CHALLENGE - ENIGMA WEEKLY

A mother has 6 girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there?

How many bricks does it take to complete a brick building?

A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot.

How can this be?

Many years ago, a wealthy old man was near death. He wished to leave his fortune to one of his three children. The old man wanted to know that his fortune would be in wise hands. He stipulated that his estate would be left to the child who would sing him half as many songs as days that he had left to live. The eldest son said he couldn't comply because he didn't know how many days his father had left to live, and besides he was too busy. The youngest son said the same thing. The man ended up leaving his money to his third child, a daughter. What did his daughter do?

In a certain city, 5% of all the persons in town have unlisted phone numbers. If you select 100 names at random from that city's phone directory, how many people selected will have unlisted phone numbers?

If a wheel has 64 spokes, how many spaces are there between the spokes?

What can go up and come down without moving?

Gaze at this sentence for just about sixty seconds and then explain what makes it quite different from the average sentence. Quick!

What is it?

Why is an avaricious man like one with a short memory?

They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?