Tell them a riddle! There are a number of benefits to using brain teasers in the classroom, like for math. It helps strengthen cognitive abilities and problem-solving skills. They can be great extra credit questions on a math quiz, too! Here are some easy riddles with their simple answers some of them can be used as jokes too!
There are also some math puzzles and word problems that might be a bit more challenging. These puzzles might make learning math and using thinking skills a little more entertaining for students. What did the triangle say to the circle? How many sides does a circle have? Answer: 2—the inside and the outside!
What did the math book say to the other math book? How many eggs can you get for a dollar? Answer: eggs, at one penny each. Billy was asked to paint numbers on apartments 1 thorough How many times will we have to paint the number 8? Answer: 20 times! A grandmother, 2 mothers, and 2 daughters went to the movies and bought 1 ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total? Answer: 3 tickets. The grandmother is also a mother and the mother is also a daughter.
X is an odd number. Take away an alphabet from x, and it becomes even. Answer: Seven. If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this? Answer: Zero 0. Using only the addition method, how can you use eight eights to get the number 1,? Challenge your child to really use their mind to figure out the answers to some hard riddles. Here are some good ones for them to challenge themselves:.
Find a digit number where the first digit is how many zeros in the number. The second digit is how many 1s in the number etc. Go until the tenth digit, which is how many 9s in the number. Answer: I am a 2-digit number. What number am I? Clue: I am even. What is unique about ?
Clue: Think about English and the alphabet. Answer: It is the digits 0 to 9 in alphabetical order. One and a half hens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days. How many eggs does one hen lay in one day? Answer: Find the daily rate per hen:. So 1 hen in 1 day will lay two-thirds of an egg. A man who had lived at the highest-numbered address on his street moved to another house on the same street. The sum of all the addresses below his new address was the same as the sum of all the addresses above his new address.
Every numbered address on the street is used. He had owned some beautiful brass house numbers and was pleased to discover that he did not have to purchase any new ones.
For his new house, he used all the brass numbers from his previous house. What is his new address? Old Address: New Address: The summation of integers 1 through is equal to the summation of integers through Additionally, the person can reuse their number labels.
Since they both have 1, 1, and 8, you could flip the 6 upside-down to be the 9. Riddle: There are pairs of dogs in a zoo. Two pairs of babies are born for every dog. Unfortunately, 23 of the dogs have not survived. How many dogs would be left in total? Answer: dogs. Too many numbers? Riddle: What do you answer even though it never asks you questions? Answer: A doorbell or a phone. Riddle: What word describes a woman who does not have all her fingers on one hand? Answer: Typical. She would not be so if she had 10 fingers on one hand.
Riddle: First, think of the person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Finally, give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find word. Now, string them together, and answer me this: Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss? Answer: A spider. Riddle: Mr. Mustard have 6 daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family? Answer: There are 9 Mustards in the family.
Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are 6 girls, 1 boy, and Mr. Riddle: What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman.
What is the word? Riddle: How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it? Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack. It tastes sweet and tart, now throw out the peel. Answer: Orange. Riddle: Which of the following is the largest? Triangle, circle, square, or rectangle? Answer: Rectangle, it has the most letters. Riddle: Pronounced as 1 letter, And written with 3, 2 letters there are, and 2 only in me.
Answer: Eye. Answer: A knife. Riddle: It was an especially hot day and a man was walking in the desert. In the distance, the man suddenly saw a restaurant. He rejoiced, ran to it, and immediately asked the waiter for a glass of water. Answer: It was a water gun! Riddle: Who has married many women but was never married? Answer: The priest. Riddle: I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always.
Everyone uses me. Answer: Pencil lead. Riddle: I am believed to be one-dimensional, and tinier than anything can be. Answer: A string. Answer: Record. Riddle: You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. The wind is my enemy.
Answer: A candle. Riddle: If you are running a race, and you pass the person in second, what place are you in? Answer: Second place.
Riddle: The cock crew, the sky was blue, and the bells in heaven were striking Answer: The fox burying his grandmother under a hollybush. Need more? Try these Word Riddles. Riddle: A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Answer: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!
Answer: Memories. Riddle: If two snakes marry, what will their towels say? Answer: Hiss and hers. Answer: South.
The only way to travel from the North Pole is south. Riddle: What four-letter word ends in it and can be found at the bottom of birdcages? Answer: Grit. Riddle: People make me, save me, change me, raise me. Answer: Money. Riddle: Four cars come to a four-way stop, each coming from a different direction. All 4 cars go, but none crash into each other. How is this possible? Answer: They all made right-hand turns. Riddle: With pointed fangs, I sit and wait. With piercing force, I crunch out fate.
Grabbing victims, proclaiming might, physically joining with a single bite. Answer: A stapler. Riddle: When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving? Answer: In the dictionary. Riddle: A drunk man comes home and finds his wife in bed with another man.
He goes and grabs his gun out of the closet! What was opened first? Answer: A bottle. Riddle: If the end of the year is on December 31st, what is the end of Christmas? Riddle: What does a man do only once in his lifetime, but women do once a year after they are 29? Give us a little more information and we'll give you a lot more relevant content. Your child's birthday or due date. Girl Boy Other Not Sure. Add A Child. What is it? Riddle: A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes.
Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? Easy riddles with answers are great for elementary kids and teenagers alike. Our riddle resources encourage people of all ages to stimulate thinking in new ways with low tech amusement. Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me.
Riddle: What runs around the whole yard without moving? Riddle: Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each.
How can this be possible? Riddle: A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not? Challenge your brain with a hard riddle or puzzles from Riddles. The harder riddles require you to think outside the box! Riddle: I am something people love or hate.
I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people I will fool them. To others I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. Riddle: Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
Riddle: Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? Riddle: If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal? Riddle: Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand? Here is a bonanza of starter riddles for Kids. Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you? Riddle: I make two people out of one. Riddle: I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. Got funny riddles? Yes, we do.
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Guaranteed to produce laughter and groans for hours. Riddle: Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen? Riddle: How do you spell COW in thirteen letters? Riddle: There are two monkeys on a tree and one jumps off. Why does the other monkey jump too? Riddle: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears".
Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. Math riddles and number puzzles that challenge your lateral thinking.
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