Logic puzzles
add six to eleven and get five. How is this correct?
Hint: What time is it?
Adding 6 to 11 refers to adding hours on a clock. After 12, the count resets, so 11 + 6 = 5 o’clock.
Mai has 40 goody bags, she has 124 candys how many should she put in each goody bag?
30 candy’s
(remainder doesn’t matter.)
The Lion King: In "Hakuna Matata," Timon and Pumbaa preach a worry-free philosophy. What does the Swahili phrase hakuna matata translate to in English?
No worries
A fish’s head is 3 centimeters long. Its tail is the same length as the head plus half the body. The body is as long as the head and tail together. How long is the fish?
24 centimeters. The head is 3 cm long, the body is 12 cm long, and the tail is 9 cm long.
If you have 30 red socks, 20 white socks, and 10 blue socks, how many will you pick to get at least 1 matching pair without looking?
4
You book a flight for \(\$320\), a hotel for \(\$150\) per night, and a rental car for \(\$60\) per day. If you stay 3 nights and rent the car for 4 days, what is the total trip cost?
What is 1,010?
What is the actual name of the character who passionately belts out "I’ll make a man out of you" in the the Disney film of a girl with a desire to be a fighter?
Mulan.
Can you draw a polygon with 2 sides and 2 angles of 90 degrees?
Yes, if you draw it on a sphere
Multiply the number of thumbs that everyone in the world has. What is the result?
0, because at least one person in the world doesn’t have thumbs.
You budget \(\$1,800\) per month for rent and groceries. If groceries cost \(\$450\) and represent \(25\%\) of your total, what is your rent?
$1,350
How many emotions does Riley have in the first movie of inside out?
5
You’re in a room with two doors. One leads to freedom, and the other to doom. Two guards know which door is which. One always tells the truth, the other always lies. You can ask only one question to one guard. What do you ask?
Ask, “If I asked the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would they say?” Then choose the opposite door.
I am a number, but when you add ‘G’ to me, I go away. What number am I?
One (gOne).
You host a dinner party and buy a bottle of wine for \(\$22\), a charcuterie board for \(\$30\), and 4 steaks for \(\$18\) each. If you split this evenly among 4 people, how much do your guests owe you each?
$30.50
Which uncle do we never talk about in the movie encanto?
Bruno.
You are outside a closed room with three light switches. Only one of them controls a light inside the room. You can flip the switches as much as you want, but you can only enter the room once to check. How do you know which switch controls the light?
Turn on two switches, then turn one off after a few minutes. Enter the room; if the bulb is on, it’s the first switch. If the bulb is warm, it’s the second. If cold, it’s the third
Bob opened a book and discovered that the sum of these two-page numbers was 21. But what do you get if you multiply these two numbers?
10 x 11 = 110
If a company issues $1,000,000 in convertible bonds with a $1,000 par value, convertible into 25 shares of stock, and the stock’s market price rises to $48 per share, what is the theoretical dilution in earnings per share if the bondholders exercise their conversion rights, assuming current net income is $2,500,000 and there are 1,000,000 shares outstanding?
What is $0.50 per share?
What does Olaf love In the iconic Film frozen?
Warm hugs.
Three friends share a €300 hotel room. They each pay €100, but the hotel manager realizes there was a discount and gives the bellboy €50 to return. The bellboy keeps €20 and gives €10 back to each person, meaning they each paid €270. But 3 x €90 = €270, plus the €20 the bellboy kept, makes €290. Where’s the missing dollar?
There’s no missing dollar. The math mixes amounts in an invalid way. The €270 already includes the bellboy’s €20.