Calculative/Math mysteries
There are 2 ants in front of 2 other ants, 2 ants behind 2 ants and 2 ants standing side by side with 2 ants. How many total ants are there?
4 ants(standing in a square)
Claire ordered a meal for her family of four at a fast food restaurant. She ordered meal numbers 1, 13, 27 and 31 but the ended up giving all the food back. Why is that?
The food was odd
A man is taking a trip and he's starting in Charleston then going to Houston. He will stay one night then head to Richmond and after that he'll go to Georgetown. He'll stay two nights then go to Raleigh and lastly travel to Sacramento. Where is he now?
The man still hasn't left for his trip so he's still in Charleston
What Always Ends Everything?
The letter G
Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not.
What am I ?
(a) Ton
A small number of cards has been lost from a complete pack. If I deal among four people, three cards remain. If I deal among three people, two remain and if I deal among five people, two cards remain. How many cards are there?
47
A limo driver is going the wrong way down a one way street. He goes past four police officers along the way, yet none of them stop him. One even smiled and waved. Why didn’t the police stop him?
Because the limo driver was walking, not driving
How is Barry 10 years old in 1870, but only five years old in 1875?
Barry was born in 1880 BCE.
What do the letter 't' and an island have in common?
They are both in the middle of water; "WaTer"
A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. What must you put in it for it to weigh 40 pounds?
A hole
How can 8+8=4?
8 AM plus 8 hours equals 4
Two men had lunch together and ordered iced teas to drink. One man had five during lunch while the other man only had one. All of the drinks were poisoned. The man that had only one drink died but the man that had five drinks survived. How can that be?
The poison was in the ice cubes and the man who drank five iced teas never let his melt
Two cops walked into a room with no windows and found a dead man who obviously hung himself from the ceiling, though they couldn't figure out how. There was no chair beneath him that he might have jumped off of, or a table. Just a puddle of water. How'd he do it?
He stood on a block of ice until it melted.
Which is correct to say: "The yolk of the egg is white" or "the yolk of the egg are white?"
Neither, the yolk of an egg is yellow
What is it that given one, you'll have either more or none?
A choice
If 66 = 2, 99 = 2, 888 = 6, 00 = 2, 7777 = 0, 667= 2, 276 = 1, 833 = 2, then what does 2876 equal?
Three. Each circle within a number is equivalent to one. For example, the numbers 9 and 6 are equivalent to one because they have one circle in them, whereas the number 8 is equal to 2 because of its two loops.
Besides all being fruit, what do Apples, Blackberries, Tangerines, Apricots and Raspberries have in common?
All are (or have been) the name of a tech company or tech company’s product
How can you add eight 4s together so that the total adds up to 500?
444 + 44 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 500
Which word has three sets of double letters?
Bookkeeper/Bookkeeping
A prisoner is told: "If you tell a lie, we will hang you and if you tell the truth, we will shoot you"
What did the prisoner say to save himself?
“You will hang me"
You have two ropes, each of which takes exactly one hour to burn if lit from one end. The ropes are not identical, nor are they uniform (it doesn't necessarily take half an hour for half the rope to burn), and there is no way for you to measure half of a rope.
With only these two ropes and a way to light them, how do you measure out 45 minutes?
Reveal Answer
First, light both ends of one rope and only one end of the other rope.
This will cause the first rope to burn out in 30 minutes (as you lit both ends it will burn in half the time as if you'd only lit one end).
When the first rope burns out, there will be 30 minutes left on the second rope (as each rope takes one hour to burn when lit from one end).
So then, light the other end of the second rope so both ends of it are now burning. This rope will now burn out in another 15 minutes.
The total time elapsed at this point will be 45 minutes (30 + 15 = 45 minutes).
What is next in this sequence of numbers: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, ______?
13112221
Each sequence of numbers is a verbal representation of the sequence before it. Thus, starting with 1, the next sequence would be "one one," or "11." That sequence is followed by "two one," or "21," and so on and so forth.
A man is found murdered in his office. The suspects are Peter, Julie, Jason, Molly and Brian.
In the office is an annual calendar with the numbers 6,4,9,10,11 written in blood.
Jason is the killer. The numbers indicate months and the first letter of each month spells the name of the murderer, e.g. the 6th month is June and the first letter of June is J, the 4th month is April and the first letter of April is a, and so on.
If I Am Holding A Bee, What Do I Have In My Eye?
Beauty; for "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
There are three chests, each of which contains 100 coins. One chest has 100 gold coins, one has 100 silver coins, and the third has an equal split of 50 gold coins and 50 silver coins.
Each chest is labeled, but all are labeled incorrectly. You are allowed to pick one coin from just one of the chests and after his you must correctly identify each of the three chests.
What should you do?
Take a coin from the chest labeled 50/50.