Tricky Riddles

Tricky riddles with answers are both tricky and crafty. They are not straight forward, requires logic reasoning and you could be fooled if you are not sharp enough.

Give and Take

A boy and a girl each have a bag of containing the same number of jelly beans. How many jelly beans must the boy give the girl so that the girl will have ten more jelly beans than the boy?

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Gold Pieces

Which is worth more: a pound of $10 gold pieces or half a pound of $20 gold pieces?

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Red House, Blue House, Yellow House, Green House

If a red house is made out of red bricks, a blue house is made out of blue bricks and a yellow house is made of yellow bricks what color bricks does a greenhouse have?

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Unlisted Phone Numbers

In a certain city, 5% of all the persons in town have unlisted phone numbers. If you select 100 names at random from that city’s phone directory, how many people selected will have unlisted phone numbers?

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25 Year Old Man

A man was born in 1964 and died in 1984 at the age of 25. How is this possible?

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