No one is here.

Let’s think back to some fairy tales. Among Cinderella, Snow White, and The Little Mermaid, which story features a poisoned apple? Of course, it’s Snow White. You might be tempted to answer, “Snow White, who ate the apple,” but that would be incorrect. Snow White did eat the apple, but she did not die. Therefore, the correct answer is that there is no one. It looks like a multiple-choice question, but in fact, none of the choices contain the answer.

Because I jumped down from the first floor.

At first glance it sounds dangerous, but the trick lies in the question of which step they jumped from. Hearing “100 steps” makes you imagine a big drop, but it doesn’t say they jumped from the 100th step. The surprising answer is that they actually jumped from the bottom step, so they weren’t injured.

three

If you pull out 3 carrots from the 10 growing in the field, you’d think 7 are left, right? But the answer isn’t 7. The problem says, “If you pull out 3, how many are left (ato)?” Here, “ato” means the “marks/traces” left after pulling them out. So the traces left after pulling 3 out of 10 carrots are 3. If you read the problem carefully, it seems easy to solve, but it’s surprisingly tricky and easy to get caught by it.

cucumber

It’s a trick question that cleverly combines the number “nine” and the unit of length “ri,” playing on the image of roughly 35 kilometers. It’s not about simple distance; by considering the meanings of the words and units, you arrive at the answer. It’s a quiz that lets you enjoy thinking from an unusual perspective.

na

This is a trick question that focuses on the characters in the word. The hint lies in paying attention to the middle character of “onaka” (stomach). Instead of being misled by what was eaten, if you look at how the word is constructed, you’ll arrive at a surprising answer—it’s a fun puzzle.

one time

It’s a riddle that looks like an arithmetic problem. How many times can you subtract 1 from 99? At first, it seems like you’d keep subtracting 1 from each new result—99 minus 1 gives 98, then 98 minus 1, and so on. However, the answer is: once. While 99 minus 1 does equal 98, read the question carefully. It asks how many times you can subtract 1 from 99. After the first subtraction, the number is no longer 99, so it no longer fits the condition. Therefore, you can subtract 1 from 99 only once.

3

You might feel like answering “55” from the way the problem is written, but let’s read it carefully. It says “divide 100 by half.” That means the correct expression is to divide 100 by 1/2, since half of 100 is 50—wait, no: dividing by half means 100 ÷ (1/2). The answer to this expression is 200, and if you then add 1 to that result, you get 201. It’s a problem you can get wrong if you don’t read the wording carefully.