Transum Mathematics Puzzles

Find where the drone catches up with the ship given their relative speeds.

Find a nice method to work out which number on the dice is uppermost after rolling across a chess board.

Work out the total number of children in Rachel's family using the clues about brothers and sisters.

How many times in a 24 hour period do all four digits on my bedside clock change at the same time?

How do you increase the area of a window without changing its height or width?

A puzzle about the relative wealth of Maureen compared to Doreen.

Find the prices of the items bought if they are different and all factors of the total bill.

Which of the many ways of splitting ten gives the largest product?

What seems like a familiar puzzle has an unusual twist.

What is the largest amount that cannot be made with 5p and 7p coins?

How did the bus driver know how much to charge Mrs P and Mrs Q?

Find angle A given that it is the half of the mean of the angles at B and C in triangle ABC.

The cost of a meal increases by 4% to a whole number of pounds.

A think of a number puzzle with an unpredictable element.

Find the ages of Keith and Kath from the clues given.

How many of the smaller cubes that make up the 3x3 cube have two faces painted blue?

What temperature is reported using the same number in Celsius and Fahrenheit?

A simple question that seventy two percent of a group of people got wrong.

How far apart will the trains be half an hour before they meet?

Can the pirates win their freedom by tying the six pieces of rope into one large loop?