Math Riddles With Answers

How many months have 28 days?

There are three apples. You take away two. How many apples do you have?

Which number becomes bigger when you turn it upside down?

Two fathers and two sons share three cookies so everyone gets one. How is that possible?

How can you add five to nine and get two?

Which digit can look the same in a mirror when written in a simple symmetrical style?

What number looks like it is sleeping when you turn it on its side?

Why did the math teacher cut their sandwich in half?

You have 6 blue socks and 6 red socks in a dark drawer. What is the fewest socks you must pull out to guarantee a matching pair?

What is the next number: 2, 3, 5, 9, 17, ?

I may look awkward as 48 over 64, but the more you break me down by common factors, the clearer I become. What am I?

A sunflower head, a pine cone spiral and the numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 all point to me. What am I?

Move me one place in an invoice and ten pounds becomes a hundred; I look tiny, but I can empty a budget. What am I?

You can count along me, divide me, make me negative, and still never reach my final member. What am I?

What comes next: 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, ?

What comes next: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ?

What comes next: 1, 8, 27, 64, ?

What comes next: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, ?

What comes next: 2, 6, 18, 54, ?

What comes next: 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ?

What comes next: 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, ?

What comes next: 160, 80, 40, 20, ?

What comes next: 3, 5, 9, 17, 33, ?

What comes next: 4, 10, 18, 28, 40, ?

What comes next: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ?

What comes next: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, ?

What comes next: 100, 91, 83, 76, 70, ?

What comes next: 1A, 2B, 4D, 8H, ?

What comes next: 12, 21, 13, 31, 14, ?

One brick weighs 1 kg plus half a brick. How much does one brick weigh?

A parent is 36 and a child is 9. In how many years will the parent be three times the child's age?

Two numbers add to 20. One number is 6 more than the other. What are the numbers?

You have 8 coins made of 10p and 20p coins. The total is £1.20. How many 20p coins are there?

I am a number. Double me and add 6 to get 30. What number am I?

Fill the missing number: 4, 8, 12, 16, ?

Fill the missing number: 3, 6, 12, 24, ?

Fill the missing number: 5, 10, 15, 20, ?

Fill the missing number: 1, 4, 7, 10, ?

Fill the missing number: 2, 4, 8, 16, ?

Fill the missing number: 10, 9, 8, 7, ?

Fill the missing number: 2, 5, 8, 11, ?

Fill the missing number: 100, 90, 80, 70, ?

Fill the missing number: 7, 14, 21, 28, ?

Fill the missing number: 1, 3, 5, 7, ?

There are 4 tables with 2 chairs each. How many chairs are there?

I am greater than 10, less than 20, even, and my digits add to 7. What number am I?