When does 9 + 5 equal 2?
Hint: Look at the wall.
Answer
On a clock
Five hours after 9 o'clock is 2 o'clock.
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How many times does the digit 9 appear in the numbers from 1 to 100?
Hint: Don't forget the 90s.
Answer
20 times
9 appears in the ones place 10 times (9, 19… 99) and in the tens place 10 times (90–99).
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Lily pads on a pond double in size every day. On day 48, the pond is completely covered. On which day was it half covered?
Hint: Work backward one day.
Answer
Day 47
If the pads double daily, the pond was half covered the day before it was full.
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A rope ladder hangs off the side of a boat with four rungs underwater. The tide rises two feet. How many rungs are underwater now?
Hint: What happens to the boat?
Answer
Still four
The boat floats, so it rises with the tide, and the ladder rises with it.
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I'm a single digit. Turn me upside down and I'm worth three more. What number am I?
Hint: Picture me on a calculator.
Answer
Six
A 6 turned upside down becomes a 9, which is three more.
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A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long will they last?
Hint: You take the first one right away.
Answer
One hour
You take one now, one at 30 minutes and the last at 60 minutes.
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What's half of two plus two?
Hint: Do the half first.
Answer
Three
Half of two is one, and one plus two is three.
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Your phone is at 1%. You plug it in at 9 p.m., and at 7 a.m. it's still at 1%. The charger and the outlet both work. What happened?
Hint: What did you do right before bed?
Answer
The outlet is controlled by a light switch, and you turned it off
Some outlets are wired to a wall switch, so switching off the light cuts the power.
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Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish, but only three fish are caught in total. How?
Hint: Count the generations.
Answer
They're a grandfather, a father and a son
The father is both a father and a son, so there are only three people.
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How far can a dog run into the woods?
Hint: Think about the middle.
Answer
Halfway. After that, it's running out of the woods.
Once the dog passes the middle, it's heading out, not in.
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Which is heavier: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
Hint: Read the amounts again.
Answer
Neither. They both weigh a ton.
A ton is a ton, whatever it's made of.
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A truck driver goes the wrong way down a one-way street. A police officer sees him but doesn't stop him. Why not?
Hint: Who said he was driving?
Answer
He was walking
The truck driver was on foot, so he didn't break any traffic rule.
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