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By Matt Alderton January 14, 2020 January 15, 2020
23 Fun Brain Teasers That Will Test Your Geniusbestlifeonline.com/fun-brain-teasers
Although it isn't actually a muscle, your brain has a lot in common with your biceps: Whenyou exercise it, it gets stronger. Because your brain can't run, do yoga, or lift weights,however, you've got to find a different way to keep it fit—and brain teasers are just thething. In fact, in one 2018 study published in the Journal of the American GeriatricsSociety, people who did brain teasers and other types of "brain training" reportedimprovements in mental sharpness and in their ability to execute mundane tasks, likecooking and accounting. Want to see for yourself? Take a stab at the following puzzlesthat'll test your genius. At the very least, we can guarantee they'll keep you entertained!
Question: Among timepieces, sundials have the fewest movingparts…
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Which timepiece has the most moving parts?
Answer: An hourglass
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It has thousands of grains of sand!
Source: Forbes
Question: Upon taking his car to a hotel, a man immediatelydeclares bankruptcy.
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What's the reasoning?
Answer: He's playing Monopoly
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Source: Forbes
Question: A man is stranded on a riverbank with a wolf, a sheep,and a cabbage…
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He finds a raft with which to cross the river, but the raft can fit only himself and either thewolf, the sheep, or the cabbage. If he leaves the wolf with the sheep, the wolf will eat thesheep. If he leaves the sheep with the cabbage, the sheep will eat the cabbage. How can theman cross the river with the wolf, the sheep, and the cabbage?
Answer: The man crosses first with the sheep, leaving the wolfwith the cabbage…
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He returns alone, then crosses with the wolf, leaving the cabbage behind. He leaves thewolf alone and returns with the sheep. The man leaves the sheep and crosses with thecabbage. He leaves the cabbage with the wolf and crosses one last time, returning with thesheep. Finally, all four are safe on the other side of the river.
Source: Adapted from Icebreaker Ideas
Question: A woman is born in 2020, but dies in 1995.
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How can this be?
Answer: The woman was born in 2020 B.C.
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Source: Adapted from Reader's Digest
Question: This five-letter word becomes shorter when you addtwo letters to it.
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What's the word?
Answer: Short
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Source: Reader's Digest
Question: A family has two parents and six sons. Each of thesons has one sister.
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How many people are in the family?
Answer: Nine
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Two parents, six sons, and one daughter!
Source: Reader's Digest
Question: The water level in a reservoir is low, but doubles everyday. It takes 60 days to fill the reservoir.
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How long does it take for the reservoir to become half full?
Answer: 59 days
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Your first instinct probably is to divide 60 in half. But if the water level doubles every day,the reservoir on any given day was half the size the day prior. If the reservoir is full on day60, that means it was half full on day 59—not on day 30.
Source: Adapted from Good Housekeeping
Question: How many squares are there?
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Puzzles and Riddles
Hint: Don't forget the big square!
Answer: 40
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Source: Good Housekeeping
Question: In what number parking spot is the car parked?
Puzzler's World
Hint: There's a peculiar pattern here.
Answer: 87
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Once you realize that you're reading the numbers upside-down, you'll see that the car isparked in spot No. 87.
Source: Ranker
Question: You're in a cabin with no electricity. Come nightfall,you have a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp, but only onematch.
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What do you light first?
Answer: The match
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Source: Ranker
Question: In your pocket are two newly minted U.S. coins with asum of 30 cents. One isn't a nickel.
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What two coins are in your pocket?
Answer: A nickel and a quarter
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Only one of the coins is excluded from being a nickel.
Source: Ranker
Question: A cowboy gallops into town on Monday, stays for twodays, and leaves town on Monday.
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How can this be?
Answer: His horse's name is Monday
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Source: Adapted from Ranker
Question: You're stuck in a room with three exits…
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One exit leads to a pit of venomous snakes. Another exit leads to a lethal inferno. The thirdand final exit leads to a pool of great white sharks that haven't eaten for six months. Whichdoor should you choose?
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Answer: The third door
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Great white sharks typically can only live three months without food.
Source: Adapted from Ranker
Question: What can be found once in a minute, twice in amoment, and never in a thousand years?
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Hint: Look closely and you'll see the answer.
Answer: The letter M
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Source: Quora
Question: How far can a squirrel run into the woods?
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Hint: Nope, he's not a particularly fast squirrel.
Answer: Halfway
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After that, he's running back out of the woods.
Source: Icebreaker Ideas
Question: You're running a race. Before you cross the finish line,you pass the person who is in second place.
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In what place did you finish?
Answer: Second place
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Source: Good Housekeeping
Question: You need 7 gallons of water, but you only have twojugs with which to measure: a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug.
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How do you measure exactly 7 gallons?
Answer: First, you fill the 5-gallon jug from the faucet…
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You then pour the contents of the 5-gallon jug into the 3-gallon jug until the 3-gallon jug isfull. That leaves 2 gallons of water in the 5-gallon jug. Next, you dump out the 3-gallon jugand pour the 2 gallons of water from the 5-gallon jug into the empty 3-gallon jug. Finally,fill the 5-gallon jug from the faucet a second time; those 5 gallons plus the 2 gallons in the3-gallon jug equals 7 gallons.
Source: Icebreaker Ideas
Question: What are the next three letters in the sequenceWATNTL?
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Hint: The answer's right there in the question.
Answer: ITS
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The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence.
Source: Icebreaker Ideas
Question: You're driving a bus. The bus starts out empty…
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At the first stop, two people get on. At the second stop, eight people get on and one person37/46
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gets off. At the third stop, three people get on and five people get off. The bus is yellow, butwhat color is the bus driver's hair?
Answer: Whatever color your hair is.
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Remember? You're the bus driver!
Source: Adapted from Icebreaker Ideas
Question: Which word logically comes next in this sequence?Spots, tops, pots, opts…
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Hint: Look closely at the letters used to spell each word.
Answer: Stop
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All the words are anagrams of each other!
Source: The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
Question: The letters of the word dormitory can be rearranged toproduce a two-word phrase that describes a typical dormitory.What is that phrase?
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Hint: Think about the words you'd use to describe your child's dorm room…
Answer: "Dirty room"
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…Which is appropriate in this situation.
Source: The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
Question: I have seven billiard balls, one of which weighs lessthan the other six. Otherwise, they all look exactly the same…
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How can I identify the one that weighs less on a balance scale, using that scale no morethan two times?
Answer: Separate six of the seven balls into two piles of threeand weigh them against each other…
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…If the scale balances, then you know that the heavier ball is the seventh remaining ball. Ifthe scale isn't balanced, then take the heavier side and weigh any two of those three ballsagainst one another. Either the scale will reveal that one of those two balls is the heavierone, or it will balance and reveal that the remaining ball is your culprit.
Source: The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
Question: What is the probability of obtaining either a 6 or a 7when throwing a pair of dice?
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Bet you're wishing you paid attention in fifth grade math, huh?
Answer: 11/36
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The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
To solve this one, start by listing the number of ways to throw either a 6 or a 7. There are36 possible throws of two dice, because each of the six faces of the first die is matched withany of the six faces of the second one. Of these 36 possible throws, 11 produce either a 6 ora 7. Therefore, the probability of throwing either a 6 or a 7 is 11/36.
Source: The 125 Best Brain Teasers of All Time
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