Puzzles and riddles

I recently published the short story 'The Puppet Master' about a crazy criminal who sets his victims riddles. I featured one such riddle in an earlier blog post, but if you're not all puzzled out just yet, then here are a few more puzzles for you...

1) How many holes are in this t-shirt?

2) How can you use the word 'and' five times in a row in the same sentence?


3) What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?


4) When can you find August before July?

A mouse.

Editor's note: "Charles, you've used the wrong type of mouse."
Charles: "It's okay. The answer will still be the same..."

And finally, a mathematical puzzle...

5) Mice can reproduce very fast indeed. A mouse can give birth to five mice each month, and a baby mouse reaches adulthood in only two months. If you start with one mouse, how many mice will you have after six months?

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Answers:

A t-shirt with 8 holes.

1) How many holes are in the t-shirt?

Answer: 8. The four regular holes (head, waist, left arm, and right arm), and there appears to be two holes on the front of the t-shirt. However, you can see right through the t-shirt, so there must be two holes in the front and two holes in the back, making four additional holes in addition to the four regular holes, making eight holes in total.


2) How can you use the word 'and' five times in a row in the same sentence?

Answer: The manager of a fish and chips shop asked a signwriter to make a new 'Fish And Chips' sign for the front of his takeaway. However, the signwriter put the words too close together, so the manager told the signwriter, “I want more space between Fish and And and And and Chips.”


3) What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

Answer: Your name.


4) When can you find August before July?

This mouse won't reproduce.

Answer: In a dictionary.


5) Mice can reproduce very fast indeed. A mouse can give birth to five mice each month, and a baby mouse reaches adulthood in only two months. If you start with one mouse, how many mice will you have have six months?

Answer: One! If you start with only one mouse, it's not going to reproduce...

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If you want more riddles, then here's a plug for my short story 'The Puppet Master' which features a crazy villain who sets his victims riddles. It's available for kindle from Amazon: