My sister, Amy, got me a logic puzzles book or Christmas. I found a couple clever little questions related to time and clocks, and I thought I could use them here… and one more I thought was good.

1. On a conventional [analog] clock, how many times does the minute hand pass the hour hand between noon and midnight?
2. If it takes a clock 2 seconds to chime twice, how long would it take to chime four times?
3. Mary dropped an earring in her coffee, but the earring didn’t get wet. Why?

It’s been a little while.

A Bus has three stops on its route. A ticket costs 12 cents if you’re going to the first stop, 21 cents if you’re going to the second stop, and 25 cents if you are headed to the third stop. A man gets on the bus at the starting station, and hands the driver 25 cents. Without communicating with the passenger at all, the Bus Driver hands the passenger a ticket to the 3rd stop. How did he know?