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Riddle: A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?

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Answer: 110 miles. (73037)

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Riddle: A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?

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Answer: 11 times. It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds

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Riddle: A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5 times the sum of the two other digits. 8 times the second digit minus 9 is equal to the sum of the first and third. What is the number?

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Answer: This one is fairly easy - 324 is the answer

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Riddle: There are 10 dogs in a yard. 3 go out, 4 run behind a tree, and 2 jump in the hole. How many are left?

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Answer: 10, because none of them left the yard.

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Riddle: There are four girls, and four apples in a basket. Every girl takes an apple, Yet one apple remains in the basket. How is this possible?

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Answer: One girl took the basket. She took the last apple while it was in the basket.

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Riddle: Trains travel from one town to another town all day, always on the same track, always going nonstop and at the same speed. The noon train took 80 minutes to complete the trip, but the 4 PM train took 1 hour and 20 minutes. Why?

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Answer: 80 minutes is the same as 1 hour and 20 minutes

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