Puzzles Questions

Sum of numbers in all individual boxes must be equal.

Here sum must be equal to 30.

=> x + 14 + 9 + 2 = 30 => x = 5. 

You will get the answer in the riddle itself, if you read the riddle carefully.

The riddle says "A cowboy arrives in town on Friday." So Friday is the name of the horse on which he comes. Hence, the only possibility is he arrives on the horse friday on Tuesday, stays for 3 days and leaves on the same horse on Friday. 

What has Hands But cannot Clap is a Clock or a Watch.

A Clock technically has 3 hands.

1 Hour Hand Which tells Hours

1 Minute Hand Which tells Minutes

1 Second Hand Which tells Seconds.

But cannot clap with these hands.

A measuring device.

Measuring devices have feet on them to measure distance.

There are many possibilities for this.

We can hold a breathe, meeting, conversation, party, grudge, etc... but cannot touch them.

A Clock has 3 hands i.e, an Hour hand, a Minute hand and a Seconds hand.

Sum of all numerals must be ten because each numeral stands for the count of other numerals and because this number shall have ten numerals. Beginning to choose reasonable numerals for the first figure you can come across the correct number: 6210001000.

In the given number puzzle,

Sum of Row 1 = 14

Sum of Row 2 = 23

Sum of Row 3 = 13 + ?

Sum of Column 1 = 16 

Sum of Column 2 = 23 

Sum of Column 3 = 11 + ?

Diagonal 1 sum = 17

Diagonal 2 sum = 14 + ?

From the above analysis,

Sum of Row 2 = Sum of Column 2 = 23

Sum of Row 1 = Sum of Column 3 = 14 = 11 + ?    .............(1)

Sum of Row 3 = Sum of Column 1 = 16 = 13 + ?    .............(2)

Diagonal 1 sum = Diagonal 2 sum = 17 = 14 + ?    .............(3)

Hence,

From (1), (2) & (3)

? = 3