Logic Riddles: Your Turn to Crack
Racket, snail, lily pad: ten riddles where intuition trips you up. Can you outsmart them all?
What this quiz asks
- 1A racket and a ball cost 1.10 € in total. The racket costs 1 € more than the ball. How much is the ball?
- 2Five machines take 5 minutes to make 5 items. How long for 100 machines to make 100 items?
- 3On a pond, a lily pad doubles in size every day and covers the whole pond in 48 days. In how many days does it cover half?
- 4A shepherd owns 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?
- 5Two fathers and two sons go fishing and bring home three fish, one each. How is that possible?
- 6A snail sits at the bottom of a 10-metre well. By day it climbs 3 metres, by night it slips back 2 metres. In how many days does it get out?
- 7Julie's mother has five daughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, Lolo and... ?
- 8A rooster is perched on the ridge of a roof with two equal slopes. Which side does its egg roll down?
- 9Which number logically continues the sequence 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ... ?
- 10You pick one door out of three; a car hides behind one of them. The host, who knows where it is, opens another empty door and offers to let you switch. What do you do?
