The code has four digits. First: strikes for an out in baseball. Second: arms on an octopus. Third: colors in a rainbow. Fourth: the fewest straight sides a closed shape can have. What's the code?
Hint: Solve each clue on its own, then line them up.
Answer3873Three strikes, eight octopus arms, seven rainbow colors and three sides for a triangle give 3873.
A spider, a dog and a parrot are in the room with you. The parrot is standing on one foot. The two-digit code is the total number of legs in the room, not counting yours. What is it?
Hint: Standing on one foot doesn't make a leg disappear.
Answer14The spider has 8 legs, the dog 4 and the parrot 2, even while it stands on one, for a total of 14.
Count only the vowels A, E, I, O and U in each answer to get a four-digit code. 1: the yellow fruit monkeys love. 2: what opens a lock. 3: what you walk through to leave a room. 4: the red fruit everyone calls a vegetable. What's the code?
Hint: Y doesn't count here.
Answer3123BANANA has 3 vowels, KEY has 1, DOOR has 2 (EXIT also has 2) and TOMATO has 3.
A word lock has four letters. The note says: 'LOCK, then ROCK, then me. Change just one letter each time. I'm the thing the dryer always seems to eat.' What's the word?
Hint: It goes on before your shoe.
AnswerSOCKChanging the R in ROCK to S makes SOCK, and socks are famous for vanishing in the dryer.
A coin purse holds one quarter, twice as many dimes as quarters, and one more penny than dimes. The two-digit lock wants the total value in cents. What's the code?
Hint: First work out how many of each coin there are.
Answer48There's 1 quarter (25 cents), 2 dimes (20 cents) and 3 pennies (3 cents), for 48 cents.
I'm a closet that's always cold. I hum all day without singing, my light turns on the moment you open me, and you've never once seen it turn off. The key is inside me. Where is it?
Hint: Is it running? Then you'd better go catch it.
AnswerIn the refrigeratorA fridge is cold, hums, and its light switches on when the door opens and off once it's closed.
I'm always lying, yet I greet every guest with an honest WELCOME. Everyone walks all over me and wipes their feet on my face, and I never complain. The key is under me. Where is it?
Hint: Look down before you knock.
AnswerUnder the doormatA doormat lies at the door, often says WELCOME, and gets walked on and used to wipe shoes.