#1631 - Math Age Problem

Can you find the ages of a son, father and grandfather based on the following facts?
The sum of the ages of grandfather, father and son is 140 years.
The age of son in months is the same as grandfather in years.
The age of the son in days is the same as father in weeks.

The grand father is 84 years old.
The father is 49 years old.
The son is 7 years old.

#1632 - Count Cartons Maths Problem

Adam can fit six large chocolate boxes or nine small chocolate boxes into a carton. How many cartons will he require to put sixty-six chocolate boxes into ?

9

Five cartons for large chocolate boxes = 5 * 6 = 30 chocolate boxes.
Four cartons for small chocolate boxes = 4 * 9 = 36 chocolate boxes.
Thus total number of cartons required = 5 + 4 = 9.

#1633 - Doctor Relationship Riddle

There was a minor accident of a doctors son but the doctor noticed no major injury. After the treatment, the father of that doctors son is sitting with the son of the doctor without the doctor being in the room.

How can this be possible?

The doctor is both the wife and mother.

#1634 - Trick Murder Mystery Riddle

On 26-01-1982, Abish Mattew was murdered at his house near Hauz Khas (Delhi-India) in the afternoon. There were three suspects to the murder and following are the statements that were given by them:

Harish: I visited my village that day.
Lokesh: I was out to deposit my house tax in municipality office that time.
Saurabh: I was at friend place having lunch at that time.

Can you find out who is the murderer?

Lokesh is the culprit.
This is because 26 Jan is a national holiday.

#1635 - Direction Puzzle

If we change the South-East direction into North and North-East into West and all others similarly.
Can you find out which direction will be in the place of South-West direction?

If South-East is changing into North, the entire direction figure is rotating 135 degrees anticlockwise. Thus, South-West will be in the place of East.

#1636 - How Many Toffees Maths Problem

Roy needs to purchase 100 toffees from three different shops and he has exactly 100 rupees to do that which he must spend entirely. He must buy at least 1 toffee from each shop.

The first shop is selling each toffee at 5 paise, the second is selling at 1 rupee and the third is selling at 5 rupees.

How many toffees should he buy from each shop?

Roy should buy 80 toffees from the first shop, 1 toffee from the second shop and 19 toffees from the third shop

#1637 - Odd Number Riddle

Can you find the odd number in the following five choices?

1) 482636
2) 259807
3) 865195
4) 104739
5) 391744

The odd number from the list is 104739 i.e. the fourth option.

If you look closely, you will find that the last three digits of all the numbers except the fourth add up to a total of 15.

#1638 - Nine Chocolates Trick Teaser

There are nine chocolates in a box. Nine people take nine chocolates with them. However, one chocolate is still left in the box.

How can that be possible ?

This is pretty simple. The last person took the box along with the chocolate inside the box. Thus, one still remains in the box.

#1639 - Find Out Who I Am

I possess a head
I flaunt a tail
But I dont have no mouth or legs

Can you find out who I am?

It is a coin. The two sides are denoted as head and tail.

#1640 - How Many Animals Maths Puzzle

A cricket has 6 legs, a squirrel has 4 legs and a spider has 8 legs.

In a local zoo, it was found that the total number of legs is 612. Also, there are equal number of each of the above animals/insects.

Can you find out how many animals are there in the zoo?

There are a total of 102 animals and 34 of each kind.

Since we know that the number of each animal is equal. Therefore, each cricket, squirrel and spider will be having 18 legs.

Now, 612/18 = 34 of each animal.

Therefore, number of animals in total = 34 * 3 = 102.