The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Twice ten are six of us, Six are but three of us, Nine are but four of us; What can we possibly be? Would you know more of us? Twelve are but six of us, Five are but four, do you see? What are we?
A wooden log balances equally on the scales when weighed with three-quarters of a pound and three-quarters of a wooden log. Can you calculate the weight of the entire wooden log?
Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
When I get multiplied by any number, the sum of the figures in the product is always me. What am I?
If I remove one from eleven it becomes Ten and if I remove one from nine also becomes Ten. How?
When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
Can you write down eight eights so that they add up to one thousand?
I have a head like a cat and feet like a cat, but I am not a cat. What am I?
There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?
I live in a bowl. I can swim. I have a tail. I also have fins and big eyes. What am I?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
