During the final game of a soccer championship the teams scored a lot of goals. Six goals were scored during the first period of the game and the guest team was leading the score at the halftime break. During the second period, the home team scored 3 goals and as a result, they won the game. How many goals did the home team score altogether ?

In the squares of the 4 x 4 board numbers are written such that the numbers in adjacent squares differ by 1. Numbers 3 and 9 appear in the table. Number 3 is in the top left corner as shown. How many different numbers appear in the table ?

Aron, Bern and Carl always lie. Each of them owns one stone, either a red stone or a green dtone.

Aron says: “ My stone is the same color as Bern’s stone”.

Bern says: “ My stone is the same color as Carl’s stone” .

Carl says: “ Exactly two of us own red stones” .

Which of the following statements is true ?

Sixty six cats signed up for the contest MISS CAT 2013. After the first round 21 cats were eliminated because they failed to catch a mouse. Of the remaining cats, 27 had stripes and 32 had one black ear. All striped cats with one black ear got to the final. What is the minimum number of finalist ?

There are four buttons in a row as shown below. Two of them show happy faces, and two of them show sad faces. If we press on a face, its expression turns to the opposite ( e.g.a happy face turns into a sad face after the touch ). In addition to this, the adjacent buttons also change their expressions. What is the least number of times you need to press a button in order to get all happy faces ?

40 boys and 28 girls stand in a circle, hand in hand, all facing inwards. Exactly 18 boys give their right hand to a girl. How many boys give their left hand to a girl ?

A stack of loads must be transported. If Ann does the job alone, it will take one hour. If Ben does the job alone, it will take two hours. How long will it take if Ann and Ben do the job together ?

How many 3 –digit numbers possess the following property: after subtracting 297 from such a number, we get a 3-digit number consisting of the same digits in the reverse order ?

When Pinocchio lies, his nose gets 8 cm longer. When he says the truth, the nose gets 3 cm shorter. When his nose was 7 cm long, he said five sentences and after that his nose got 25 cm long. How many of Pinocchio’s sentences were true ?

There were 2013 inhabitants on an island. Some of them were knights and the others were liars. The knights always tell the truth and the liars always lie. Every day, one of the inhabitants said: “ After my departure the number of knights on the island will equal the number of liars” and then left the island. After 2013 days, there is nobody on the island. How many liars were there initially ?

Starting with a list of three number, the “ changesum” procedure creates a new list by replacing each number by the sum of the other two. For example, from { 3; 4; 6} the procedure “ changesum” gives { 10, 9, 7 } and a new “changesum” leads to { 16, 17, 19 }. If we begin with the list { 20, 1, 3 }, what is the maximum difference between two numbers of the list after 2013 consecutive “changesums” ?

Alice forms four identical numbered cubes using the net shown.

She then finds the total of all the numbers on the surface of the block.

What is the largest total that Alice can get ?

There are two clocks in Cathy’s room. One of them is 25 minutes behind. Now it is showing 7:40. The second clock is 15 minutes ahead. What is the second clock showing now ?

In four of the five pictures, the white area is equal to the grey area. In which picture are the white area and the grey area different ?

Father hangs the laundry outside on a clothesline. He wants to use as few pegs as possible. For three towels he needs four pegs, as shown. How many pegs does he need for eleven towels ?

A math class lasts 45 minutes. Peter can solve any problem from the textbook in exactly 6 minutes. However, he needs one minutes rest after solving each problem. How many problems can Peter solve completely during one math class ?

Fifteen children are playing hide and seek. One of them is the “seeker”. After a while seven children were still hiding. How many children have already been found ?

Mike and Jake were playing darts. Each one threw three darts ( see the picture ). Who won, and by how many points did he win ?

A regular rectangular pattern on a wall was created with two kinds of tiles: grey and striped. Some tiles have fallen off the wall ( see the picture ). How many grey tiles have fallen off ?

The year 2012 is a leap year, that means there are 29 days in February. On the 15^th of March 2012, the ducklings of my grandfather are 20 days old. When did they hatch from their eggs ?

You have L-shaped tiles, each consisting of four squares as shown:  How many of the following shapes can you make by glueing together two of the given tiles ?

Once Little Piggy planted 8 acorns. In a few years, oak trees grew from all acorns except two of them. All oak trees except two of them had their acorns. Acorns from all profilic trees except one, are very tasty. How many oaks with tasty acorns are there ?

In a Sudoku the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 can occur only once in each column and once in each row. In the mathematical sudoku on the picture, Patrick first writes in the results of the calculations. Then he completes the sudoku. Which number will Patrick put in the grey cell ?

Grandmother made 20 gingerbread biscuits for her grandchildren. She decorated 15 biscuits with raisins and then 15 biscuits with nuts. At least how many biscuits were decorated both with raisins and nuts ?

Among Nikolay’s classmates there are twice as many girls as there are boys. Which of the following numbers may be equal to the number of all children in this class ?