The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old could they be? (3 possible solutions).

Why this works

This riddle plays with the concept of reversing digits in numbers. The ages of the father and son must add up to 66, and importantly, the father's age has to be the son’s age with its digits flipped. To find the solutions, we consider two-digit numbers where the first digit is the tens place (father) and the second digit is the units place (son). The pairs that work are 51 and 15, 42 and 24, and 60 and 06. When you add both ages in each pair, they total to 66, and the digits of the father's age are indeed the reverse of the son's age, making the riddle a clever exercise in number manipulation!