none - The Ultimate Riddle Game for Kids: A Mind-Bending Book to Test Your Logic

Chapter 1: Tricky Quick-Hitters

The letter C is the only capital in California.

a field of corn

a deck of cards

a needle

the Mississippi River

snow, rain, or water

a stamp

Coffee, because Esme has two Es, just like all the coffee drinkers.

a fish in a fishbowl or aquarium

a watermelon

She was walking, not driving.

They are in a band, and they are playing a concert where they all get paid.

your legs

It was a bright, sunny day.

Zahara

They all turned right.

Carlos is bald.

Chasity played chess with Darnel.

a chick in an egg

a towel

He is a watchmaker.

They cant be buried because they are still alive.

the match

What time is it?

Sangeeta lives in a one-story apartment, so there are no stairs.

There are 12 seconds in a year: January second, February second, March second, April second, May second, and so on.

Yes, when it is filled with hot chocolate.

None of them, because bananas dont grow on palm trees.

Julie and Laura are fish and their bowl was knocked over.

an egg

Mackenzie was washing a first-floor apartment window, so she was still on the ground.

the car door

a hole

They were used by someone who made a snowperson. The snow has now melted.

There are 11 letters in the alphabet.

You cant use sunglasses to take a photo. You need a camera to take a photo.

They stand back-to-back.

Elsie can draw a smaller square next to it. Now the first square is bigger.

The pond is frozen.

NOON

a pair of eyeglasses

You are the shuttle driver, so the answer is whatever color eyes you have.

New

breath

post office

The letter D . The pattern contains the first letter of each month.

music

the letter v

fire

bacteria

his left elbow

a stapler

the refrigerator door

water

The word letter is different. If you read each word backward, letter is the only one that doesnt make another word.

a pair of pants

a river

your name

a yardstick

a candle

a brain

noise

the future

a clock

an onion

the moon

a fence

a secret

growing older

an echo

a nose

a keyhole

a teapot

Cutlery, a blanket, a basket, or anything else you would use but wouldnt eat at a picnic.

a cold

the word ton

Take the first letter of each word and place it at the end. It will spell the same word backward.

F-O-E

Theyre both the middle of day.

a sound

The letter S . Each letter is the first letter in the numbers eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.

darkness

a shirt

in the dictionary

T-H-A-T

a giraffes shadow

wheat

Chapter 2: Math Monsters

The person to take the last cookie also took the plate.

Take away the s .

When youre looking at a clock. If you start at the number five on a clockface and count eight spots, youll land on the number one.

Nikita is selling address numbers, and they each cost $0.25.

There were six runners. Raquel came in third place.

Ahmed should flip both timers over at the same time, but not start cleaning yet. When the seven-minute timer is up, there are still four minutes left on the other timer. Now he should start cleaning. When the four minutes are up, he can flip the 11-minute timer over and let it run out: 4 + 11 = 15 minutes total.

Three. The grandma is also a mom, and the mom is also a daughter.

Electric trains dont produce smoke.

Neither. They each weigh one pound. A pound is a pound no matter the object.

Zero. In the first inning, Lyssa and the next two batters walk, so bases are loaded. Then the next three strike out, ending the teams time up to bat. In the second inning, the first three players walk, so the bases are loaded again, and Lyssa is back to bat. She strikes out, and so do the next two batters. In the third inning, the first three players walk and the next three strike out. Lyssa is back at the plate at the start of the fourth inning. This pattern is now repeated until the game ends with zero runs.

Chicago

Zero. Grace was the only one going to Los Angeles.

Lucinia is thinking of the numbers one, two, and three. When added together, the sum is six. When multiplied, the product is also six.

December 31; today is January 1.

A $10 bill and a $5 bill. One of the bills isnt a $5 bill, but the other one is.

Her cousin is 12. Half of 12 is six, so Cecilias cousin is six years younger than her. When Cecilia is 18, her cousin is still six years younger and is now 12.

three

Its cheaper to take two friends to one concert because Lee only has to buy three tickets. If she took one friend to two concerts, shed have to buy four tickets in all.

Yes. First, Dad and Papa go, and it takes them two minutes. Then, Dad comes back with the flashlight in one minute. Next, Robin and Suzanna go through in five minutes and hand off the flashlight to Papa. Papa brings the flashlight back to Dad in two minutes. Then, it takes them two minutes to go back through and meet up with their children. Therefore: 2 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 2 = 12.

It will take them no time to fix the roofbecause the roof is already fixed!

The answer is 11 crates. If Estevan mailed a total of 96 boxes, then the jumbo-size boxes in the crates must be a multiple of 8, which means he used either 16 or 56 jumbo-size boxes. Since there are more jumbo-size boxes in the crates then medium-size ones, the number of jumbo-size boxes must be 56. There are 96 56 = 40 medium-size boxes. Then divide the total number of each type of box by how many boxes can fit into a crate to figure out how many crates Estevan used in total: (56 8) + (40 10) = 7 + 4 =11.

20 cents. To calculate the price of each school supply, multiply the number of vowels in the word by 20 cents.

Two students arent wearing outerwear. We know that five students are wearing both a scarf and a jacket. That means three students are wearing only jackets [8 5 = 3] and five students are wearing only scarves [10 5 = 5]. Thats eight students total who are wearing either a jacket or a scarf. 8 + 5 = 13 students are wearing some combination of outerwear, so 15 students 13 students = 2 students are not wearing outerwear.

Rowan would pay $14, or $3.50 per leg.

2,138. The last number is moved to the front to make the next number in the series.

five eggs

Draw a line on the first plus sign to turn it into a four. The equation then becomes true: 742 + 8 = 750.

If Charlotte and Magdalena were on a train that wasnt moving, then Charlottes calculations would have been correct, but their train was moving. After meeting the first train, it took five minutes to meet a second train, but it took the second train five more minutes to reach where Magdalena and Charlotte met the first train. So, the time between trains is 10 minutes, not five, and only six trains arrive in Seattle every hour.

It will take Pilar six hours. In the first hour, Pilar reaches a height of five feet, then falls four feet; thus, ending at the height of one foot. In the second hour, they reach six feet but fall to two feet. In the third hour, Pilar reaches seven feet but falls back to three feet. In the fourth hour, Pilar reaches eight feet but falls back to four feet. In the fifth hour, they reach nine feet but fall back to five feet. In the sixth hour, Pilar reaches 10 feet, so now they are at the top of the wall.