A thief was brought before a king to receive his punishment. The king, feeling merciful, asked the thief how he would like to die. The thief told him, and the king let him go. How did the thief wish to die?

He wanted to die of natural causes.
 

One man shows another the portrait of a gentleman and tells him: I have neither brothers nor sisters, but this man's father is the son of my father. Who is the man in the painting?

The gentleman in the portrait is the son of the man who is speaking.
 

Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?

They were a grandmother, mother and daughter.
 

You're in a room with 3 light switches. Next to your room is another room with the door closed. Inside that room are 3 lights. You do not know which switch controls which light. How can you figure out which switch controls which light? You can only enter the room with the lights once.

Turn one switch on and leave it on for 1 hour. This is switch A. After the hour is up turn the light off and turn another light on (switch B). Go in to the room with the lights. The light that's hot is light A. The light that is on is light B. and the light that is off, but not hot is light C.
 

You are in a bathroom with stone walls and no windows. You start to run a bath when the handles come off and there is no way of turning the tap off. You can't escape because the door is locked and there are no windows. The room will flood and you will drown. How can you save yourself?

Pull the plug in the tub.
 

You leave home and go to your right. You reach a corner and turn left. You reach another corner and turn left again. You reach another corner and turn left again and go home. When you get there, there is a person with a mask there waiting for you. What's happening?

You are playing baseball.
 

A man is lying dead in the middle of a clearing, in the middle of a forest, in the middle of a puddle, in a scuba suit. How did he die?

Impact killed him. The man was swimming in a lake and there was a fire in the forest. A helicopter came to pick up water so the fire could be put out. It accidentally picked up the man and unknowingly dumped him from hundreds of feet on to the fire. He hit the ground and died.
 

A man and his wife were driving in a car, when the wife's behaviour caused him to stop the car and rush to the nearest house. When he returned to the car, he found his poor wife at death's door and there was a stranger in the car with her. When the police arrived, they did not arrest or even question the stranger. How come?

The woman had delivered a baby.
 

Three girls are taking a bull to the zoo when their car brakes down. They motion for a guy to pull over. They ask to use his phone to call the zoo. He agrees, but says it would cost them $1 for every word. They only had $1 dollar. They paid the man and five minutes later the zoo was there. What was the one word used?

Comfortable- com(come) for(for) ta(the) ble(bull)
 

Two men went to a pet store to buy a puppy. The first man paid $10 and the clerk asked him if he would like a poodle, a labrador, or a golden retriever. The man chose a poodle. The other man gave the clerk $10. The clerk gave the man a golden retriever. The clerk and man both said nothing. How did the clerk know what the man wanted?

The prices for the dogs were: Poodle $8, Labrador $9, Golden Retriever $10. The first man put down a $10 bill so he could chose what he wanted. The second man put down $10, one $5 bill and five $1 bills therefore the clerk knew what the man wanted.
 

A man was outside taking a walk, when it started to rain. The man didn't have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

The man was bald.
 

There are eight chairs around a table. There is a mom, grandpa, sister, brother, aunt, grandma, uncle, another sister, another mom, another brother, a dad, a father- in- law, a mother in law, another dad and one more uncle. They're all seated comfortably. How is this possible with only eight chairs?

The mom, grandma and mother-in-law are all one person. The mom, aunt, sister are all one person. The brother and uncle are one person. The Dad, father-in-law and grandpa are one person. The sisters are one person. The brothers are one person. The uncles are one person. The dads are one person. Total amount of people=8.
 

A miller asks to marry the king's daughter. The king makes a deal with the miller and says he will write yes on one card and no on another card. The miller will have to draw one card in front of the whole village. The night before the miller was to draw the card he heard that the king was going to write no on both cards. How can the miller be sure he gets to marry the king's daughter?

He draws his card, rips it up and tells the king to read what's on the card that isn't ripped. The king will draw the no card so the people will think the millers card said yes.
 

A farmer has a sack of grain, a chicken and a fox. He has to get them across the river and he can't go around or fly but he does have a boat. He can only take one thing at a time across the river. How can he get them across?

Take the chicken over and leave the fox and the grain. Go get the fox drop it off and pickup the chicken. Take the chicken back across and pickup the grain and leave the chicken. Drop the grain off with the fox and take the chicken over now all of them are on one side!
 

You are coming back from a vacation. You want to go to village A. Village A always tells the truth, never lies. Village B always lies and never tells the truth. So, you come across two paths one leads to village A and the other leads to village B. You don't know which is which. A person comes from behind you. You don't know whether he is from village A or B. What can you ask him to choose the right path to village A?

"Can you point to the path in which you are from?" (If he is the truth teller and is from village A, he'll point to village A. If he's the liar from village B, he'll lie and point to village A.)
 

This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.

The letter E, the most common letter in the English language is missing from the entire paragraph!
 

A boy is stuck on a deserted island. There is a bridge to connect the island to the mainland. Halfway across the bridge there is a guard. The guard will not let anyone from the mainland to the island, or anyone from the island to the mainland. If the guard catches someone, he sends him or her back. The guard sleeps for 30 seconds and then is awake for 5 minutes. The island is surrounded by man-eating sharks, and the boy does not have anything with him except for his own shirt and his pants. It takes the boy 1 minute to cross the bridge. How does he cross the bridge without getting caught?

The boy runs halfway across the bridge and turns around. The boy looks like he is running to the island and is sent to the mainland.
 

AJ, Celeste, Juan, Kara, Lily, and Randy all live on Redwood Avenue. Each of their house numbers has three digits, but the only digits in their house numbers are 2, 3, 5, and 6. The same digit may appear in one address more than once.
AJ’s house number is Juan’s house number doubled.
Juan lives next to Lily and right across from Randy.
Randy’s number is the lowest on the street.
Celeste’s number is a higher number than AJ’s but has the same three digits as his. They both have the same digit in the hundreds place.
Kara’s house number is the reverse of Juan’s.
What is each person’s street address?

AJ’s street address is 526 Redwood Avenue.
Celeste’s street address is 562 Redwood Avenue.
Juan’s street address is 263 Redwood Avenue.
Kara’s street address is 362 Redwood Avenue.
Lily’s street address is 265 Redwood Avenue.
Randy’s street address is 262 Redwood Avenue.
 

There was once a lazy man. His father was angry that he did not help in the fields and gave him a task to accomplish. He asked his son to bring him something to eat, something to drink, something to feed the pig and something that would grow a crop, all contained in one item. What did the son bring his father?

A watermelon. The flesh to eat, the juice to drink, the rind to feed the pig and the seeds to grow a crop.
 

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead men got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other!
What is wrong with this?

Day to night, dead men cannot fight, back to back how could they face each other, swords don't shoot.
 

500 at the beginning, 500 at the end,
5 in the middle is seen,
The first of all letters, the first of all figures
Take up their stations between,
String them all together, and you will see
The name of an ancient king.

500 is D (in Roman numerals), so D _ _ _ D. Then 5 is V (also Roman numerals) so now we have D _ V _ D. The first of all letters is A, and the first of all Roman numerals/figures is I. Now we have DAVID!
 

An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn't know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straw, but there was not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled the room, so he obtained his father's fortune. What were the two things that the man bought and what was able to fill the room?

The wise son brought a candle and a box of matches. After lighting the candle, the light filled the entire room.
 

How many of each kind of animal did Moses take on the ark?

Moses? I thought it was Noah!
 

What is the only word in the English language that has 6 letters, all in alphabetical order?

Almost.
 

A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays for three days, then leves on Friday. How did he do it?

His horse's name was Friday.
 

What hefty 7 letter word can you take away 2 letters and it makes eight?

Weighty! Take away the W and the Y and you have the word eight.
 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have seven daughters. If each daughter has a brother how many children do Mr. and Mrs. Smith have?

They have eight children.
 

This brain teaser involves a family relationship and a gun.

Son of a gun.
 

What number can you take half of and leave nothing?

8=o
 

An old man had been browsing for some time. He finally walked up to the girl behind the counter and handed her a book. She looked at the tag on the inside cover and said, "That's £4.50 please." The man handed her the money and promptly walked away without the book. The girl saw him leave empty-handed but she didn't call out to him in any way. Why?

The old man was paying a fine for an overdue book in a library.
 

Jenny dropped an earring in her coffee yet the earring didn't get wet. How did this happen?

The earring was dropped in the coffee grounds.
 

It's so strong, it does not break,
It's so powerful, it penetrates a lake,
Sometimes it's weak as a twig left out in the sun,
It's so wonderful it gives us the power to have fun.
What is it?

Light.
 

There are 2 men who are hairdressers. They are the only ones in town. Everyone in town goes to them and never goes to hairdressers out of town. You decide to go to the hairdressers. The one on the left has a big bald patch in the middle of his head. The one on the right's hair is lovely and shiny with no hair out of place. So, which one do you choose, the one on the left, or the one on the right?

The one on the left, the hairdressers have to do each other's hair.