Logic Riddles

Logic riddles with answers involve looking at situations and making judgements about them by ruling out impossibilities. If you like solving maths puzzles, you will most probably like logic riddles as well.

Snail Race

Four snails — Toby, Pete, Lori, and Elvira, are competing in the annual snail race, with the following results: Lori finished four hours ahead of Elvira. Pete crawled across the finish line eight hours before Toby. Toby needed six hours longer to finish the course than Lori did.

In what order did the snails cross the finish line?

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Nurse or Not

Three working women have different careers. If only one of statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, can you tell whether or not Mary is a nurse?

  1. This statement is only true if statement 5 is false.
  2. This statement is true if statements 4 or 5, or both 4 and 5 are true.
  3. This statement is false only if both statements 6 and 1 are true.
  4. Mary is a nurse.
  5. Karen is an artist.
  6. Sarah is a photographer.
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