Lateral Thinking
You enter a room with a match, a candle, an oil lamp, and a fireplace.
Which do you light first?
The match
What number comes next?
3, 6, 12, 24, ___
48 (doubling)
A pizza is cut into 8 slices. You eat 3.
What fraction of the pizza is left?
5/8
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die.
How many are left?
9 (the rest died, the 9 remain).
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
What number comes next?
5, 9, 17, 33, ___
Rule: ×2 − 1
Answer: 65
A rectangle has area 48 cm².
One side is 6 cm.
What is the other side?
8cm
Rearrange the letters:
“LISTEN”
to make a related word.
Silent
A woman pushes her car to a hotel and loses all her money.
What happened?
She's playing monopoly
Find the missing number:
7 → 22
5 → 18
9 → 26
11 → ?
Rule: multiply by 2 then add 8.
Answer: 30
A bag contains red, blue, and green marbles.
If 12 are red, 8 are blue, and 10 are green, what percentage are blue?
8/30 ≈ 26.7%
What has hands but cannot clap?
A clock
A man looks at a photo and says, “Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.”
Who is in the photo?
His son
What number comes next?
1, 2, 6, 24, 120, ___
Pattern: Factorials (n!)
Answer: 720
A 165L tank already has 15L of water in it. If I fill it at 5 litres per minute, how long will it take to fill?
165 - 15 = 150L to fill
150 (L) / 5 (L/min) = 30 minutes
Answer: 30 minutes
I’m thinking of a 3-digit number.
All three digits are different.
The sum of the digits is 12.
It is divisible by 3.
It is odd.
Question:
What number am I?
Answer: Your number could be any of the following:
129, 192, 219, 291
147, 417, 471, 741
237, 273, 327, 723
345, 435, 453, 543