Brain Teaser

[JAZZ]

Tom's mom had three children. The first was named May, the second was June. What was the third child’s name?

2. The manufacturer doesn't want to use it, the buyer doesn't need to use it and the user doesn't know he's using it. What is it?

3. The word CANDY can be spelled using just 2 letters. Can you figure out how?

4. Bill bets Craig $100 that he can predict the score of the hockey game before it starts. Craig agrees, but loses the bet. Why did Craig lose the bet?

5. What is the next 3 letters in this sequence?
o t t f f s s _ _ _

6. FOUR is HALF of FIVE.
Is this statement True or False?

7. What do these 3 have in common?
Superman
Moses
The Cabbage Patch Kids

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

9. I can sizzle like bacon,
I am made with an egg,
I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,
I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole,
I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,
What am I?

10. Hi! Ma and Pa told me I'd better say that all the two-letter words in this paragraph have something in common ...... or else! What's the common factor here?

11. What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls?

12. This one's a tuffy! There is a common English word that is seven letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a common English word - from seven letters right on down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing a letter at a time?

13. In olden days you are a clever thief charged with treason against the king and sentenced to death. But the king decides to be a little lenient and lets you choose your own way to die. What way should you choose? Remember, you're clever!

14. What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?

15. What six letter word in the English language contains ten other words without rearranging any of its letters?

16. Name an English word of more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with the letters "he" in that order. There are two possible answers. "hehe" is not acceptable.

17. A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: The Wife said she was sleeping. The Cook was cooking breakfast. The Gardener was picking vegetables.
The Maid was getting the mail. The Butler was cleaning the closet. The police instantly arrested the murdered. Who did it and how did they know?



Brain Teasers Answer Sheet


1. Tom.....Tom's mom had three children, June, May, and Tom.

2. A Coffin

3. The answer: C and Y

4. Bill said the score would be 0-0 and he was right. Before any hockey game
starts, the score is always 0-0.

5. "e n t " They represent the first letter when writing the numbers one
thru ten.

6. It's True. The Roman Numeral FOUR (IV) is in the middle of the word Five:
F(IV)E

7. They were all adopted!

8. The answer is Charcoal. In Homer Simpson's words: Hmmmm... Barbecue.

9. A snake.

10. All the two-letter combinations are abbreviations of U.S. States:
Hi:Hawaii, MA:Massachusetts, PA:Pennsylvania, me:Maine, in:Indiana, I'd:
Idaho, or:Oregon

11. Night and Day!

12. The original word is "Snowing". It decomposes to: sowing, swing, sing,
sin, in, and I.

13. I think I would have chosen to die of "old age". Did you?

14. The word Wholesome.

15.The word is Spared. The ten words are: Spa, Spar, Spare, Pa, Par, Pare,
Pared, Are, Re, and Red. If you got this one you are good!

16. Headache or Heartache.

17. It was the Maid. She said she was getting the mail. There is no mail on Sunday!


BEST OF LUCK


FAISAL

[samreen]

Brain Teaser


1. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
3. If you had only one match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and a woodburning stove, which would you light first?
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

6. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
7. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?
8. How far can a dog run into the woods?
9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
10. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add ten. What is the answer?

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
13. I have in my hand only 2 U.S. coins which total 55 cents in value. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?
14. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left?
15. Is it legal in California for a man to marry his widow's sister?

[I M Possible]

Answer 1: All months have 28 days

Answer 2: 12 AM

Answer 3: All can be burned wid a single match at a time.

Answer 4: Black bear.

Answer 5: Three.

Answer 6: yes, it is worldwide coz it is date in the calendar.

Answer 7: Pass

Answer 8: Pass

Answer 9: Pass

Answer 10: 70.

Answer 11: Pass

Answer 12: Vision.

Answer 13: Pass

Answer 14: 9.

Answer 15: Pass

[MuhammaD Zubair]

1:Feb month key 28 din hotey hain.or 4year baad Feb ka month 29 ka ho jata hai.es key bad phir 28 ka ho jata hai.baki sabh 30 or 31 key hotey hain.or aghar ap sirf din ka hisaab karain tu koi month 28 din ka nahi ho shakta koin key uss main ratain bhi shamil hotin hain.
2:eik hi waqat per dono ko dey ga.same time hoga.
3:hum 1 match sey sabh ko jala sahktey hain.
4:kesi house ki walls ka rukh eik taraf nahi ho sahkta.
5:three
6:yes they have.koin key pori dunyia main eik hi calendar hota hai.
7:sabh animals ki ark hoti hain..wesey es sawal ki samjh nahi ayi
8:woods main dog nahi bhaag sahkta..aghar bhaga bhi tu jitni us ki himat ho gi utna hi bhagey ga.
9:simple time pass howa tha jesey roz hota hai.
10:25
11:farmer key pass 2 field hain 3rd field nahi hai ..yani center field koi nahi.
12:vision
13:maloom nahi.
14:All but 9 died.. All died. koi nahi bachi sabh mar gayi hain.
15:maloom nahi

[MuhammaD Zubair]

As salam`o`Aleikum
main koch correction karna cahta hon.
3:hum sabh sey pahley match box jalaye gey.
15:California main man kesi ki widow's sister sey shadi kar sahkta hai.ess sawal main man kaha geya hai aghar brother hota tu wo apni saghi widow's sister sey shadi nahi kar sahkta.man shadi kar sahkta hai brother nahi.

[samreen]

1. All 12 have 28 days
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
3. Light the match first.
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.
6. Yes, and a 5th, a 6th, ...
7. I thought Noah brought 2 of each animal, not Moses
8. Halfway, then he would be running out of the woods.
9. The time/month/date/ year of an American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
10. 70
11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
12. The temperature.
13. A half-dollar and a nickel. (Only one was not a nickel)
14. 9 sheep
15. No. You can't marry someone if you're dead!

[Mariya]

Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.


There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
Here's the question: Who owns the fish?
Clues

1. The Brit lives in a red house
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. The green house is on the left of the white house
5. The green house owner drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.
try to solve.... I'll give you correct answer later

BEST OF LUCK

[Last Island]

Its the coffee drinking, Prince smoking German living in green house that owns a fish.

[Emoemar]

hey what was the quickest time anyone solved it in ??
i took about 40 minutes or so ... but thats cause i was drawing a lot !! relationship diagrams and all ..

[marwatone]

I couldn't, but my sister solved in about 20 minutes.