[For Seniors] Liven Things Up with Trick Riddles You Answer!

a bundle

If we add the four bouquets my friends and I made and the two bouquets Hanako made by herself, that makes six bouquets. However, the problem asks for the total when all the bouquets are combined, so six is incorrect. The key part is “combine all the bouquets.” When you combine them all, you get one bouquet!

0 years old

If you’re not driving, you can ride in a car from age zero. You might be tempted to think about the age at which you can obtain a driver’s license, but the question is asking about the age at which you can ride. Through this riddle, it’s also nice to recall family drives.

speed

You tend to read the problem statement carefully and think it through, trying to derive the answer from the vegetables loaded on the truck bed, don’t you? However, the answer is “speed.” The way the text makes it feel like a multiple-choice question seems to be a trick. If you don’t overthink it and answer with a light heart, you might be more likely to get it right.

Because I jumped out of the first-floor window.

It’s the puzzle where you imagine someone jumping from the 40th floor, right? It makes you want to focus on the people who weren’t injured. But the key point is that the problem statement never says they “jumped from the 40th floor.” If they jumped out of a first-floor window, which is low in height, they could evacuate without getting hurt.

not

You might be tempted to answer “the rose’s flower,” right? But if you imagine a rose as a whole, the thorns are on the rose’s stem. As people get older, many seem to grow more fond of flowers. Since flowers are familiar even to seniors, this makes for a quiz question that’s easy for them to participate in.

Because I was a firefighter

When a name includes the suffix “-kun,” it gives off a childlike image, doesn’t it? You might mistakenly think a child ran into the fire, but it seems it was actually an adult. It’s an interesting issue caused by the impression that kanji can convey. It appears that Jiro-kun was carrying out his duties as a firefighter.

12

All twelve months have 28 days in a year. Normally, February ends on the 28th, but in a leap year, the last day of February is the 29th. Since the question says “February is short,” it seems designed to trip people up! By the way, for those born in a leap year, it’s said their age increases by one at 24:00 on February 28.