Ages 10–12 Riddles — Brain Champs

1. #1 Wordplay

   A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 run away. How many sheep does the farmer have left?

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2. #2 Logic Puzzle

   Two fathers and two sons go fishing together. Each of them catches exactly one fish, but they only bring home 3 fish in total. How is that possible?

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3. #3 Wordplay

   What comes once in a minute, twice in every moment, but never once in a thousand years?

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4. #4 Wordplay

   I am an odd number. Take away just one letter from my name, and I become even. What number am I?

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5. #5 Math Puzzle

   It's 3:15 on a clock. What is the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand, in degrees?

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6. #6 Wordplay

   You spot a boat full of people out on the lake, yet you can honestly say there isn't a single person on board. How can that be?

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7. #7 Logic Puzzle

   You have two ropes and a lighter. Each rope takes exactly 60 minutes to burn all the way through, but they burn unevenly — some parts fast, some parts slow. How can you measure exactly 45 minutes?

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8. #8 Math Puzzle

   I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?

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9. #9 Wordplay

   What five-letter word becomes shorter every time you add two letters to it?

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10. #10 Logic Puzzle

    A man is looking at a photograph and says: "I have no brothers and no sisters, but this man's father is my father's son." Whose photo is he looking at?

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11. #11 Math Puzzle

    Using only the digit 8 and the plus sign, how can you add together eight 8s to make exactly 1,000?

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12. #12 Wordplay

    Here's a word puzzle: the first two letters name a male, the first three letters name a female, the first four letters name a great person, and the whole word names a great woman. What's the word?

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13. #13 Logic Puzzle

    A red house is built from red bricks. A blue house is built from blue bricks. A pink house is built from pink bricks. What is a greenhouse built from?

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14. #14 Math Puzzle

    Pick any number. Double it, add 10, divide the result by 2, then subtract your original number. No matter what number you start with, you'll always end up with the same answer. What is it?

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15. #15 Logic Puzzle

    You're standing inside a one-story house where absolutely everything is pink — the walls, the furniture, even the curtains. What color are the stairs?

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16. #16 Logic Puzzle

    A man is pushing his car when he stops at a hotel — and suddenly realizes he's bankrupt. What's going on?

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17. #17 Logic Puzzle

    A girl says she is 10 years old, but she has only celebrated 2 birthdays. How is that possible?

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18. #18 Logic Puzzle

    What can you hold in your left hand, but never in your right hand?

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19. #19 Logic Puzzle

    Which is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

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20. #20 Math Puzzle

    Can you find three positive whole numbers where adding them together gives you the exact same result as multiplying them together?

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