Count the Insects

An octopus has 8 legs. A hippogriff has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A sphinx has 6 legs and one pair of wings. Now we have all 3 kinds and a total of 18 insects in a cage. We have a total of 118 legs and 20 pairs of wings. How many insects do we have of each kind?




Similar Riddles

The average age of 10 members of a committee is the same as it was 4 years ago, because an old member has been replaced by a young member. Find how much younger is the new member ?

Asked by Neha on 19 Jul 2021


Alpha is Beta's sister.

Gamma is a Beta mother.

Delta is Gamma's father.

Tango is Delta's mother.

Then,

How is Alpha related to Delta?

Asked by Neha on 17 Jun 2024

A man calls his dog from the opposite side of a river. The dog crosses the river without a bridge or a boat and manages to not get wet. How is this possible?

Asked by Neha on 06 Sep 2025


If you had a pizza with crust thickness 'a' and radius 'z', what's the volume of the pizza?

Asked by Neha on 30 May 2024

What word begins and ends with an E, but has only one letter?

Asked by Neha on 21 Oct 2021

Railroad Crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that, without any R's ?

Asked by Neha on 14 May 2021


Find the number of squares in the below picture

Count The Squares

Asked by Neha on 13 Apr 2021

He digs out tiny caves and stores gold and silver in them. He also built bridges of silver and made crowns of gold. They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later everybody needs his help, yet many people are afraid to let him help them. Who is he?

Asked by Neha on 23 Dec 2025

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

Asked by Neha on 07 Jul 2025


I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Asked by Neha on 30 Dec 2023

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Rubik’s Cube

The inventor of the Rubik’s Cube didn’t realize he’d built a puzzle until he scrambled it the first time and tried to restore it.