Brain
Teasers
Teasers
A detective who was mere days from cracking an international smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-known location, you find a note: 710 57735 34 5508 51 7718
Currently there are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd. Can you break the detective’s code and find the criminal’s name?
Bill. If you read the message upside down, you’ll notice that the numbers resemble letters and that those letters form legible sentences. The message is "Bill is boss. He sells oil."
Shauna was killed one Sunday morning. The police know who they are going to arrest from this bit of information:
April was getting the mail
Alyssa was doing laundry
Reggie was cooking
Mark was planting in the garden
Who killed Shauna and how did the police know who to arrest?
April killed Shauna because there is no mail delivery on Sundays.
A farmer has seventeen sheep. All but nine of them die. How many sheep does he have left?
Nine.
Our teacher was absent yesterday, so we had a substatute.
Which underlined word is NOT spelled correctly?
Solve: x = 29 – 3(9 – 4)
14
How was mail delivered in the days of the Old West?
By Pony Express.
A man is found dead one Saturday morning. He was killed while his wife was sleeping. The wife tells the police all that she knows. She tells them that the cook was cooking breakfast, the maid was cleaning and the butler was getting the mail. The police immediately arrest the person who is responsible. Who is responsible and why?
The wife because she was sleeping, how could she know that all of that happened?!
What does this say?
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
Forgive
Which sentence has all the words spelled correctly and makes sense?
A bass was painted on the head of the base drum.
5.01 + 23.4 =
28.41
What has a face and arms but no nose, ears, mouth, eyes, or body?
A clock
A crime has been committed at Freemont Street. The main suspect is a man named Sean Baker. It was said that a man had been walking along the pathway when he was suddenly shot in the stomach. The suspect had brown hair, blue eyes and wore a baggy Armani suit just like Sean Baker's.
Sean was asked to tell the story right from the beginning. "Well," said Sean, "I was just hanging around the park when I saw this man walking along the pathway. Suddenly, a guy came up from behind him and shot him! I ran home as fast as I could." The policemen asked him to give a description of the murderer. "He had a red moustache, red hair and a baggy Armani suit on."
"I think this man is telling a lie," said one of the policemen. How did he know?
How can the murderer shoot him in the stomach if he came up behind the man?
If 7 is transformed into 13 and 11 is changed to 21 then what does 16 become?
31, because I multiplied the number by 2 and subtracted one.
Which shows that the backpack belongs to Andy?
6 2/3 + 50 2/3
57 1/3
Jenny dropped an earring in her coffee yet the earring didn't get wet. How did this happen?
The earring was dropped in the coffee grounds.
A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?
The poison from the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually, as the ice cubes melted the poison was released into the punch.
How many apples can you fit into an empty box?
One, then it isn’t empty anymore.
The students neatly stacked __________ books on the table.
Choose the correct pronoun.
Their
Order each fraction from least to greatest.
1/2, 1/3, 5/6, 2/3, 1/6
How can you take 9 toothpicks and make ten without breaking the toothpicks?
TEN (every line making the letters in the word ten is one toothpick. There are nine lines you draw when writing ten, so there are 9 toothpicks making TEN).
There is a man found dead in a circular mansion. The detective interviews the cook, maid, and babysitter. The cook said he couldn't have done it because he was preparing the meal. The maid said she couldn't have done it because she was dusting the corners. The babysitter said she couldn't because she was playing with the children. Who was lying?
The maid. There are no corners in a circular mansion.
Add 9 + 1. Then multiply 9 x 1. Do you get the same answer each time?
No. 9 + 1 = 10 and 9 x 1 = 9.
Receiving the award was exciting for Steve and Shelly.
Which word can be used in place of the underlined words?
them
What is the name of a polygon with six sides?