Math Riddles

Here you will find interesting and fun math riddles, sayings and puzzles of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?
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11 times. It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Clock, Time

A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?
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Nine Years
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Tree

A worm is in a ten foot hole. Every day he goes up two feet and drops down one. How many days will it take for the worm to get out of the hole?
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Nine Days
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Hole, Worm

During what month do people sleep the least?
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February, it's the shortest month after all.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Sleep, Time

Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
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Easy three melons!
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Food

How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole of 20 meter long and 30 meter wide?
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None, holes are empty.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Dirt

How many squares are in a chessboard?
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204 squares: 64 one-by-one squares, 49 two-by-two, 36 three-by-three, 25 four-by-four, 16 five-by-five, 9 six-by-six, 4 seven-by-seven, and 1 eight-by-eight
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Chess

How will a mathematician win a war easily?
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By putting the enemy in close brackets.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: War

I add five to nine, and get two. The answer is correct, but how?
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When it is 9am, add 5 hours to it and you will get 2pm.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Clock, Time

I am a three digit number. My second digit is four times more than my third digit. My first digit is seven less than my second digit. What Am I?
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182
Category: Math Riddles, What I AmTopics: Number

If a wheel has 64 spokes how many spaces are there between the spokes?
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64. The space that comes after the 64th spoke would be just before the first spoke.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Wheel

If there are 4 apples and you take away 3, how many do you have?
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You took 3 apples so obviously you have 3.
Category: Math Riddles, Riddles for KidsTopics: Fruit

If there are three apples and you take two away, how many apples do you have?
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You took two apples, so you now have two of them.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Apple, Food

If you have a pound of nails and a pound of feathers which one weighs more?
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There weigh the same because there both are a pound.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Feather, Nail

Mary has six brothers and five sisters. Yet, together they are 12 siblings. How so?
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Including Mary, they are 12.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Family

There are four girls and four apples in a basket. Every girl takes an apple yet one apple remains in the basket? How is this possible?
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The answer is that one girl took the basket. She took the last apple while it was in the basket.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Apple

There is a mixture of purple, orange, and yellow crayons in a crayon box. The total number of crayons is 60, there are four times as many orange crayons as yellow crayons. There are also 6 more purple crayons than orange crayons. How many crayons of each color are there?
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There are 30 purple crayons, 24 orange crayons and 6 yellow crayons.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Color, Crayon

What did the circle say to the tangent line?
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“Stop touching me!”
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Geometry

What do you have to know to get top grades in geometry?
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All the angles
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Geometry

What kind of tree does a math teacher climb?
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Geometry
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Geometry, Tree

What’s the easiest way to double your money?
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Put it in front of a mirror.
Category: Math Riddles, Riddles for KidsTopics: Mirror, Money

Why isn't your nose twelve inches long?
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Because it would then be a foot.
Category: Classical riddles, Math RiddlesTopics: Human body

Would you have more money with a million dollars today or a penny today and double your money every day for 31 days?
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Double your money every day for 31 days
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Money, Time

You are right next to a river and have a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 1 gallon of water. How do you do it?
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Fill up the 3 gallon container first. Pour it into the five gallon container. Fill up the 3 gallon container again, and fill up the rest of the 5 gallon container, and you should have 1 gallon left over in the 3 gallon container.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Water

You're running a race and pass the person in 2nd place. What place are you in now?
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You're in second place. You didn't pass the person in first.
Category: Math RiddlesTopics: Contest, Running

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