In a big art gallery, a famous painting by Turner is stolen and its dimensions are 70x30 cm. Someone thinks that the painting was false and it is right. Why? The footprint of the picture on the wall of the gallery is 2130 cm.
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RIDDLE 28: HENRY'S CASE
Henry, a
man who is 40 years old, died at 7 p.m. in front of a shopping centre in
London. From the witnesses of people and the cameras installed in the area, the
detective finds out that, at the same time, 4 people passed by:
- Laura,
who lives at 6000 m from the shopping centre and has an average speed of 150
m/min to arrive at the shopping centre;
- Marco,
who has an average speed of 40 m/min and lives at 2000 m from the shopping
centre;
- Luca, who
lives at 2000 m from Marco’s house and takes 50 min to arrive at the shopping
centre;
- Giovanni,
who has an average speed of 150 m/min and who stopped to talk with a friend for
25 min.
Who was
Henry killed by?
RIDDLE 22: FUNOLOGY
3. What goes down but never goes up? 1.What word is represent by this
rebus?
4.I’m tall when I’m young and
4.I’m tall when I’m young and
I’m short when I’m old.What am I? MARY + MARY
5.What starts with the letter 2. Can you find the mistake?
5.What starts with the letter 2. Can you find the mistake?
“t”
is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
6.They come out at night
6.They come out at night
without being called, and are lost 7. What goes through towns and
in the they without being stolen.What over hills but never moves?
in the they without being stolen.What over hills but never moves?
are they?
10. What goes up when rain comes down?
10. What goes up when rain comes down?
8.What is something you will
never see again?
9.What kind of room has no doors?
11.What building has the most stories?
RIDDLE 23 : MATHS
2. If there are 4
apples and you take away 3, how many do you have?
3. There are three
digit numbers. The second digit is four times as big as the third digit, while
the first digit is three less than the second digit. What is the second number?
4. 7 x 2 = ?
5. 2 fathers and 2 sons
go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So how many fish do they catch?
6. I am an odd
number; take away a letter and I became even. What number I am?
7. What was T.Rex’s
favorite number?
8. 100 birds were sitting on a tree. A shooter
shoots one of the bird and bird died instantly. How many left now?
9. When asked how
old he was, Mayank replied “In 2 years I will be twice as old as I was, five
years ago.” How old is he?
10. What is ‘=’
name?
11. Two ____ four
is eight. (Fill in the blank)
12. 4 x 4 + 4 x 4 +
4 – 4 x 4 = ?
13.
[4-(5-10:3x2-4)].0+[4-(5-4:2).0] = ?
14.
RIDDLE 26: POOR EDWARD
Edward is a very busy man who works in a chain of stores. As usual,
yesterday he came back home at eight o’ clock p.m. He
was so tired that he decided to go to bed immediately, after setting the alarm
clock for eight a.m. But, as he was
half asleep, he set it for nine p.m.
An hour later, when the alarm clock rang, he woke up and got up to have a glass
of water and something to eat, since that evening he hadn’t had dinner. When he
opened his bedroom door, he saw that everything was completely upside down.
Some burglars had broken into his house. Then he ran to see if his savings were
still there. At home he had 5000 euros
in total: in his safe he found 1700
euros, in his wallet 300 euros, in
his closet 200 euros. After that, he
went out and found, scattered, throughout the garden, other 400 euros, which the burglars had
surely lost while taking flight.
1. How much money is left to Edward?
2. How much money have the burglars stolen?
RIDDLE 27: WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?
On the
night of 18 November a famous killer killed some women.
We have to
find out the year when the murders happened.
I. Write the number of the month when the
murders happened;
II. Multiply it by 4;
III. Add 13;
IV. Multiply the result by 25;
V. Subtract 200;
VI. Add the day of the month when the murders
happened;
VII. Multiply
it by 2;
VIII.
Subtract 40;
IX. Multiply the result by 50;
X. Subtract
120.400.
The final
number is the year when the murders happened.
Choose the
correct answers.
A. 1402
B. 1906
C. 1900
D. 1893
RIDDLE 21: MATH SWAG
1.
The number which
was not included in Roman
numerals.
2. 
What
does this symbol mean?
What
does this symbol mean?
3.
-5/2 ,7, 0.25 are ________
numbers.
5.
The identity element of
multiplication
6. “>” meaning of this symbol
7.
Meaning of { } or
∅
8.
-7,3,7 are _________ numbers
9. |992-1000|=?
10. Let x ∈ Z ; if -1 < x ≤3 The
greatest values for the following 3x
11. Zero is ___________ element of multiplication
12.
7(0+9)-(4.14) =?
RIDDLE 30: THE STOLEN BOOKS.
In a
library 154 books have been stolen. Among these, the books with a white cover
are 3 less than those with a red cover and 5 more than those with a green cover.
How many
books with a green cover, white cover and red cover have been stolen?
RIDDLE 7: TWO FRIENDS AND WINDOWS
7. Two old friends met after many years of separation. One of them - Zbyszek said that he has 3 sons and the product of their age and the sum is the number of windows of the house that they were looking at. The second man - Maciek tried to count it but he sais that he can't tell how many years each of the sons is. Than Zbyszek said that the oldest son has got a red hair and Maciek gave the ages of Zbyszek's sons. How many years is each of the sons?
RIDDLE 16: THE LITTLE FISH
In a bucket of water there are three fish, one of them dies.
Now, how many fish are there in the bucket ?
RIDDLE 20: THE CHILDREN
Mr. and Mrs. Martin have 4 boys. Each of the boys has a sister.
How many people are there at least in this familly ?
RIDDLE 19: THE YELLOW LINE
19.
The yellow line :
There are two houses separated by a yellow line, On this line there is a rooster,
How many eggs has a rosster laid ?
The yellow line :
There are two houses separated by a yellow line, On this line there is a rooster,
How many eggs has a rosster laid ?
RIDDLE 8: CALCULATOR
8. On the planet Xcyzq everything is based on cube. The inhabitants use the same decimal use the same system as us but use 10 different symbols for the digits. The only use one aritmetical operation- rising a number to cube.
Here is the picture of one o them calculators. They called it calculator. I t has 10 buttons for digts and 11th for they only operation, raise for power 3.
RIDDLE 9 : DON ' T PLAY WITH MATCHES
-each match touches the end of at least one other
-matches only touch each other at the ends
Two resulting patterns are considered identical if you can go from one to the other by moving the
matches without litfting or breaking the contact. For example here are two identical patterns : (pic.
RIDDLE 10 : HOW TO MEASURE WATER?
We have two tanks that can contain 5 and 7 litres of water. Can we measure 4 litres using onlythat 2 tanks? If yes,how?
RIDDLE 15: WHAT AM I?
I have four legs
but I don’t walk or speak. At night there’s flesh on me but during the day
there
isn’t. What am I?
RIDDLE 12: MRS MARPLE
Miss Marple
is sitting in her living room in a peaceful neighbourhood in London, in her
favorite armchair. She is knitting a pair of woolly socks. Then the mail man
drops a letter in her mail slot. She opens the letter with shaky hands. There’s
a mystery in it that she has to solve.
First,
there’s a riddle that she needs to answer to proceed to the next level: 1.) If
I drink, I die. If i eat, I am fine. What am I?
When she
has solved the riddle, her phone rings. A creepy voice on the phone tells the
location where she can find the next riddle.
Now she has
arrived to a park next to river Thames where she finds the next question: 2.) What
comes down but never goes up?
After she
has figured out the answer, her phone rings once again. It’s HerculePoirot, who
tells her that he received the same letter as Miss Marple. They decide to solve
the mystery together.
As they are
discussing their strategy, an owl suddenly brings a new letter to them. ‘’This
is inexplicable!’’ Marple cries out while opening the letter.
The letter
has the next riddle: 3.) Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two
legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
When they
have found the answer, Sherlock Holmes joins them. He has the next riddle.
This letter
has a mathematical problem: 4.) 9+9x9-9+9:9? The answer to this question is the
amount of steps they have to take to the North.
After they
have taken the steps, they have arrived at Big Ben. They notice the next riddle
on the wall of Big Ben which says: 5.) What is yours, but others use it?
Now that
they have figured out all the answers to the riddles, they hear their names
screamed from the roof of Buckingham Palace. It is Prince William with his
fiancé, who tells them that they have passed a challenging test. Now they are
the best detectives and are rewarded with diamonds.
RIDDLE 13:THE SURGEON
Two people, a
father and a son got into a severe car accident. The father, who’s a famous
surgeon, dies immediately. The son gets seriously injured, but stays alive.
When the son has been rushed to the hospital, the surgeon who’s about to do the
surgery says: “I can’t operate him, he’s my son!” How is this possible?
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RIDDLE 3: THE SUPER-TRICYCLE
About an hour ago I parked my super tricycle because I went to a shop to buy a car. When I went back, I didn´t remember what number did I parked it in. I need to find it!
Would you please help me?
What parking spot number is my super tricycle parked in?
RIDDLE 5: SURVEY
A pollster goes to a house where it is attended by a
woman and he asks him.
How many children has she got? Three she says.
Which are their ages? The product of the ages is 36
and the sum of the ages is the number of the house. The number of the house is
13.
The pollster goes away but to the moment it returns
and says to the woman that the information that it gave to him is insufficient,
the woman thinks and says to him that the major one studies piano.
This is sufficient in order that the pollster knows
the ages of the children. Which are?
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