So tricky you’ll be fooled! A collection of trick riddles that both adults and kids can enjoy.
Trick riddles can be a little frustrating when you can’t answer them, yet they still make you chuckle.
Even when you’re thinking seriously, sometimes you see the answer and feel let down, like, “That’s all it was?” Questions like “What’s something that waits for you from the morning?”, “What’s the smallest number in a deck of cards?”, or “Why were there no injuries in the elevator accident?” and so on.
In this article, we’ll introduce fun trick riddles you’ll want to share with someone right away.
Why not think them over with family and friends and spread some smiles?
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Trick Questions with Calculations and Numbers (1–10)
Three glasses of milk, two glasses of juice, three bowls of ramen—how many in total?
See the answer
full stomach
At first glance, you might be tempted to calculate “3 + 2 + 3 = 8,” but this isn’t an arithmetic problem—it’s a riddle. Instead of the total number of cups, you should think about the state someone would be in after eating and drinking that much. Therefore, the answer is “getting full,” or in Japanese, “hara ippai” (meaning a full stomach).
Trick Problems with Calculations and Numbers (11–20)
How many pages are there if you read the picture book to the last page?
See the answer
The end.
Because the question asks “How many pages?”, you might feel like answering with the number of pages or sheets of paper, but the “how many” here is actually a trick. When you finish reading a picture book, the last page often says “The End,” or the reader says it out loud. Therefore, the answer to this question is “The End.”
If you are holding two bouquets in your right hand and three bouquets in your left hand, how many bouquets are there in total when you put them all together?
See the answer
1 bundle
You might feel like answering “two bundles plus three bundles makes five bundles,” but the answer is one bundle. If you tie all five bundles together, they become a single bundle—that was the trick of the problem.
A set of an apple and a mandarin orange costs 300 yen. If the apple is 200 yen more expensive than the mandarin orange, what is the price of the mandarin orange?
See the answer
50 yen
At first glance, you might be tempted to answer “100 yen,” but that’s incorrect. If the orange costs 100 yen, then when you consider the set price, the apple would be 200 yen, making the difference only 100 yen. However, if the orange costs 50 yen, the apple would be 250 yen, and the difference would be 200 yen.
How many delicious rice crackers are there?
See the answer
tasty
When asked “How many mai?” you might want to answer in terms of sheets—since rice crackers can be counted as 1 mai, 2 mai, etc.—but the number of sheets isn’t the answer. The word “oishii” in “oishii senbei” can also be said as “umai,” right? Therefore, the answer to this riddle is “umai.”
I received mikan (mandarins), hassaku, and grapefruit as gifts; which one did I get the most of?
See the answer
grapefruit
Since the problem statement doesn’t specify how many of each fruit there are, you might be puzzled for a moment. However, what this quiz is asking about is not the quantities, but the number of letters in each fruit’s name. Therefore, grapefruit—which has more letters than the other fruits—is the answer.
If you take 5 candies out of a drawer that has 20 candies, how many will you have?
See the answer
5 pieces
This is a very simple trick question. There were 20 candies in the drawer. Since it asks how many you are holding after taking out 5, the correct answer is 5. It’s simple, but if you just glance at the question and think quickly, you might get tripped up.