Grow your knowledge with the help of the below easy and hard logic puzzles, and riddles with answers.
Logic Puzzles With Answers For Kids And Students
1. If a rooster lays an egg on the exact peak of a barn, which side does it fall on? Answer: Roosters don’t lay eggs.
2. I make two people out of one. What am I? Answer: A mirror.
3. I am white and I am black. I am fast and I am not fat. I confuse many people with my style. Who am I? Answer: Zebra.
4. Five people were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order? Answer: CABDE. Putting the first three in order, A finished in front of B but behind C, so CAB. Then, we know D finished before B, so CABD. We know E finished after D, so CABDE.
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5. A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie, and Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby, or Tilly? Answer: Tilly. She seems to follow the scale Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, La, and then Ti.
6. A girl meets a lion and unicorn in the forest. The lion lies every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and the other days he speaks the truth. The unicorn lies on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and on the other days of the week, he speaks the truth. “Yesterday I was lying,” the lion told the girl. “So was I,” said the unicorn. What day is it? Answer: Thursday. The only day they both tell the truth is Sunday, but today can’t be Sunday because the lion also tells the truth on Saturday (yesterday). Going day by day, the only day one of them is lying and one of them is telling the truth with those two statements is Thursday.
7. A few sheets were torn out of a magazine: from page 3 to page 8. How many sheets were torn out? Answer: 3
8. A cowboy rides into town on Friday. He stays three days, then rides out of town on Friday. How? Answer: The horse’s name was Friday
9. A brother and a sister were born in summer and in winter. The sister was not born in winter. Who was born in the summer? Answer: The sister.
10. A bad guy is playing Russian roulette with a six-shooter revolver. He puts in one bullet, spins the chambers, and fires at you, but no bullet comes out. He gives you the choice of whether or not he should spin the chambers again before firing a second time. Should he spin again? Answer: Yes. Before he spins, there’s a one in six chance of a bullet being fired. After he spins, one of those chances has been taken away, leaving a one-in-five chance and making it more likely a bullet will be fired. Best to spin again.
11. There are four floors in the building. The higher the floor, the more people live there. Which floor does the elevator go to most often? Answer: To the 1st (zero) floor.
12. The giraffe is taller than the kangaroo but shorter than the palm. Which animal is the tallest? Answer: The giraffe.
13. The elevator can carry no more than 6 adults or no more than 9 children. What is the maximum number of children that can get into the elevator with 2 adults? Answer: 6.
14. The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today? Answer: Friday. The “day before tomorrow” is today; “the day before two days after” is really one day after. So if “one day after today is Saturday,” then it must be Friday.
15. Same situation, but two bullets are put in consecutive chambers. Should you tell the bad guy to spin the chambers again? Answer: No. With two bullets, you have two chances in six (or one in three) to get hit with a bullet before he fires the first time. Because we know the previous round was one of four empty chambers, that leaves four positions the gun could now be in, with only one followed by a bullet; therefore leaving you with a one in four chance the second round will fire. Since one in four is better odds than one in three, he shouldn’t spin again.
16. There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many ducks are there? Answer: Three. Two ducks are in front of the last duck; the first duck has two ducks behind; one duck is between the other two.
17. It occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour. Answer: The letter M
18. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister? Answer: No, because he’s dead
19. Is it correct to say “the yolk of eggs is white” or “the yolk of eggs is white”? Answer: Neither, the yolk of eggs is yellow.
20. In the picture there are Charlie, Kate, and Phoebe. The girls are not standing next to each other. What mask is Charlie wearing? Answer: Frog.
21. If you have a cube, each edge two inches long, how many total square inches are there among all eight sides? Answer: Hard to say since cubes have six sides.
22. You’re at a fork in the road in which one direction leads to the City of Lies (where everyone always lies) and the other to the City of Truth (where everyone always tells the truth). There’s a person at the fork who lives in one of the cities, but you’re not sure which one. What question could you ask the person to find out which road leads to the City of Truth? Answer: “Which direction do you live?” Someone from the City of Lies will lie and point to the City of Truth; someone from the City of Truth would tell the truth and also point to the City of Truth.
23. What loses its head in the morning and gets it back at night? Answer: A pillow.
24. What letter comes next: O T T F F S S ? Answer: The letter E
25. What is the one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth? What is it? Answer: The Words “And”
26. What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? Answer: Eat
27. This one could also fall in the lying/truth category. A man is caught on the king’s property. He is brought before the king to be punished. The king says, “You must give me a statement. If it is true, you will be killed by lions. If it is false, you will be killed by the trampling of wild buffalo. If I can’t figure it out, I’ll have to let you go.” Sure enough, the man was released. What was the man’s statement? Answer: “I will be killed by trampling of wild buffalo.” This stumped the king because if it’s true, he’ll be killed by lions, which would render the statement not true. If it’s a lie, he’d be killed by wild buffalo, which would make it a truth. Since the king had no solution, he had to let the man go.
28. Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is. Answer: Language
29. There’s a variation that goes as follows: A man, his wife, and their son are in a car accident. They are all rushed to the hospital and the doctor says, “I can’t operate on him, he’s my son.” Answer: The doctor is the man’s father and the boy’s grandfather.
30. There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost? Answer: $45. The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to spell the item.
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