Raine was trying to reset her wrist-watch one afternoon, after it had stopped running the day before. Even though she didn’t know what the real time was, her father had given her a clue. “The right time is calculated by adding 1/4 of the time since noon today to 1/2 of the time till midnight […]

Melvin the wizard has some magic blue orbs. Every day 1 disappears.Every 2 days 1 goes green.Every 4 days 1 green orb disappears instead of another blue one.From these facts, determine what the ratio of blue to green (or vice versa) orbs remaining is from the beginning to the end of February in the Year

You’re driving your car on the highway at 75 mph, and you notice a sign that says you are 75 miles from your destination. So if you continue driving at that speed, you’d be there in an hour.When you have driven one mile and you are now 74 miles from your destination, you drop your

Philpot Nerdling collects baseball cards and keeps them in a three-ring binder. Rather than regular pages made of paper, the binder contains plastic sleeves that are large enough to hold nine cards per page, arranged in a 3×3 grid. Cards numbered 1 through 9 are on the first page, 10 through 18 on the second

A man makes the following proposition to his friend:“I will let you flip a coin 20 times. Each time the coin lands on heads, I will give you $2.00. However, each time the coin lands on tails, you must give me $3.00.”His friend flips the coin 20 times and the end result is that no

Pating and his wife are at the entrance of their sub-division. Their sub-division is actually just a long straight road with no side streets. Their house is1 kilometre away from the entrance. While waiting for a cab to take them home, Pating decides to walk his way to their house (he needs the exercise) leaving

Gino’s mom has told him that he needs to take a bucket of water over to their neighbour since she is experiencing problems with her water supply. He doesn’t want to waste much time since he has a soccer game to play later in the afternoon. From past experience he knows if he uses the

As Mr. Smith’s birthday approaches, he starts to collect leaves. On the first day of the month, he collects one leaf; on the second day, he collects two; and so on. So by his birthday he’ll have collected 276 leaves altogether. On which day of the month is Mr. Smith’s birthday? AnswerOn the 23rd.

Lester and Terance each have marble collections. The number in Lester’s collection is a square number (1,4,9,16, etc.). Lester says to Terance, “If you give me all of your marbles, I’ll still have a square number.” Terance replies, “If you gave me the number in my collection, you would still be left with a square.”

A man is standing on a rock in the middle of a circular lake of radius 1. There is a tiger on the shore of the lake that can run four times as fast you can swim; however, the tiger cannot swim. The tiger is hungry and always attempts to keep the distance between the

When the popcorn vendor of a circus went on vacation, Charlie the Chimp saw it as the perfect opportunity to start a new act, so he volunteered to man the stand. Everything was going great until the very end of the day, when a set of twins showed up. There was just 1 large box

X likes to buy and sell cars. For two weeks he bought 5 cars every 12 hours. Then, on June 2nd, he decided to start selling. Every day, he would sell 6 cars, then buy 2. But every third day, he would sell 5 cars and buy 3. X decided that he would shut down

Little Johnny was pestering his big brother for some candy. He knew that his brother had several pieces and wanted some.His brother had Quick Quackers, Tangy Toffees, Fizzy Booms, Apple Chewies, Purple Plops, Zounds!, Sour Screams and Buzzy Bites.Little Johnny’s favourites were Tangy Toffee and Quick Quackers. His brother said he’d give him all of

Chanelle has won 429 games and lost 431 games of her favourite computer card game.If she wins 3 out of every 4 games she plays from now on, how many more games must she play to bring her total winning percentage up to 55%? AnswerChanelle must play 220 more games. In these 220 games, she

Five years ago, Anthony was three times as old as his sister. Now he is only twice as old. How old are Anthony and his sister? AnswerAnthony is 20 and his sister is 10. Five years ago he was 15 and she was 5.