Cool Maths Riddles!
1. As I was going to the fair, I saw a man with golden hair. He had 3 sons each with another one. How many people were going to the fair? What's the answer? 2. A queen bee was buzzing, a worker bee was buzzing, a honey bee was buzzing, and a killer bee was buzzing. How many bees were in buzzing? Answer
3.What did you wear the day after yesterday?
4. Twenty seven ducks are going to the pond. Five of them got lost, thirteen of them are staying home, nine of them are at the pond. Where are the rest of them? 5. Tara has $29.00 dollars. She bought 4 coloring books that cost $3.00 each, 4 boxes of crayola crayons that cost $2.00 each. She spend the rest of her money on markers. How much money did she spend on markers?
6. There is a pink single story house and everything in it is pink. The doors are pink, the windows are pink and the TV is pink. What color are the stairs?
7. If you have one pound of rocks and one pound of feathers, which one will weigh more?
8. I have three USA coins. They are not a quarter, nor a dime, or a penny. It adds up to 60 cents. What are the coins? 9. There is a pink house made of bricks, a blue house made of bricks, an orange house made of bricks. What color bricks is a greenhouse made of? 10. If a rooster laid 11 eggs and the farmer took 5 of them and another rooster laid 14 eggs and 5 of them were rotten, how many eggs were left?
Answers
1. One. Just me because I met the others on the way to the fair.
2. One. There is only one b in the word buzzing.
3. What I am wearing today.
4. There aren't any anywhere else.
5. $9.00 on markers.
6. There are no stairs in a single story house.
7. They both weigh a pound.
8. A 50 cent piece and 2 nickels.
9. A greenhouse is made of glass or plastic, not bricks.
10. 0. Roosters don't lay eggs.
We hope you enjoyed our riddles.
1. Why should you never mention the number 288 in front of anyone? Because it is too gross (2 x 144 – two gross).
2. Which weighs more? A pound of gold or a pound of feathers? Both weigh the same.
3. How is the moon like a dollar? They both have 4 quarters.
4. What is alive and has only 1 foot? A leg.
5. When do giraffes have 8 feet? When there's two of them.
6. How many eggs can you put in an empty basket? Only one, after that the basket is not empty.
7. What coin doubles in value when half is deducted? A half dollar.
8. What is the difference between a new penny and an old quarter? 24 cents.
9. If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter? 8.
10. Where can you buy a ruler that is 3 feet long? At a yard sale.
11. If there were 9 cats on a bridge and one jumped over the edge, how many would be left? None – they are copycats.
12. If you take three apples from five apples, how many do you have? You have three apples.
13. What has 4 legs and only 1 foot? A bed.
14. How many times can you subtract 6 from 30? Once; after that it is no longer 30 (Don't try this in a test!)
15. If one nickel is worth five cents, how much is half of one half of a nickel worth? $0.0125
16. How many 9's between 1 and 100? 20.
17. Which is more valuable – one pound of $10 gold coins or half a pound of $20 gold coins? One pound is twice of half pound.
18. It happens once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year. What is it? The letter 'e'.
19. How can half of 12 be 7? Cut XII into two halves horizontally. You get VII on the top half.
20. When things go wrong, what can you always count on? Your fingers.
21. Why are diapers like 100 dollar bills? They need to be changed.
22. A street that is 40 yards long has a tree every 10 yards on both sides. How many total trees on the entire street? 10, 5 on each side.
23. What goes up and never comes down? Your age.
24. What did one math book say to the other math book? Wow, have I got problems!
25. Why is the longest human nose on record only 11 inches long? Otherwise it would be a foot.

