Brain Teasers

Can You Think Outside the Box?

Question 1
Can You Make 100?
Remove 9 of the sticks
and make 100.

Answer

When you remove

the 9 sticks you form
the standard form of
the number 100.

Can You Change the Point?

Move only 3 of the coins to
make the triangle point in an
upward direction.

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.

Can You Find 2 Ways to Make Four?

Find 2 ways that you can
rearrange the sticks to
create four.

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.

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.

Row, Columns, and Diagonals

Equal 15 Answer
4

Question 5
A murderer is condemned to
death. He has to choose
between three rooms. The
first is full of raging fires, the
second is full of assassins with
loaded guns, and the third is
full of lions that haven't eaten
in 3 years.
Which room is safest
for him?

Answer
The third.
Lions that haven't
eaten in three years
are dead.

Question 6
A woman shoots her
husband. Then she holds
him under water for over
5 minutes. Finally, she
hangs him. But 5 minutes
later they both go out
together and enjoy a
wonderful dinner
together.
How can this be?

Answer
The woman was a
photographer. She shot
a picture of
her husband,
developed it, and hung
it up to dry.

Question 7
There are two plastic
jugs filled with water.
How could you put all
of this water into a
barrel, without using
the jugs or any
dividers, and still tell
which water came
from which jug?

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.

Question 8
What is black when
you buy it, red when
you use it, and gray
when you throw it
away?

Answer

The answer is
Charcoal.

Question 9
Can you name three
consecutive days
without using the
words Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, or Sunday?

Answer

Sure you can:

Yesterday, Today, and
Tomorrow!

Question 10
What do you see?

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 the
concept that good can't exist
without evil (or the absence of
good is evil)

Question 11
Now what do you see in it?

Answer

You may not see it at first,

but the white spaces read
the word optical, the blue
landscape reads the word
illusion.

Question 12
ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST
Count every " F" in the
following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

Answer
The brain cannot process
"OF".
FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RE SULT OF YEARS OF
SCIENTI 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.

Question 13

What is it that goes up

and goes down
but does not move?

Answer

The temperature

Question 14
A steady stream of people enter
Mike's place of business
and remove its treasured
belongings. The people do not
pay for what they take. Mike
allows them to take as much as
they can carry as long as they
keep their mouths shut. What
are the people taking and
which type of business employs
Mike.

Answer

The people are taking

books and Mike works
for a Library.

Question 15
I have four letters. The
first two stand for a boy.
The first three stand for
a girl. All of my letters
stand for brave boy.
What word am I?

Answer

Hero

Question 16

We were four, one was

cut and we were five.
What are we?

Answer
The answer is the Roman
numeral IV. It stands for
4, and if the one (I) is
taken out, it becomes
Roman numeral V,
which is five.

Question 17
John's mother had four
children. The first was
April, the second was
May, the third was June.
What was the name of
her fourth child?

Answer

John !

Question 18
Using eight eights and
addition only, can you
make 1000?

Answer

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.

Question 19
What has six faces, But
does not wear
makeup. It also has
twenty-one eyes, But
cannot see?

Answer

A dice

Question 20

What seven-letter word

has hundreds of letters
in it?

Answer

Mailbox

Question 21
If you had a ton of
feathers and a ton of
stones which would be
heavier?

Answer

Neither. They both

weigh a ton. Both are
equal

Question 22
A man is looking at a
picture 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 in
relation to the man
looking at the picture?

Answer
The man in the picture is
his son. Since he doesn't
have any brothers or sisters,
the statement my father's
son is himself. A shortened
version would be this man's
father is myself, so he is the
father of the man in the
picture.

Question 23

What number comes next?

2, 2, 4, 12, 48, ___

Answer
240. To get the number,
multiply the previous
number in the series by
its position. 48 is in the
5th position, so 48 5 =
240

Question 24
What does this
represent?
Pot OOOOOOOO

Answer

Potatoes (Pot + 8 Os)

Question 25

Three rooms contain,

1) Gold coins, 2)
Currency notes and 3)
Cotton bags. If all
three rooms catch fire,
which room will the
ambulance pour water
on first?

Answer

An ambulance doesn't
pour water.

Question 26
Two boys weighing 50
pounds each and their
older brother weighing
100 pounds wish to
cross a river. Their boat
will only hold 100
pounds. How can they
all cross the river in the
boat?

Answer
Two 50lb boys cross, one
comes back.
100lb boy crosses, other
50lb boy returns
Both 50lb boys cross.

Question 27
A man saw a snake
crossing the road and
swerved to crush it with
his tires. All the street
lights were off as well as
the car's headlights.
There were no other
lights on along the road.
How did the man see the
snake?

Answer

It was during the daytime