Try these puzzles on your friends and family. Answers below.
1. Count your eggs
There are 6 eggs in a carton.  6 people are given 1 egg each, but there is one egg still left in the carton.
How can this be?
Clue: this is easier to work out if you try it with 6 real eggs in a carton.

2. What is in this photo?

3. What is amazing about these sentences?

‘Now I see bees I won.’

‘May a moody baby doom a yam?’

‘Do geese see God?’

‘Was it a car or a cat I saw?’

4. Count Your Letters
What do these letters mean?
O T T F F S S
Clue: The next letter is E

5. The Lines
My teacher drew a pencil line and said “Make this line shorter. You may not rub out the line or cover it up. You can use a pencil.” How?

Answers
1. One person was given an egg still in the carton.
2. It’s the floor of the Admont library in Austria. The diamond-shaped tiles are coloured and arranged to make it appear 3-D.

3. They are all palindromes (read them backwards).

4. The letters are the words for numbers; One, Two, Three, Four…

5. Make it appear shorter. Draw a longer line next to it – then the first line is shorter.