Number Riddles 🤔

Free interactive math game: Number Riddles 🤔 — Who am I?. Part of the Special Games 🚀 category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. In a class: 7 kids like chocolate, 4 like vanilla, 12 like strawberry. How many MORE kids like strawberry than vanilla?
  2. I am greater than 26, less than 35, even, and divisible by 4. What number am I?
  3. In a class: 6 kids like chocolate, 3 like vanilla, 11 like strawberry. How many MORE kids like strawberry than vanilla?
  4. The sum of my digits is 8. I am even. I am between 16 and 36. What number am I?

About this exercise

Riddles that describe a number through its properties.

How to solve it

Translate each clue into a condition, list the candidates the first clue allows, then test them against the rest.

Worked example

An odd number between 10 and 20 divisible by 3 must be 15.

Common mistake

Ignoring a clue that seems redundant. It is usually the one that narrows the answer to a single value.