Digits in Disguise Volume II

We find the study of numbers fascinating. It is fun for us to learn how to express numbers in unusual ways. Throughout the year we talk about how important numbers are in our daily lives.  We enjoyed writing number clues and inventing riddles that combine different number expressions with the mathematical operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We hope you are challenged by our riddles. Good luck as you work to solve them.

Riddle 1 – Brandi

I am the number of the sides on a square, times the number of sides on a rectangle, plus the number of states in the U.S. What number am I?

Riddle 2 – Alexis

I am the number of days in a leap year, minus the legs on 40 horses, plus the number of legs on 5 chickens. What number am I?

Riddle 3 – Jennifer

I am the number of days in a year, times the number of eggs in a half dozen, plus the number of corners on a box, minus the number of legs on two fourth graders. What number am I?

Riddle 4 – Mrs. Hoyme

I am the number of tentacles on nine octopi, plus the number of wheels on eight tricycles, plus the number of cents in seventeen dimes. What number am I?

Riddle 5 – Kyler

I am the number of days in a year, times the number of months in a year, plus the number of seasons in a year. What number am I?

Riddle 6 – Gavin

I am the number of months in a year, plus the number of days in a year, minus the number of legs on three spiders. What number am I?

Riddle 7 – Megan

I am the number of seconds in a minute, plus the number of hours in a day, minus the number of cookies in a baker’s dozen. What number am I?

Riddle 8 – Mrs. Hoyme

I am the number of wheels on fourteen cars, plus the number of months in three years, plus the number of tentacles on an octopus. What number am I?

Riddle 9 – Brandi

I am the number of weeks in a year, minus the number of fingers a human has. What number am I?

Riddle 10 - Alexis

I am the number of years in a century, minus the number of sides on a square, plus the number of tails on ten geckos. What number am I?

Riddle 11 – Jennifer

I am the number of days in a century, minus the years in a century, plus the number of eggs in a dozen. What number am I?

Riddle 12 – Alayna

I am the number of sides on a square, times the number of days in a leap year. What number am I?

Riddle 13 – Kyler

I am the number of days in a week, times the number of eggs in a dozen, minus the number of letters in the alphabet? What number am I?

Riddle 14 – Gavin

I am the number of teaspoons in three tablespoons, times the number toes on both feet, minus the number of eggs in three dozen. What number am I?

Riddle 15 –Rebecca

I am the number of windows in Mrs. Hoyme’s classroom, times the number of kids in Mrs. Hoyme’s classroom (14), plus the number of years in a decade.  What number am I?

Riddle 16 Rebecca

I am the number of stars on the United States flag, minus the number of feet on four kids, times the number of fingers on ten kids. What number am I?

Riddle 17 – Megan

I am the number of cups in a pint, times the number of dimes in a dollar, divided by the number of days in a school week What number am I?

Riddle 18 – Mrs. Hoyme

I am the number of inches in five yardsticks, plus the number of legs on eight horses, minus the number of bottles of pop in four 24-packs. What number am I?

Riddle 19 – Alayna

I am the number of legs on an octopus, times the number of days in a leap year, plus the number of eyes on 5 fourth graders.

What number am I?

Riddle 20 McKinley

I am the number of weeks in a year, plus the number of ounces in 3 pounds, minus the number of years in a century. What number am I?

Riddle 21 – Spencer

I am the number of days in a year, times the number of cookies in two dozen, plus the number of wheels on four pickups. What number am I?

Riddle 22 – Mrs. Hoyme

I am the number of days in the month of March, times the number of inches in a foot, divided by the number of number of legs on a chair. What number am I?

Riddle 23 – McKinley

I am the number of people in a batting order, times the number of outs in an inning, plus the number of days in February in a leap year. What number am I?

Riddle 24 – Logan

I am the number of wheels on eight bicycles, times the number of eggs in 3 dozen, divided by the number of sides on a triangle. What number am I?

Answers to Digit Riddles Volume II

1.  58                                         16.  4,200

2.  216                                       17.  4

3.  2,194                                     18.  116

4.  266                                       19.  2,938

5.  4,384                                     20.  0

6.  353                                       21.  8,776

7.  71                                         22.  93

8.  100                                       23.  83

9.  42                                         24.  192

10.  106                                     

11.  3,662                                  

12.  1,464                                  

13.  58

14.  54

15.  122