What is a sport?

Two men were playing tennis. They played five sets and each man won three sets.

How can this be possible?

Hark, did you hear something?

How many members of each animal did Moses take on the ark?


PS, I added a poll to the sidebar. I've been wondering what type of questions/puzzles you like best. So let me know using the poll.

Baseball trivia

In baseball, how many outs are there in an inning?

Happy Fourth of July!

Do they have a fourth of July in England?


And, yes, I know it's a little early for the fourth of July...

Crystal Challenge

If you coated a tennis ball with glue, how many other tennis balls can you attach directly to this sticky surface?

Part Two, Rebus

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Where Did the Rebus Go?

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Common Days

What do the following have in common: Friday in June and Sunday in October?

A Closet Full of Shoes

A closet contains 10 pairs of shoes (20 shoes altogether). If 6 shoes are chosen at random, what is the probability that there will be no matching pair in the sample?

Some more sports

It's two to one, bottom of the ninth with two outs. The hometown hero stepping to the plate. The crowd tenses as the pitch is delivered.

But that's not the riddle.

No man on either side has reached second base. How can this be?

For all you fans out there

Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again.

What is it?

Who invented the Equal Sign?

A bit of math trivia for you today. The equals sign = was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde. In his book, The Whetstone of Witte, he wrote, "To avoid the tedious repetition of these words: is equal to; I will set a pair of parallel lines thus, =, because no two things can be more equal.


Here's your question: Perfect numbers are special because they are equal to the sum of their factors. The number 6, for instance, has factors 1, 2, and 3 which when summed equals 6. The next perfect number is 28. Do you know what the third perfect number is?

Hint: It's less than 500.

Its the Good Ship

What ship has no captain but two mates?

Pipe Dreams

I'm sure you all remember your physics and math courses, right?

Two identical tanks full of water are being drained at the same time. One of the tanks has one -two centimeter circular drain outlet and the other has two -one centimeter circular drain outlets. Will one of the tanks empty faster than the other?

Two Numbers

My first is a number, my second another,
And each, I assure you, will rhyme with the other.
My first you will find is one-fifth of my second,
And truly my whole a long period reckoned.
How many am I?

Four Wet Men

Four men were in a boat on the lake. The boat turns over, and all four men sink to the bottom of the lake, yet not a single man got wet! Why?

Crack the Glass

If boiling water is poured into a thick drinking glass as well as a very thin wine glass, of the two, which is more likely to crack? Why?

Word Trivia

While I expect that any one of you could answer this question, I still found it interesting enough to post. What is very unusual about the following words?
BOUGH
COUGH
DOUGH
ROUGH
THROUGH

We Haven't Seen Any Math Questions in a While

To warm-up: Which 2-digit number is 1 more than a square and 1 less than a cube?

And a little bit harder: Can you find a three digit number which is 2 less than a cube and 2 more than a square?






Hint: the three digit number I can find is made of consecutive digits, like 567.

Rebus Again

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