until I disappear at last.
What am I?
A bar of soap
I can roar but have no mouth,
I can flash but have no eyes,
I can pour but have no hands.
What am I?
A thunderstorm