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BRAIN TEASERS

BRAIN TEASERS. DAYS OF THE WEEK. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday?. ANSWER. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. MURDER MYSTERY.

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BRAIN TEASERS

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  1. BRAIN TEASERS

  2. DAYS OF THE WEEK Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday?

  3. ANSWER Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

  4. MURDER MYSTERY A rich and handsome man was murdered on a Sunday afternoon. At the time of the murder there was: the maid, the cook, the butler, the gardener and the wife. Maid: I was fixing the table Cook: I was cooking breakfast Butler: I was polishing the silverware and dishes Gardener: I was planting tomato seeds Wife: I was reading a book. Who did it?

  5. ANSWER The cook. You don’t cook breakfast in the afternoon

  6. The plane crash There was a plane crash just north of the Pacific Ocean. There were 24 people on the plane; 8 of them were found just a little northwest of the ocean. In which direction do they bury the survivors?

  7. ANSWER They don’t bury SURVIVORS

  8. VERY COLD So you are walking outside through the ice-cold snow. You have nowhere to live but you come to this little cabin. You have a stove, a fireplace and a candle. You only have one match, which one do you light first?

  9. ANSWER You light the match first

  10. MORE LIKE YOU I am as small as an ant, as big as a whale. I will approach like a breeze but can come like a gale. By some I get hit but all have shown fear. I will dance to the music I can’t hear. Of names I have many, of names I have one. I am as slow as a snail but from me you can’t run. What am I?

  11. ANSWER I am a shadow

  12. HARDWARE STORE A woman goes into a hardware store to buy something for her house. When asked the price, the clerk replies, “ The price of one is twelve cents, the price of forty-four is twenty-four cents, and the price of a hundred and forty-four is thirty-six cents. What does the woman want to buy?

  13. ANSWER House numbers

  14. ANCIENT INVENTION There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that allows people to see through walls. What is it?

  15. ANSWER A window

  16. P and e What starts with “P” and ends with “E” and has more than 1000 letters?

  17. answer Post Office

  18. Puzzle 1 Here we have an olive (looking strangely like a dime) in a martini glass. Move two matches, to redraw the martini glass so the olive is outside the glass.

  19. ANSWER Here is the solution, moving the horizontal matchstick, and the one on the far right. Of course you remove the olive by turning the glass upside down.

  20. PUZZLE 2 Start with this grid of 12 matchsticks, remove two of them so that there are only two squares left.

  21. ANSWER This would have been even simpler, if I had mentioned that the starting diagram showed five squares.

  22. PUZZLE 3 Move three matchsticks, and make the fish turn around and swim the other direction.

  23. ANSWER Move the faint matches in this diagram.

  24. HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU SEE?

  25. HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU SEE?

  26. HOW MANY FACES?

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