# Patterns and puzzles

> Grade 2: what comes next in a pattern, odd one out, simple riddles, sorting by a rule.

Source: https://olyclass.com/library/other-g2-pattern-puzzles-en/

- Subject: General knowledge
- Level: Grade 2
- Quiz: 16
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- Games it plays well in: [Fishing Pond](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/fishing-pond/), [Claw Machine](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/claw-machine/), [Lucky Drop](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/lucky-drop/), [Mini Golf](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/mini-golf/)

## Questions

1. What comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, ... (10 / 11 / 12 / 9)
   Answer: 10
2. What comes next? 20, 18, 16, 14, ... (10 / 12 / 13 / 15)
   Answer: 12
3. What comes next? 5, 10, 15, 20, ... (21 / 22 / 25 / 30)
   Answer: 25
4. What comes next? 100, 90, 80, 70, ... (50 / 60 / 65 / 75)
   Answer: 60
5. In the pattern 10, 9, 8, 7, the next number is 6.
   Answer: True
6. Apple, banana and pear are fruits. Which one of these is not a fruit? (a carrot / a grape / a plum / an orange)
   Answer: a carrot
7. Which of these is NOT an even number? (10 / 12 / 8 / 9)
   Answer: 9
8. Which does not belong with a pencil, a pen and a crayon? (a banana / a marker / a paintbrush / a piece of chalk)
   Answer: a banana
9. I am big and grey, with a long trunk and big ears. What am I? (a dolphin / a horse / a rabbit / an elephant)
   Answer: an elephant
10. I am white and cold and fall from the sky in winter. Children build me into a man. What am I?
   Answer: snow
11. What has four legs and a flat top, and you eat your dinner on it?
   Answer: a table
12. The numbers 3, 6, 9, 12 are all in the same pattern of counting in threes.
   Answer: True
13. Sort by a rule: which group do 3, 5, 9, 11 belong to? (even numbers / numbers over 20 / odd numbers / tens numbers)
   Answer: odd numbers
14. Which rule sorts these? shirt, socks, shoes, hat (things that fly / things we eat / things we wear / things with wheels)
   Answer: things we wear
15. A whale belongs in the group with a sparrow, an eagle and a parrot because they all fly.
   Answer: False
16. What comes next? 50, 45, 40, 35, ...
   Answer: 30