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| If you'd like a challenge, try one of these questions. Because they are meant to stump you for a while, Squigly won't give you the answers just yet. You'll have to come back next month to see the answers to these questions. Answers to the last set of Brain Teasers (October) are here. You can also submit your own brain teasers! Look for new postings December 1, 2008! |
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Romeo and Juliet are found dead in a room. The only things in the room are water, broken glass, and a window. How did they die? John, age 12, USA |
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| 2. | What does this say?
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| 3. | What does this say?
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| 4. | You are participating in a race. You overtake the person in second place. What position are you in now?
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| 5. | There were three men on a business trip. They entered a hotel and paid for the room. The room was 30 dollars. After the men were settled the manager realizes he charged them too much, it should've been $25. He gives the bell hop 5 dollars and tells him to bring it to the men. The bell hop sticks two dollars in his pocket and gives each men $1 dollar. If each man payed $10 and got 1 back they payed $9. If 3x9 is 27, and 27+2 is 29 where did the other dollar go?
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| 6. | A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?
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| 7. | You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely?
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| 8. | What does this say? ar up ms
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| 9. | What does this say?
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| 10. | What kind of dress has numbers?
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| 11. | What is black, white, and red all over?
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| 12. | A guy calls someone but didn't use a phone. Explain.
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| 13. | I'm as light as a feather yet an average man can't hold me more than one minute. What am I?
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| 14. | There were 3 rather large ladies standing under one small umbrella but not one of them got wet. How is that possible?
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| 15. | What has a face and arms but no nose, ears, mouth, eyes, or a body?
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| 16. | What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die?
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| 17. | A woman bought a house in Seattle. She then drives to Sydney. It only takes her 10 mintues. How?
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| 18. | An old, very rich woman dies. She gives all her money to her grandchildren. At the end of her will she tells them she has a diamond that she has hidden. Here is the clue she left: It is in a cylinder surrounded with hundreds of squares. Where did she hide the diamond?
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| 19. | What does this mean? 2th dk
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| 20. | What does this say?
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| 21. | Jon is the father of Peter
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| 22. | What goes up but never comes down?
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| 23. | Some months have 31 days, how many have 28?
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| 24. | The fishmonger is 1.8 meters tall. He wears size 8 shoe and wears XXL shirts. What does he weigh?
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| 25. | What comes next in this set of letters O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, _?
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| 26. | What is black and white and can't fly?
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| 27. | What is heavier, a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
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| 28. | There was a boy born in 1820 but he is only 12. How is this possible?
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| 29. | What does dimity mean?
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| 30. | Though a man deliberately jumped off a ten story building, he was niether injured nor killed in the fall. How can this be?
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| 31. | A red house is made from red bricks. A blues house is made from blue bricks. A yellow house is made from yellow bricks. What is a green house made from?
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| 32. | I am a noun, but I am not a person, place, or thing, and I am something only you know. What am I?
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