Brain Teasers #1
Go to where you find news of June. Her exploits and her fate. There is an image posted there, on this calendar date. The password that you need is what is depicted there. So name it and you have your code. Surely that is fair
The answer is Bird.
I am always in front of you, but you will never see me. What am I?
The future
What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out?
Keyhole
1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river.
Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river.
Every monkey holds 1 parrot in its hands.
How many Animals are going towards the river?
5 Animals.
Let's go through the question again.
1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river. Hence, 1 animal (a rabbit) is going towards the river.
Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. This is the tricky part, from the sentence it seems to imply each of the 6 elephants saw 2 monkeys going towards the river, hence logically will be 6 x 2 = 12 animals (monkeys) going towards the river.
However, the statement does not explicitly mention that Every elephant saw 2 DIFFERENT monkeys, hence implicit rules apply and infer that the 2 monkeys are the same.
Hence, the correct answer is that every elephant saw 2 monkeys, and by inference, the 2 monkeys are the same, hence there exist only 2 monkeys which are going towards the river !!
Finally, every monkey holds 1 parrot in its hands. Hence, 2 parrots are going towards the river.
So in total, 1 rabbit, 2 monkeys and 2 parrots (5 animals) are going towards the river.
What starts off temporary but ends permanently?
The letter 'T'
(T)emporary and Permanen(t)
What does this mean?
1 knows
Won by a nose
A blind man gets marooned in a desert. He has 2 red pills and 2 blue pills with him. The pills are identical in size and shape. To stay alive, he must take 1 red pill and 1 blue pill.
Any other combination of pills would bring him certain death. How can the blind man ensure that he takes exactly 1 red pill and 1 blue pill?
The man will break each of the 4 pills in half and eat 1 half from each of the pills.
7.00 am. You are asleep and there is a sudden knock on the door. Behind the door are your parents, who came to have breakfast. In your fridge: bread, milk(pasteurized), juice, and a jar of jam. What will you open first?
Your eyes
I am a rare case where today comes before yesterday. What am I?
A dictionary
When someone else ate, you became full of me. What am I?
Jealousy
Mr. Jones had 4 daughters.
Each daughter had a brother. How many children does Mr. Jones have?
Zero. If read to grammatical perfection, the riddle uses the word 'had' in a past-tense format which means he no longer has children.
Therefore all of the daughters and brothers could be from a prior marriage, affair, etc. Although, again, the riddle doesn't specify that the brothers are 'stepbrothers.'
A man pushes his car and stops in front of a hotel and immediately goes bankrupt. What is he doing?
Playing Monopoly.
You walk into a room and see a bed. On the bed, there are two dogs, four cats, a giraffe, five cows, and a duck. There are also three chickens flying above the bed. How many legs are on the floor?
There are six legs on the floor. Four legs from the bed and your own two legs as you stand in the room.
All the animals are on the bed and not on the floor.
I run, it runs, I stop, it runs
What is it?
My watch
A train leaves from Halifax, Nova Scotia heading towards Vancouver, British Columbia at 120 km/h. Three hours later, a train leaves Vancouver heading towards Halifax at 180 km/h. Assume there are exactly 6000 kilometers between Vancouver and Halifax. When they meet, which train is closer to Halifax?
Both trains would be at the same spot when they meet therefore they are both equally close to Halifax.
When I am filled I can point the way. When I am empty, nothing moves me. I have two skins; One without and one within. What am I?
A glove
Prisoners were told that they have a chance to be free. There are 2 doors and a security guard near each door. One guard is a liar and the other one always tells the truth. One door leads to freedom, while the other door will lead the prisoners to the execution room.
The prisoners can talk to only ONE guard, and ask only ONE question. Which question should they ask to find the door that will take them to freedom?
They should ask any guard "is the freedom door next to the lying guard?" If the guard answers "yes" they should go to the other door. if it was the liar, the other door takes them to freedom. If it was the honest guard, the other door is also what the prisoners want. If the guard answers "no" they should go to the door next to him: if it was the liar, the door next to him takes them to freedom. If it was the honest guard, the door next to him is also the right choice.
4 girls are in a room: Aire is playing chess. Maria is watching television. Anna is asleep. What is the fourth girl doing?
Playing Chess with Aire, as Chess is a two-person game!
What is used for safety, but is not safe?
A safety pin
What walks when you tie it up but stops when you untie it?
Shoes
Frank was born in 1933 and died in 1946 at the age of 57. How can this be?
He was born in the hospital room in 1933 and died in room 1946.
A prisoner escaped from prison and began to dash foot. He ran for about 3 miles with intermittent stops to catch his breath until he saw a police car coming towards him. Instead of turning in the opposite direction and making a run for it, the man ran towards the police car briefly before turning and running into a nearby woods to hide. Why did the man run towards the police car?
The man was more than halfway across a bridge when he spotted the police car, so the quickest way to leave the bridge was to run towards the police car and then turn and run into the woods to hide.
I'm always wet but never dirty. I am a solid-liquid. What am I?
A Bubble.
I visit you every night even if you don't call me! I'm lost every day. What Am I?
Stars
We share the same name,
but mean two different things
one goes up and down
and the other spins
while one can make you sick
the other you cannot touch
you have heard of me before
whether you know it or not
you know our name
just give it a thought
One is a messenger
the other is not
One gives you a reading
The other helps the Oracle
What are we?
Mercury (Messenger is Hermes, or in Latin it is Mercury)