Brain Teaser 1
There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right of the house in the middle, this is the location of the white house.
Where is 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C.?
You are in a cabin, and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. You think about what in the cabin you could light on fire with it. There's a newspaper, a lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. This is what you decide to light first.
What is the match?
The biggest of Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby.
What is the baby? (It's a little Bigger.)
Mike works as a butcher. He is 5'10" tall and eats mostly pork, but sometimes chicken too. The nutritionist tells Mike that he has an average BMI (body mass index). This is what Mike weighs.
What is "meat?" (It's a part of his job, as a butcher.)
A farmer has 17 sheep (10 male and 7 female). A flood comes and all but nine die. Five sheep that died were male. This many sheep survived the flood.
What is nine? (All but nine died.)
The next three letters in the following sequence:
J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, ___, ___, ___
What are S, O, N (September, October, and November)?
Jimmy's mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. The answer is the name of that fourth child.
What is "Jimmy?"
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A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Three quarters of the passengers are dead. The plane's left half is on the American side, and the plane's right half is on the Canadian side. This describes where the survivors are buried.
What is "nowhere?" (You don't bury the survivors.)
In a year there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. This many months have 28.
What is "12?" (All of them. Even a month with 31 days starts with 28 days.)
You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on. At the second stop, three men get on and one woman gets off. At the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off. The bus is grey, and it's raining outside. This is the color of the bus driver's hair.
What is (the color of the hair of the person asking the question)? (Because that person is the driver.)
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. This is what I am.
What is fire?
This can be held without ever touching or using your hands.
What is your breath?
First, I threw away the outside, and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside, and threw away the inside. This is what I ate.
What is corn on the cob?
I am full of holes but I can still hold water. This is what I am.
What is a sponge?
Hot or cold-- this one travels the fastest.
What is hot? (Because you can always catch a cold.)
This will make the number 7 even, without using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
What is taking away the first "s?"
There are 20 people in an empty, octagonal room. Each person in the room has full sight of the entire room and everyone else in it, without turning their head or body, or moving in any way (other than their eyes). This is where you can place an apple so not everybody can see it.
Where is on top of one person's head?
I am always in you, but only sometimes on you. If I surround you, I can kill you. This is what I am.
What is water?
A tricky way to take 2 from 5 and still end up with more than three.
What is "removing 'F' and 'E' from 'FIVE', leaving the Roman numeral 'IV?'"
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.
What is a baby bird, breaking through an egg?
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You were born in a one story house made entirely of redwood planks. You've never been outside the house. Inside the house, three walls have dark green paint and six walls have dark blue paint. The floor everywhere is unpainted. The ceiling is white. This is what you can know about the color of the stairs.
What is "nothing?" (It's a one story house, so the stairs are outside, where you've never been.)
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard were both only children. After they got married, they had 6 daughters, and each daughter has 3 brothers. They all still live at home. One teenaged grandchild also lives with the family. This is the number of aunts and uncles living with the family.
What is 8? (There are 9 children of the couple. Each of the six daughters has the same 3 brothers. Only the parent of the grandson is not an aunt or uncle.)
I have six faces but I'd never wear makeup. I have twenty one eyes, one of which is reptilian. Even so, I still can't see anything. This is what I am.
What is a die? (A pair of dice rolled with one dot on each is called "snake eyes.")