Brainteasers 01
What has to be broken before it can be used?
an egg
Five apples are in a basket. How do you divide them among five people so that each person gets an apple, but one apple remains in the basket?
Give the fifth girl her apple in the basket.
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Your left hand
I wear a tuxedo in the snow and skate on my tummy across the ice. What am I?
A penguin
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
a candle
Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy, and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Just remove the letter ‘S’. It becomes ‘EVEN’
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep yet?
If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?
Five minutes
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
a mushroom
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
eat becomes ate
When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock.
I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty. What am I?
A skull
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 am I?
A chick in an egg.
When may a man's coat pocket be empty, and yet have something in it?
When it has a hole in it.
How do you spell hard water with three letters?
ice
If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there?
Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet.
There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?
Place the apple on one person's head.
There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?
Just four, in a square formation.
I have lots of eyes but I cannot see. What am I?
What tastes better than it smells?
Your tongue
Place the apple on one person's head.
F I V E Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV which is the Roman numeral for four.
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath
I sleep by day and fly at night, but I have no feathers to aid my flight. If you see me, I may give you a fright!
What am I?
A bat
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?