Brain teasers with answers
Brain teasers with answers
Brain teasers with answers for kids and adults require a little extra brain power to solve and are a good way to exercise your brain!
1.The doctor riddle
A doctor and a taxi driver are both in love with the same attractive woman, named Mary.The taxi driver had to go on a long trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Mary seven apples. Why?
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ANSWER
Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away!
2.What day riddle
What day would yesterday be if Thursday was four days before the day after tommorow?
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ANSWER
Friday.
3.The river brain teaser
A man stands on one side of a river and his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat.How did the dog do it?
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ANSWER
The river was frozen.
4.Five men were eating apples riddle
Five men were eating apples. A finished before B but behind C. D finished before E but behind B.
What was the finishing order?
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ANSWER
C-A-B-D-E.
5.How old is John?
When Mary is twice as old as Frank, then I shall be 17 years old.
But Mary was 23 when Frank was twice as old as me. That’s what John said.
How old was John when Frank was ten?
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ANSWER
Suppose that John is x years younger than Frank.
Hence after 17 – x years, Frank is 17 + x years old, Johns is 17, and Mary must be 23 + 17 – x or equivalently 40 – x.
But we have 40 – x= 2 (17 + x) which provides x equal to 2.
Therefore John is 8 years old when Frank is 10.
6.A place of meeting
As a whole I am both safe and secure. Behead me and I become a place of meeting.Behead me again and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.What am I?
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ANSWER
A Stable.
7.Brain teaser two words
What two words when combined contain the most letters?
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ANSWER
Post office.
8.How many cups riddle
A grandmother, 2 mothers and 2 daughters went to the cafe.They ordered one cup of coffee each.
What was the total number of cups they ordered?
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ANSWER
Three cups of coffee, one for each person. The grandmother is also a mother and the mother is also a daughter.
Another solution
Two cups of coffee. Both people are mothers and daughters and one is also a grandmother.
9.Yesterday riddle
I’m where yesterday follows today and tomorrow’s in the middle. What am I?
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ANSWER
A dictionary.
10.How many holes brain teaser
If 6 men take around 4 hours to dig 4 holes, how long will it take for three men to dig half a hole?
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ANSWER
There is no such thing as half a hole, so it cannot be dug!
11.The sequence
What are the next three letters in the following sequence? J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, _, _, _?
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ANSWER
It’s S, O, N. The sequence is the first letter of the months of the year. The next in the sequence are September, October and November.
- Now try to solve these riddles!