Clock Puzzles
1. What is the time now if 2 hours later it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later?
Answer : 9 P.M
2. Which clock is the odd one out?
Ans:( C )
3. What is two days after the day after the day before yesterday?
Ans: Tomorrow.
The day before yesterday was two days ago; the day after the day before yesterday was yesterday; two days after that (yesterday) is tomorrow.
4. What will be the result if the hands of this clock are moved as follows:
A. forward 3 hours, 15 minutes
B. back 4 hours, 25 minutes
C. back 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ans: CHILDREN
Present time indicated - CH, A. Forward to 5.15 - IL, B. Back to 12.50 - DR, C. Back to 11.20 - EN
5. How many minutes is it until six o’clock if fifty minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past three o’clock?
Ans: Twenty-six minutes.
6. THE RAILWAY STATION CLOCK.
A clock hangs on the wall of a railway station, 71 ft. 9 in. long and 10 ft. 4 in. high. Those are the dimensions of the wall, not of the clock! While waiting for a train we noticed that the hands of the clock were pointing in opposite directions, and were parallel to one of the diagonals of the wall. What was the exact time?
Ans: The time must have been 437/11 min. past two o’clock.
7. Look at the series of clocks below.
The time on clock “F” will most likely be:
a. 9:00 b. 9:05 c. 8:55 d.. 11:00
Ans:The time on clock F should be 8:55 (answer c).
The time moves ahead by 50 minutes in each picture.
8. WHAT IS THE TIME?
At what time are the two hands of a clock so situated that, reckoning as minute points past XII, one is exactly the square of the distance of the other?
Ans: The time is 63/4 minutes past IX, when the hour hand is 45x9/16
(the square of 6x3/4) minutes past XII. If we allow fractions less than a minute point,
there is also the solution, five seconds (one-twelfth of a minute) past XII oclock.
9. Where of the smaller watches would continue the sequence shown on the top line?
Ans: (b).
On each watch the minutes value equals the hour value multiplied by three.
10. WHAT IS THE TIME?
At what time are the two hands of a clock so situated that, reckoning as minute points past XII, one is exactly the square of the distance of the other?
Ans: The time is 63/4 minutes past IX, when the hour hand is 45x9/16
(the square of 6x3/4) minutes past XII. If we allow fractions less than a minute point,
there is also the solution, five seconds (one-twelfth of a minute) past XII oclock.