Mathematics Puzzles or Riddles

One Link Math`s Riddles(with answers)



  • What is alive and has only 1 foot?

Answer - A leg.


  • When do giraffes have 8 feet?

Answer - When there's two of them.


  • How many eggs can you put in an empty basket?

Answer - Only one, after that the basket is not empty.



  • What coin doubles in value when half is deducted?

Answer - A half dollar.



  • What is the difference between a new penny and an old quarter?

Answer - 24 cents.


  • If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?

Answer - 8.



  • Where can you buy a ruler that is 3 feet long?

Answer - At a yard sale.


  • If there were 9 cats on a bridge and one jumped over the edge, how many would be left?

Answer - None - they are copycats.



  • If you take three apples from five apples, how many do you have?

Answer - You have three apples.


  • What has 4 legs and only 1 foot?

Answer - A bed.


  • How many times can you subtract 6 from 30?

Answer - Once; after that it is no longer 30 (Don't try this in a test!)


  • If one nickel is worth five cents, how much is half of one half of a nickel worth?

Answer - $0.0125


  • How many 9's between 1 and 100?

Answer - 20.


  • Which is more valuable - one pound of $10 gold coins or half a pound of $20 gold coins?

Answer - One pound is twice of half pound.



  • It happens once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year. What is it?

Answer - The letter 'e'.


  • How can half of 12 be 7?

Answer - Cut XII into two halves horizontally. You get VII on the top half.


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

Answer - Your fingers.


  • Why are diapers like 100 dollar bills?

Answer - They need to be changed.


  • A Street that is 40 yards long has a tree every 10 yards on both sides. How many total trees on the entire street?

Answer - 10, 5 on each side.



  • What goes up and never comes down?

Answer - Your age.


  • What did one math book say to the other math book?

Answer - Wow, have I got problems!



  • Why is the longest human nose on record only 11 inches long?

Answer - Otherwise it would be a foot.


 
Einstein's riddle (Solve your self)

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Somebody owns a fish. The question is: who?

Hints:
  • The Brit lives in the red house.
  • The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  • The Dane drinks tea.
  • The green house is on the left and next to the white house.
  • The green homeowner drinks coffee.
  • The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  • The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  • The man living in the center house drinks milk.
  • The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  • The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  • The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  • The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
  • The German smokes Prince.
  • The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  • The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.  
      Answer?