#riddles #numberriddles #riddlesforkids

Q.  What becomes smaller when you turn it upside down?

Ans :  The number nine

Q.  There is a man with his horse going to town. The man went to the town on Monday. He stayed there for 3 days and then he came back on Friday. How? His horse was not tired, the man wasn’t sleepy.

Ans :  The horse’s name was Friday.

Q.  What do the numbers 11 and 88 have in common?

Ans :  They both look the same upside-down and backward.

Q.  I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

Ans :  Seven

Q.  If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

Ans :  Nine

Q.  A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three eggs break. How many eggs are left unbroken?

Ans :  Three

Q.  What did the triangle say to the circle?

Ans :  You’re pointless.

Q.  Eggs are $0.12 a dozen. How many eggs can you get for a dollar?

Ans :  100 eggs, at one penny each

Q.  Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

Neither—they both weigh a ton.

Q.  If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?

Ans :  You have two apples.

Q.  How many months of the year have 28 days?

Ans :  All of them, because every month has at least 28 days.

Q.  When things go wrong, what can you always count on?

Ans :  Your fingers

Q.  You’re sitting down for breakfast and realize you have 4 bagels left. You know you’ll run out in four days so you cut them in half. How many bagels do you have now?

Ans :  4 Bagels

Q.  If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?

Ans :  Zero

Q.  What did one math book say to the other math book?

Ans :  Do you want to hear my problems?

Q.  How did the soccer fan know before the game that the score would be 0-0?

Ans :  The score is always 0-0 before the game.

Q.  A man has 9 children. Half of them are boys. How is this possible?

Ans :  They are all boys.

Q.  In an odd little town, was an odd little stream with odd little fish in an odd little team. A stranger approached a local fisherman, and asked him how much his odd little fish weighed. The odd little man replied, “All the fish in this stream weigh exactly 1/2 of a pound plus 1/2 of a fish.” Isn’t that odd? How many pounds does an odd little fish weigh?

Ans :  One

Q.  How many sides does a circle have?

Ans :  Two, the inside and the outside

Q.  If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there?

Ans :  Two because sheep have hooves, dogs have paws, only people have feet.

Q.  A boy blows 18 bubbles,

Then pops 6 eats 7,

And then he pops 5 and blows 1.

How many are left?

Ans :  1

Q.  Why are 1999 ten-pound notes worth more than 1993 ten-pound notes?

Ans :  Because there are more of them

Q.  One year has 365 days. How many seconds are in a year?

Ans :  12 (the second day of each month)

Q.  You have a basket with 20 apples. You have 20 hungry children. Every child should get an apple but one apple should remain in the basket. How do you do that?

Ans :  You give 19 children one apple each and you give the last one the basket containing the last apple.

Q.  How do you divide 10 apples into 11 people?

Ans :  You make applesauce.