MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES

1. Mathematical riddle for children: the plane and the fighter

At an undetermined point in the Pacific Ocean, a commercial

plane and a military fighter cross paths. With this information,
you have to deduce what the pilots' names are.

2. Enigma for children: water and the strainer

Juan set himself the challenge of transporting water in a

strainer from the kitchen to the living room of his house without
a single drop of water falling on the floor. Juan got it, how did
he do it?

3. Logic question: suspenders

In Palazuelo del Campo all the farmers wear colored

suspenders. That worked so well that in the neighboring town,
in Carretas del Campo, farmers also began to wear colored
suspenders. What were they used for?

4. The riddle of the birds

There are seven birds on a power line cable. A hunter passing

by shoots and kills two of them. How many birds are left on the
wire?

5. Logic puzzle for children: the bus

Imagine that you are driving a bus. At the first stop 22 people
get on. In the next one, two go down and five go up. At the third
stop, 15 people get on and 10 get off. And in the fourth 5 people
get on and no one gets off. What is the name of the bus driver?

6. The enigma of the impossible sum

Look at this sum: 10 + 5 = 3. Only in one case is this operation

correct, when?

7. Mathematical puzzle for children with the hours

What time is it if a third of the hours that have passed remain in

the day?
8. Mathematical logic puzzle for children: The chess game

Three friends played chess. In total they played 3 games, how

many chess games did each one play?

9. Children's math puzzle: adding euros

You have two coins that add up to three euros, but one of them
is not a euro. What coins are they?

10. Mathematical multiples puzzle

How many multiples of 4 are there between 1000 and 2000,

inclusive?

11. Backwards number

What is that number that, if you turn it upside down, is worth

less?

12. Math Riddle for Kids: Subtract

How many times can you subtract 1 from the number 1111?

13. Riddle for children: baskets and apples

If Pedro can pick four baskets of apples in one hour and Antonio
can pick two, how many baskets will they pick together in one
hour?

14. Mathematical problem with euros

Between Marcos, Nicolás and Ernesto they have 50 euros. If

Ernesto has twice as much as Nicolás and Nicolás has three
times as much as Marcos, how many euros does Marcos have?

15. Bike tour

Carmen goes to work every day by bicycle since there is a bike

lane and it is practically empty. It usually takes an hour and
twenty minutes to get to work, but when you return it takes only
80 minutes, how is that possible?

16. Mathematical puzzle for children: numbers and figures

What is the only number that has as many letters as its number
indicates?

17. Mathematical puzzle for children

If a rooster lays 3 eggs every 2 days. How many days will it take
4 roosters to lay 2 dozen eggs?

18. The candy math puzzle

Estrella has a bag with candy. All are mint except two. All are
strawberry except two and all are lemon except two. Do you
know how many candies and what flavors are in Juan's bag?

Solutions to mathematical puzzles for children

1. The plane and the fighter: they are called by radio
control.

2. The water and the strainer: the water it carried was

inside the strainer, but not a single drop fell because it
was frozen.

3. The suspenders: they used the suspenders to hold up

the pants.

4. The birds: did you say five? Actually there are none
left. When the hunter fired, those who did not die fled,
scared by the shot.

5. The bus: what's it called?... like you! The math puzzle

began by saying "imagine you are driving a bus."

6. The impossible sum : it is correct when working with

hours. That is, 10 hours + 5 hours is 15 hours, that is, 3 in
the afternoon.

7. Mathematical riddle with the hours : it is 6 in the

afternoon since 18 hours have passed and 6 remain,
therefore, there remains a third of the hours that have
already passed.
8. The chess game: each played two games: player A
with player B, player A with player C and player B with
player C.

9. Adding euros : you have a 1 euro coin and another 2

euro coin. The statement of this mathematical logic
problem said that one of the coins was not a euro... but
the other was!

10. Mathematical multiples : there are 251, have you

obtained this result?

11. Upside down number: it's 9, if you turn it around it

becomes... a 6!

12. Subtract: You can subtract only once. When you do it

it will be 1110 and not 1111.

13. Baskets and apples: together they will not collect

any.

14. Problem with euros: Marcos has 5 euros. Nicolás has

three times more, therefore, he is 15, and Ernesto has
twice as much, that is, 30. The sum of everything gives
us the 50 euros that the three of them have between
them.

15. Bike tour: Carmen takes exactly the same time. One
hour and twenty minutes is the same as 80 minutes.

16. Numbers and figures: five (it has five letters, the
same as its value).

17. Mathematical puzzle : roosters cannot lay eggs.

18. The candies: Did he give you 6? This mathematical

riddle is tricky and can easily lead to error. In reality,
Estrella only has 3 candies: one strawberry, one lemon
and one mint. This is how it works: all are strawberry
except two, all are mint except two, and all are lemon
except two.
25 logic riddles for children: test their reasoning
ability
1. What can you put between a 3 and a 4 to give you a number
greater than 3 but less than 4?

2. Two parents and two children are packed into a car, but there
are only 3 people, how is it possible?

3. In a large meadow there is a hat, a carrot, two branches, two

buttons and a scarf. How did these objects get there and, more
importantly, why?

4. What amazing invention allowed people to see through walls?

5. Three men were in a boat, it capsized and all three fell into
the water but only one got his hair wet, why?

6. What is made of water but if you put it in water, it will die?

7. There is a rooster sitting on top of a sloping roof, if it lays an

egg, where would it roll?

8. A man calls his dog from the other bank of the river. The dog
crosses without getting wet and has not crossed a bridge or
used a boat, how did he do it?

9. What was the largest island in the world before Australia was
discovered?

10. A woman is sitting at night in her house, there are no lights

on, she has no candles, no flashlights, nor is it a clear,
illuminated night. However, you are reading, how is it possible?

11. Where can you find cities, towns, shops and streets, but
there are no people?

12. Two girls have the same parents, and were born at the same
time on the same day in the same month, but they are not twins.
How is it possible?

13. How do you say...? The yolk of the eggs is white or the yolk
of the eggs is white.
14. You are in a basement and three old wooden doors lead
outside. Behind the first door is a tiger that hasn't eaten in 5
months. Behind the second door is a cowboy with a loaded gun.
And behind the third door a pirate with his saber is waiting for
you. What door can you pass through without getting hurt?

15. You kick a ball, it goes 5 meters away and comes back
directly to you without anyone returning it to you, why?

16. Arnold Schwarzenegger's is really long, Michael J's. Fox is

very short, Mickey Mouse's is not human and Madonna does not
have one, what is it?

17. An electric train is going north at 200 kilometers per hour

and there is a strong south wind. In which direction does the
smoke from the train travel?

18. María's mother has five daughters: Sara, Ana, Mia, Isabel...
What is the name of the fifth daughter?

19. On Sunday there are 27 fish in Peter's aquarium. Something

very unusual happens overnight.

- Seven fish drown.

- Three fish swim away.
- And two fish hide under a stone forever.

How many fish are still in the aquarium on Monday?

20. What has 88 keys, but can't open a single door?

21. A woman is trapped in a room. The room only has two

possible exits: two doors. If you go through the first door, you
come to a room built with a magnifying glass. The scorching sun
instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the
second you reach a room where there is a fire-breathing dragon.
How does the woman come out?

22. There are two cats in front of a cat, two cats behind a cat,
and a cat in the middle. How many cat are?

23. 2 days ago it was Sunday. Yesterday was Monday. What day
is tomorrow?
24. What is so fragile that just saying its name breaks it?

25. What number goes in the place of the question mark? 1 2 4 7

11 16 ?

Answers to logic puzzles for kids

1. What can you put between a 3 and a 4 to give you a number
greater than 3 but less than 4? You can put a period or a
comma. Thus we will have 3.4 which is more than 4 but less
than 4.

2. Two parents and two children are packed in a car, but there
are only 3 people, how is it possible? They are the grandfather,
the father and the son, in short, two parents and two children,
but only 3 people.

3. How did these objects get there and, more importantly, why?
The children used all those things in winter to build a snowman.
When it got warmer, the snowman melted and the objects were
left in the meadow.

4. What amazing invention allowed people to see through walls?

Logical... the windows!

5. Three men fell from a boat but only one got his hair wet, why?
The other two were bald, they had no hair to get wet.

6. What is made of water but if you put it in water, it will die? It

is ice, as it takes the temperature of the water it will go from
solid to liquid and will no longer be an ice cube.

7. A rooster lays an egg, where will it roll? Have you seen a

rooster lay an egg? Roosters do not lay eggs.

8. How did the dog cross? The river was frozen and the dog was
able to cross without getting wet.

9. The largest island in the world before Australia was

discovered ...it was still Australia but it had not yet been
discovered.

10. A woman can read in the dark, how is it possible? She is

blind and is reading in Braille.
11. Where are there cities, towns, houses... but there are no
people? On a map.

12. How is it possible if they are not twins? The girls are sisters
but were born in different years.

13. How do you say...? The yolk of the eggs is white or the yolk
of the eggs is white. Answer: None, the yolk of the eggs is
yellow.

14. What door can you pass through without getting hurt? Door
number 1 is the correct answer. Because a tiger that hasn't
eaten in the last 5 months has surely starved to death long ago.

15. The ball comes back, why? This logic riddle has a very
logical answer... you threw it up!

16. Arnold Schwarzenegger's one is really long... what is it? It's

the last name.

17. In which direction does the smoke from the train travel? As
far as we know, electric trains are smokeless.

18. What is the name of the fifth daughter? Maria.

19. How many fish are still in the aquarium on Monday? There
are still 27 fish in the aquarium on Monday! The fish cannot
drown, the fish are in an aquarium, they are not going to swim
anywhere and the ones under the stone are still in the
aquarium.

20. What has 88 keys, but can't open a single door? A piano.

21. How does the woman escape? Wait until night and then go
through the first door.

22. How many cats are there? There are 3 cats.

23. What day is tomorrow? Tomorrow is Wednesday.

24. What is so fragile that just saying its name breaks it? The
silence.
25. What number goes in the place of the question mark? The
number 22. You always have to add a higher number / +1 +2 +3 +
4 +5 +6.

Christmas riddles for all ages

Logic puzzle 1: Santa Claus and the three doors

Santa Claus has to enter a house where there is no chimney, so

he uses the front door to enter. In front of him is a long hallway
with three doors. You cannot leave gifts in the hallways, so you
will have to choose one of them to leave them in a room.
However, when he gets closer he sees that there are signs on
each of the doors: on the first there is a sign that says; "There is
a devastating fire here"; On the second door there is a sign that
says: "Be careful, there are murderers inside with dangerous
weapons"; and in the third it says "Lions that have not eaten in
a year."

Santa Claus thought for a few seconds and came up with the
solution, he entered the correct door, left the gifts and came out
completely unscathed to continue distributing gifts. As it did?

Christmas Riddle 2: Santa's Socks

Santa Claus has to get dressed to go out to deliver gifts but the
room is dark. You have twelve white socks and twelve red
socks in a drawer, and without looking, how many socks should
you grab from the drawer to make sure you have a pair that
matches?

Christmas Riddle 3: What day is today?

Santa Claus has posed a challenge this year to the elves who
help him prepare the gifts:

Dear ones, whoever solves this challenge will be able to

accompany me on my sleigh to distribute the gifts: What day of
the week is today (Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday) if
one of the statements is false?

 Today is neither Sunday nor Wednesday.

 Tomorrow is not Sunday, nor Wednesday.
  Yesterday was not Friday.
 Monday was not the day before yesterday, nor was
Sunday.

Christmas Riddle 4: The Bear

A bear walks 10 km. towards the south, 10 towards the east and
10 towards the north, returning to the point from which he
started. What color is the bear?

Christmas Riddle 5: The Three Wise Men and the Bridge

On their way to Bethlehem, the Three Wise Men have to cross a

bridge. When they are halfway through, a huge giant appears.
He gives them a terrible look and says:

- Where do you think you are going? said the giant.

- We are going to Bethlehem, to give some presents to the Baby

Jesus who has already been born, Melchior responded.

- You cannot pass, replied the ogre, this is my bridge.

- Can we do something so that you let us pass? Gaspar added.

- Tell me a sentence, if it is false, I will throw you off the bridge

and you will die in the fall. If it's true, I'll finish you off right
here.

Baltasar remained thoughtful and immediately knew what to

say. He said the phrase and the giant had no choice but to let
them cross the bridge and continue on their way. What did
Baltasar say?

Riddle 6. The shepherd who travels to Bethlehem

A shepherd leaves his cabin at dawn to Bethlehem to meet the

Baby Jesus, arriving after a journey of several hours. He stays
to rest and sleep, and leaves Bethlehem in the morning at the
same time to return to his cabin.

Perhaps it did not take him the same time to go as he did to

return, and it makes no difference whether his speed was not
constant or when and how many times he stopped to rest, but
the shepherd passed some point along the way at exactly the
same time, but a day apart. Because?

Christmas Riddle 7: Santa's Successor

Santa Claus was tired after several centuries of delivering gifts

on Christmas night. He wanted to retire and pass his magic on
to someone else. Since he had no children, he set up a test to
find the new Santa Claus, the one who could do almost
anything.

The test was quite simple. He placed a gift inside his enormous
red sack and he arranged it on a tapestry 6 meters wide by 6
meters long that rested on the floor.

Santa Claus's successor should be able to grab the gift with his
hand, without using any tools other than his hands and without
hanging from above. One last rule: I couldn't step on the
tapestry.

Days passed and no one got the gift stuffed in a sack on a huge
tapestry. When Santa Claus thought that no one would make it,
a man very similar to him came in and got the gift. As it did?

Christmas Riddle: Murder on the Polar Express

The Polar Express is crossing the forest on its way to Lapland.

Inside, Alberto seems to be sleeping in his seat, but someone
knows that he is not sleeping. Upon arriving at the station,
everyone gets off except Alberto.

The driver approaches and touches him on the shoulder to wake

him up. Alberto does not respond. Is dead.

A while later, the 4 people who were traveling with Alberto in

his car had their statements taken at the police station.

A well-dressed man says: I am innocent. The blonde woman was

talking to Alberto.

The blonde woman says: I am innocent. I never spoke with

Alberto.
A poorly dressed man says: I am innocent. The murderer is the
dark woman.

The dark woman says: I am innocent. One of the men is the

murderer.

The police officer went to the cafeteria to eat something and

the waiter told him:

- A difficult case, Mr. Inspector?

- Not at all. I have 4 true statements and four false ones. I know
who killed Alberto.

Solutions to Christmas riddles

Solution to riddle 1: Santa Claus and the three doors

Santa Claus entered the third room, if those lions hadn't eaten
in a year, then they were dead.

Solution to riddle 2: Santa's socks

Stockings do not have a left or right side, so any white sock can
go with another white one and any red sock can go with any red
one. If Santa takes three socks and they are black or white, he
will at least have two of the same color, giving him a matching
pair.

Solution to riddle 3: What day is it today?

Today it is Sunday.

Solution to riddle 4: The bear

The color of the bear is white, it is a polar bear. Because? The

only places where the condition of returning to the starting
point is met are: the North Pole and any point located 10 km
north of the
parallels measuring 10 km in circumference. In this way, when
the bear walks 10 km east it will return to the starting point. In
any of these cases it will be at one of the Poles, so the bear will
be white.
Solution to riddle 5: the three Wise Men and the bridge

Gaspar said, "You're going to throw us off the bridge."

If the phrase were true, then it would have to put an end to the
Three Wise Men. But if he finished them off right there, then he
couldn't throw them off the bridge, and the sentence would
become false.

With this phrase, Baltasar managed to stop the giant from

carrying out either of the two actions because he entered into
his own contradiction.

Solution to riddle 6: the shepherd who travels to Bethlehem

These are two shepherds who leave at the same time from
opposite points: if they follow the same path, at some point they
will have to cross paths. It seems obvious now, right?

Solution to riddle 7: Santa Claus's successor

Santa Claus watched in amazement as the would-be Santa

Claus began to carefully roll up the tapestry, little by little, the
distance shortening, until finally, he simply reached out and
took the gift inside the sack with his hand. Santa Claus already
had a successor.

Solution to Christmas Riddle 8: Murder on the Polar Express

According to the police, three statements of innocence are true.

There remains a fourth that must also be true and that must be
between whether the blonde woman spoke or did not speak
with Alberto, only one of the two is true.

At this point, the other statements that the dark woman killed
him and that some man killed him must be false. If it wasn't a
man and it wasn't the brunette, then Alberto's killer on the Polar
Express was the blonde woman.

37 logic questions with answers to test children

and adults
Ingenious logic riddles to stimulate your logic and reasoning
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We challenge you with these clever logic questions with

answers to test your reasoning ability. They are riddles for
children and adults that will stimulate your intelligence and
common sense. Don't cheat and don't look at the answer before
answering.

You just have to analyze these logic questions very well before
answering because these fun riddles have some hidden traps.
Shall we begin?

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Index

1. Clever logic questions for children and adults

2. More logic riddles to sharpen your wits
3. Other logic questions to stimulate reasoning
4. More logic games for children and adults

Clever logic questions for children and adults

Are you ready to face this logic test? Read these logic questions
carefully and try to apply common sense when answering.

1. If you have a cube and each edge is 5 centimeters long, how many
square centimeters are there between the eight sides?

Answer: Eight sides? In reality, cubes have 6 sides.

2. What thing is there once in a minute, twice in a moment and none in an

hour?
Answer: The letter M.

3. A woman is sitting in a house at night with no lights. There is no lamp,

no candle, nothing. However, she is reading. As?

Answer: The woman is blind and is reading Braille.

4. Is it correct to say the yolk of eggs is white or the yolk of eggs are white?

Answer: None, the yolk of the eggs is yellow.

5. In a pink one-story house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink
fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink phone, a pink
shower. Everything was pink! What color were the stairs?

Answer: There were no stairs, it was a one-story house.

6. What invention allows you to look through a wall?

Answer: it is logical… a window .

7. A man appears dead in the middle of a field, there is no one or anything

around him, just a backpack at his feet. how did he die?

Answer: he jumped from a parachute and it did not open, it is

the backpack that is next to his feet.

8. Can a man marry his widow's sister?

Answer: Impossible, the man is dead.

9. A rooster that is on a fence lays an egg, on one side there is feed and on
the other grass. Which side will the egg fall on?

Answer: Roosters do not lay eggs.

10. How many pairs of animals did Moses take in his ark?

Answer: It wasn't Moses, it was Noah.

11. How many months have 28 days?

Answer: Every month has 28 days.

12. What weighs more? A kilo of lead or a kilo of feathers.

Answer: they weigh the same... one kilo .

13. A father and his son are traveling in a car and have a car accident. The
father is taken to one hospital and the child to another. When the child
arrives, they put him directly into the operating room but the doctor says:
“I'm sorry, I can't operate on him, he's my son.” Because?

Answer: This logic question says a lot about our prejudices, the
doctor who was going to operate on him is his mother.
14. A man goes for a walk when it starts to rain. The man does not have an
umbrella, he is not wearing a hat or a raincoat. All your clothes are soaked
but not a hair on your head. How could this happen?

Answer: The man was bald .

Mysteries that will test your reasoning ability

Logic Puzzle 1: The Mystery of the Night Watchman
Alex is a night watchman, he works seven nights a week in a
car parts factory. Suddenly, a nervous wreck, he goes to his
boss telling him that the night before he dreamed that he was
going to have a train accident. Alex knows that his boss has to
take a trip and warns him not to take the train.

The boss is impressed with the realism of the dream and

decides not to travel. The next day, he read in the news that the
train he was going to travel on had collided with another. He
approaches Alex and thanks him for the warning, gives him a
check with money for having saved his life and then... He fires
him! You know why?

Brain Teaser 2: The Mysterious One-Way Tunnel

In the middle of a mountain in the Alps there is a tunnel in which
there is only a train track. This track is used for trains traveling
in both directions. One day a train passed in one direction and
another in the opposite direction. The strangest thing about the
case is that the trains did not collide, there was no accident.
How is it possible if there is only one way?

Logic Puzzle 3: The Portrait Mystery

Jack is showing his house to some friends and they all stand in
front of the portrait of a man. Seeing the doubt on their faces,
Jack anticipates the question and says:
I have no sisters or brothers, but this man's father is my father's
son.

What relationship does Jack have with the man in the portrait?

See also: Christmas riddles for the whole family

Logic puzzle 4: The tennis match

Two people play a tennis match, they agree that the best of five
sets will win. At the end of the match, the two people have won
3 sets each, how can it be?

Logic puzzle 5: The car without headlights

A car was driving at full speed without lights down a narrow
street where all the streetlights were broken. Suddenly, a
pedestrian crossed the street without looking. To make matters
worse, the pedestrian was dressed completely in black, which
didn't help much. However, the driver was able to see him
without problem and avoided him, thus avoiding a serious
accident. How could it be?

Riddle 6: The cat that had 7 lives

A very naughty cat, he always used to play by the window of a
20-story building and nothing had ever happened to him.
However, that day, its owner carelessly left the window open
and the poor cat fell to the ground. Incredibly, he survived the
fall and also, he didn't have a single scratch. How could that be?

Logic Mystery 7: The Riddle of Adam and Eve

A person reaches heaven and begins to look for Saint Peter to
tell him what to do and where to go. There he finds a lot of
people, no one is dressed, everyone appears calm and there is
peace and calm. While people-watching, he sees a couple he
immediately recognizes. It's Adam and Eve, how did he do it?

Logical Reasoning 8: The Right Hand

What part of the body you can touch with your right hand, but
you could never touch it with your left hand.
Riddle 9: Find the word
Which word means one thing if you write its initial in capital
letters, but a very different thing if you write it in lower case.

Solutions to logic puzzles

Did you find these logic puzzles easy or difficult? Let's see how
many mysteries you have managed to solve and what level your
deductive ability is at. Here are the solutions to the puzzles:

The mystery of the night watchman: Alex worked at night, every

night of the week, but instead of watching the factory premises,
he had fallen asleep. Although sleep saved his life, the boss
considered him not a good worker for falling asleep on his shift.

The mysterious one-way tunnel: Did the logic puzzle mention

that the two trains passed on the same day at the same time?
Therein lies the catch, each train passed at different times or on
different days and, therefore, they did not collide.

The mystery of the portrait: Jack is the father of the man who
appears in the photograph, therefore, the portrait is of his son.

The tennis match: These two people played the match as a

couple, which was a doubles match, therefore, both have
achieved 3 sets.

The car without headlights: logic puzzles always try to trick our
mind. It is possible that you thought it was night when you gave
certain clues such as no lights, broken streetlights, and the man
dressed in black. But at no point is this mentioned. It was
daytime and, therefore, the driver was able to avoid the
pedestrian without problem.

The cat that had 7 lives: although it is mentioned that the

building has 20 floors, who said that the cat was on the 20th
floor? Or the 17th? The cat was in the first floor window and
when it fell, absolutely nothing happened to it.

The enigma of Adam and Eve: this couple that appears in the
Old Testament is different from all other human beings, they
were not born from anyone's womb, therefore, there is an
element that they do not possess, the navel. This is how the
man recognized them.

The right hand: With your left hand you could never touch the
left elbow, have you tried it yet?

Find the word: Sea, it is a girl's name if you write its initial in
capital letters, but it means a body of water that covers the
earth, if you write it in lower case.