Age Puzzle Game
Age Puzzle
If you are 12 years or over:
Write down your age.
Reverse the figures.
So, if your age is 13, reversing the figures gives 31.
English puzzle
My friend asked me this question: “my grandmother’s age is a perfect square. Also, it is equal to the difference the square of my father’s age and the square of my mother’s age.
Extra Baggage
When I met Arati, Bharati and Chitra, their respective ages (in years) were in the ratio 5 : 2 : 1 . Their ages in years now are in the ratio of 10 : 7 : 6 .
A Question of Age
‘How old is Tracy, I wonder?’ one asked the other. ‘Tracy!’ the other replied ‘Let me see – eighteen years ago he was three times as old as his son.’
‘But now, it appears, he is only twice as old as his son’ said the former.
I tried to guess Tracy’s age, and his son’s age. What do you think my solution was?
Age Puzzle
A man broke up the fight and conducted a lie-detector test on both of them to prove to them who’s right and who’s wrong. As it turned out, they’d both lied throughout the entire fight. What are their actual ages? Provide a detailed explanation along with your answer.
When did Diophantus Die?
Here is an epitaph of the celebrated Greek mathematician of 250 A.D., Diophantus. Can you calculate his age from this?
DIOPHANTUS PASSED ONE SIXTH OF HIS LIFE IN CHILDHOOD, ONE TWELFTH IN YOUTH, AND ONE SEVENTH MORE AS A BACHELOR; FIVE YEARS AFTER HIS MARRIAGE A SON WAS BORN WHO DIED FOUR YEARS