Classic Clues
Three plows take 60, 30, and 20 minutes alone. Working together, how long do they take?
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10 minutes.
A cocoa machine pours one 8-ounce mug in 40 seconds. How long does it take to fill three mugs?
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2 minutes.
Icicles double each hour. If hour six has 64, what did hour four have?
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16.
Skiers go 6 mph and 4 mph for two hours in the same direction. How far apart?
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4 miles.
A 32-inch snowman halves each hour. When is it under 2 inches?
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After 5 hours.
Runs cost $3 or a $10 pass. When is the pass better?
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Four runs or more.
Twelve clues are worth 5 points. What is two-thirds solved worth?
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40 points.
A drawer has three mitten colors. How many pulls guarantee a pair?
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4 mittens.
Ice is 8 inches after four nights. How thick after six at the same rate?
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12 inches.
A snow globe collection doubles yearly. If now 256, how many three years ago?
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32 globes.
Themed Challenge Riddles
Forty percent of 120 carnival tickets are skating. How many?
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48 skaters.
A 20-foot tree casts a 20-foot shadow. A snowman shadow is 5 feet. How tall?
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5 feet.
A ski train goes 180 miles in 3 hours. How long for 540 miles?
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9 hours.
Wreaths need 6 pinecones. How many wreaths from 156?
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26 wreaths.
The third Tuesday can be earliest on what date?
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The 15th.
A snow fort gains 3 blocks per round for 7 rounds. How many blocks?
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21 blocks.
Five friends split 25 marshmallows evenly. How many each?
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5 marshmallows.
A sled race has 4 heats with 6 racers. How many racers total?
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24 racers.
A scarf is 60 inches and grows 5 inches daily. How long after 4 days?
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80 inches.
A cabin has 8 mugs and twice as many mittens. How many mittens?
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16 mittens.
Party and Classroom Extras
Two snowballs become four, then eight. What comes next?
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16 snowballs.
A rink opens at 2 and closes at 6. How many hours?
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4 hours.
A snowflake has 6 points. How many points on 9 snowflakes?
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54 points.
Three cocoa packets serve 12 people. How many people per packet?
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4 people.
A winter puzzle has 100 pieces and 25 are edge pieces. How many inside pieces?
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75 pieces.
A bus leaves at 8:15 and arrives at 9:00. How long is the trip?
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45 minutes.
A snow trail is 2 miles out and 2 miles back. How far total?
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Four miles total.
A class reads 10 pages daily for 5 days. How many pages?
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50 pages.
What has a flake but isn't cereal and is never the same twice?
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A snowflake.
What answer melts confusion but not snow?
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A solved clue.
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