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Brain Teasers
Can You Think Outside the Box?
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Question 1
Can You Make 100?
Remove 9 of the sticksand make 100.
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Answer
When you remove
the 9 sticks you form
the standard form of
the number 100.
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Can You Change the Point?
Move only 3 of the coins tomake the triangle point in an
upward direction.
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Can You Change the Point? Answer
Move the 2 quarters in the top corners
down 2 rows. Place the quarter on the
bottom point to the top to make a point.
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Can You Find 2 Ways to Make Four?
Find 2 ways that you canrearrange the sticks to
create four.
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Can You Find 2 Ways to Make Four? Answer
One solution is to create
the standard form of 4
and the other is to create
the roman numeral for 4.
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Can You Make the Rows, Columns,
and Diagonals Equal 15?
Arrange the numbers 1 through 9 in the
table so that the numbers in each row,
column, and diagonal adds up to 15.
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Row, Columns, and Diagonals
Equal 15 Answer
4 3 89 5 1
2 7 6
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Question 5
A murderer is condemned todeath. He has to choosebetween three rooms. Thefirst is full of raging fires, thesecond is full of assassins withloaded guns, and the third isfull of lions that haven't eaten
in 3 years.
Which room is safestfor him?
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Answer
The third.
Lions that haven'teaten in three years
are dead.
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Question 6
A woman shoots herhusband. Then she holds
him under water for over
5 minutes. Finally, shehangs him. But 5 minutes
later they both go out
together and enjoy a
wonderful dinner
together.
How can this be?
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Answer
The woman was a
photographer. She shot
a picture of
her husband,
developed it, and hung
it up to dry.
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Question 7
There are two plasticjugs filled with water.
How could you put all
of this water into abarrel, without using
the jugs or any
dividers, and still tell
which water came
from which jug?
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Answer
Freeze them first. Take
them out of the jugs
and put the ice in the
barrel. You will be
able to tell which water
came from which jug.
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Question 8
What is black when
you buy it, red when
you use it, and gray
when you throw it
away?
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Answer
The answer isCharcoal.
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Question 9
Can you name threeconsecutive days
without using the
words Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, or Sunday?
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Answer
Sure you can:Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow!
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Question 10
What do you see?
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Answer
In black you can read the word
GOOD, in white the word
EVIL (inside each black letter
is a white letter).
It's all very physiological too,
because it visualizes theconcept that good can't exist
without evil (or the absence of
good is evil)
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Question 11
Now what do you see in it?
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Answer
You may not see it at first,
but the white spaces readthe word optical, the blue
landscape reads the word
illusion.
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Question 12
ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST
Count every " F" in the
following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THERESULT OF YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
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Answer
The brain cannot process"OF".
FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RE SULT OF YEARS OFSCIENTI FIC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
Anyone who counts all 6 "F's"on the first go is a genius.
Three is normal, four is quite
rare.
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Question 13
What is it that goes up
and goes down
but does not move?
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Answer
The temperature
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Question 14
A steady stream of people enter
Mike's place of business
and remove its treasured
belongings. The people do notpay for what they take. Mike
allows them to take as much as
they can carry as long as they
keep their mouths shut. Whatare the people taking and
which type of business employs
Mike.
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Answer
The people are takingbooks and Mike works
for a Library.
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Question 15
I have four letters. Thefirst two stand for a boy.
The first three stand for
a girl. All of my lettersstand for brave boy.
What word am I?
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Answer
Hero
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Question 16
We were four, one wascut and we were five.
What are we?
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Answer
The answer is the Romannumeral IV. It stands for
4, and if the one (I) is
taken out, it becomesRoman numeral V,
which is five.
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Question 17
John's mother had fourchildren. The first was
April, the second was
May, the third was June.
What was the name of
her fourth child?
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Answer
John !
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Question 18
Using eight eights and
addition only, can you
make 1000?
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Answer
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
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Question 19
What has six faces, Butdoes not wear
makeup. It also has
twenty-one eyes, Butcannot see?
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Answer
A dice
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Question 20
What seven-letter word
has hundreds of letters
in it?
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Answer
Mailbox
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Question 21
If you had a ton offeathers and a ton of
stones which would be
heavier?
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Answer
Neither. They bothweigh a ton. Both are
equal
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Question 22
A man is looking at apicture of a man on the
wall and states: Brothers
and sisters I have none,but this man's father is
my father's son. Who is
the man in the picture inrelation to the man
looking at the picture?
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Answer
The man in the picture ishis son. Since he doesn't
have any brothers or sisters,
the statement my father'sson is himself. A shortened
version would be this man's
father is myself, so he is the
father of the man in the
picture.
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Question 23
What number comes next?
2, 2, 4, 12, 48, ___
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Answer
240. To get the number,multiply the previous
number in the series by
its position. 48 is in the5th position, so 48 5 =
240
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Question 24
What does this
represent?
Pot OOOOOOOO
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Answer
Potatoes (Pot + 8 Os)
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Question 25
Three rooms contain,1) Gold coins, 2)
Currency notes and 3)
Cotton bags. If all
three rooms catch fire,
which room will theambulance pour water
on first?
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Answer
An ambulance doesn'tpour water.
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Question 26
Two boys weighing 50pounds each and their
older brother weighing
100 pounds wish tocross a river. Their boat
will only hold 100
pounds. How can theyall cross the river in the
boat?
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Answer
Two 50lb boys cross, onecomes back.
100lb boy crosses, other
50lb boy returnsBoth 50lb boys cross.
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Question 27
A man saw a snakecrossing the road and
swerved to crush it with
his tires. All the streetlights were off as well as
the car's headlights.
There were no otherlights on along the road.
How did the man see the
snake?
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Answer
It was during the daytime
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