536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

8 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems BUYING TURKEYS A man bought a number of turkeys at a cost of $60.00, and after reserving ...

"That piece of paper," said the detective, throwing it on the table, "has worried me for two or three days. You see it gives the ...

10 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems A QUEER SETILING UP Professor Rackbrane told his family at the breakfast table that he ...

Age Puzzles 11 covered that the bill was counterfeit. What was lost in the whole transaction, and by whom? THEIR AGES If you a ...

12 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems ANCIENT PROBLEM Here is an example of the sort of "Breakfast Problem" propounded by Met ...

Age Puzzles 13 four times as old; last year I was three times as old; and this year I am two and one-half times as old." What ar ...

14 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems was born; and I was told yesterday that the average age of the four of us is thirty-nine ...

Colonel Crackham then asked them to show how a dial may be broken into four parts so that the numerals on each part shall in eve ...

16 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems AT RIGHT ANGLES Rackbrane asked his young friends at the breakfast table one morning th ...

Speed & Distance Puzzles 17 is last, went five at a time. Undoubtedly Ackworth wins. But the point is, how many steps are th ...

18 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems of three and four is three and one-half, and it would take him three and one- half minute ...

Speed & Distance Puzzles 19 MORE BICYCLING Referring to the last puzzle, let us now consider the case where a third rider ...

20 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems passenger worked out from these facts the rate per hour at which each train ran. Can the ...

Speed & Distance Puzzles 21 outwards at twelve miles an hour and returns at eight miles an hour, thus taking forty-one and t ...

22 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems hour when Baxter went after him along the same road. Baxter's dog started at the same tim ...

Speed & Distance Puzzles 23 puzzles that we have considered for some time. It made a considerable demand on Professor Walkin ...

24 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems "All the trains take five hours, ma'am, either way," replied the official. "And how many ...

Speed & Distance Puzzles 25 until all met at the center, from which they started, for the fourth time. The distance round ea ...

26 Arithmetic & Algebraic Problems THE THREE CARS Three cars travelling along a road in the same direction are, at a certa ...

Speed & Distance Puzzles 27 nineteen steps for his last bound!" How many steps are there in the Curley Street subway stairwa ...