Brain Teasers
I am a word of six; my first three letters refer to an automobile; my last three letters refer to a household animal; my first four letters is a fish; my whole is found in your room. What am I?
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still - he didn't break any traffic laws.
Why not?
He was walking...not driving.
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Candle or Pencil
bcdfgh__?
J
How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550? Can you figure it out?
Draw a line on the first plus sign that turns it into a 4! The equation then becomes true: 545+5=550. You could also change the equal symbol to a crossed out equal symbol which means "not equal to".
The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder?
What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
A Stamp
What kind of goose fights with snakes?
A mongoose
She counted the pits!
In a stable there are men and horses. In all, there are 22 heads and 72 feet. How many men and how many horses are in the stable?
14 horses and 8 men. 14x4 plus 8x2 = 72 feet.
What day would yesterday be if Thursday was four days before the day after tomorrow?
Friday
How can you make seven even?
Remove the letter 's'
There are 30 cows in a field, and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
10. Listen closely: 30 cows, and twenty-eight chickens. Say EIGHT and ATE. They sound the same. Therefore, it means 20 ATE chickens. 30-20=10, so 10 cows didn't eat any chickens.
Other than being colors, what do the words orange, silver and purple have in common?
There is no word in the English language that rhymes with them.
A sphere has three, a circle has two, and a point has zero. What is it?
Dimensions
Tommorrow Is Neither Wednesday Nor Thursday. Yesterday Was Not Friday Or Saturday. Today Is Not Thursday Nor Monday Nor Sunday. What Day Is Today?
Friday
How many seconds are there in one year?
12
Is an old hundred rupee note better than a new one?
Well, it's worth 99 more rupees.
There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. "This barrel of wine is more than half full," said the Madam. "No it's not," says the man. "It's less than half full." Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?
Tilt the barrel until the wine barely touches the lip of the barrel. If the bottom of the barrel is visible then it is less than half full. If the barrel bottom is still completely covered by the wine, then it is more than half full.
If 4+2=26, 8+1=79 and 6+5=111. Then, what is 7+3?
410
You walk up to a mountain that has two paths. One leads to the other side of the mountain, and the other will get you lost forever. Two twins know the path that leads to the other side. You can ask them only one question. Except! One lies and one tells the truth, and you don't know which is which. So, What do you ask?
You ask each twin What would your brother say?. This works because.... Well let's say the correct path is on the left side. So say you asked the liar "What would your brother say?" Well, the liar would know his brother was honest and he would say the left side, but since the liar lies, he would say right. If you asked the honest twin the same question, he would say right, because he knows his brother will lie. Therefore, you would know that the correct path was the left!
A man was found dead next to a 13 story building. The police say it was a suicide, but you say it was a homicide (someone killed him). To prove this, you go to each floor on the building, open the window, and toss a penny out. You do this to each floor until you reach the 13th floor, open the window, and toss a penny out. How does this prove it wasn't a suicide?
If the man committed suicide, he would've left the window open and you wouldn't have had to open it.
What snacks do you serve at a robot party?
Assorted nuts!
One of the four words does not belong with the other three. Which word does not belong? What is it that the others have in common?
1. Green, yellow, red, blue
2. April, December, November, June
3. Cirrus, calculus, cumulus, stratus
4. Carrots, radishes, potatoes, cabbages
5. Fork, comb,rake, shovel
1. Green
2. December
3. Calculus
4. Cabbages
5. Shovel
When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?
The difference in age is 23 years, so I must be 23 if my father is twice as old as me.