Brain Teaser Final

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Brain Teasers

Can You Think Outside the Box?


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Question 1

Can You Make 100?

Remove 9 of the sticksand make 100.


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Answer

When you remove

the 9 sticks you form

the standard form of

the number 100.


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Can You Change the Point?

Move only 3 of the coins tomake the triangle point in an

upward direction.


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Can You Change the Point? Answer

Move the 2 quarters in the top corners

down 2 rows. Place the quarter on the

bottom point to the top to make a point.


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Can You Find 2 Ways to Make Four?

Find 2 ways that you canrearrange the sticks to

create four.


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Can You Find 2 Ways to Make Four? Answer

One solution is to create

the standard form of 4

and the other is to create

the roman numeral for 4.


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Can You Make the Rows, Columns,

and Diagonals Equal 15?

Arrange the numbers 1 through 9 in the

table so that the numbers in each row,

column, and diagonal adds up to 15.


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Row, Columns, and Diagonals

Equal 15 Answer

4 3 89 5 1

2 7 6


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Question 5

A murderer is condemned todeath. He has to choosebetween three rooms. Thefirst is full of raging fires, thesecond is full of assassins withloaded guns, and the third isfull of lions that haven't eaten

in 3 years.

Which room is safestfor him?


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Answer

The third.

Lions that haven'teaten in three years

are dead.


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Question 6

A woman shoots herhusband. Then she holds

him under water for over

5 minutes. Finally, shehangs him. But 5 minutes

later they both go out

together and enjoy a

wonderful dinner

together.

How can this be?


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Answer

The woman was a

photographer. She shot

a picture of

her husband,

developed it, and hung

it up to dry.


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Question 7

There are two plasticjugs filled with water.

How could you put all

of this water into abarrel, without using

the jugs or any

dividers, and still tell

which water came

from which jug?


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Answer

Freeze them first. Take

them out of the jugs

and put the ice in the

barrel. You will be

able to tell which water

came from which jug.


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Question 8

What is black when

you buy it, red when

you use it, and gray

when you throw it

away?


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Answer

The answer isCharcoal.


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Question 9

Can you name threeconsecutive days

without using the

words Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday, Friday,

Saturday, or Sunday?


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Answer

Sure you can:Yesterday, Today, and

Tomorrow!


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Question 10

What do you see?


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Answer

In black you can read the word

GOOD, in white the word

EVIL (inside each black letter

is a white letter).

It's all very physiological too,

because it visualizes theconcept that good can't exist

without evil (or the absence of

good is evil)


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Question 11

Now what do you see in it?


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Answer

You may not see it at first,

but the white spaces readthe word optical, the blue

landscape reads the word

illusion.


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Question 12

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every " F" in the

following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THERESULT OF YEARS OF

SCIENTIFIC STUDY

COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...


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Answer

The brain cannot process"OF".

FINISHED FILES ARE THE

RE SULT OF YEARS OFSCIENTI FIC STUDY

COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's"on the first go is a genius.

Three is normal, four is quite

rare.


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Question 13

What is it that goes up

and goes down

but does not move?


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Answer

The temperature


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Question 14

A steady stream of people enter

Mike's place of business

and remove its treasured

belongings. The people do notpay for what they take. Mike

allows them to take as much as

they can carry as long as they

keep their mouths shut. Whatare the people taking and

which type of business employs

Mike.


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Answer

The people are takingbooks and Mike works

for a Library.


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Question 15

I have four letters. Thefirst two stand for a boy.

The first three stand for

a girl. All of my lettersstand for brave boy.

What word am I?


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Answer

Hero


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Question 16

We were four, one wascut and we were five.

What are we?


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Answer

The answer is the Romannumeral IV. It stands for

4, and if the one (I) is

taken out, it becomesRoman numeral V,

which is five.


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Question 17

John's mother had fourchildren. The first was

April, the second was

May, the third was June.

What was the name of

her fourth child?


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Answer

John !


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Question 18

Using eight eights and

addition only, can you

make 1000?


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Answer

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.


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Question 19

What has six faces, Butdoes not wear

makeup. It also has

twenty-one eyes, Butcannot see?


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Answer

A dice


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Question 20

What seven-letter word

has hundreds of letters

in it?


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Answer

Mailbox


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Question 21

If you had a ton offeathers and a ton of

stones which would be

heavier?


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Answer

Neither. They bothweigh a ton. Both are

equal


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Question 22

A man is looking at apicture of a man on the

wall and states: Brothers

and sisters I have none,but this man's father is

my father's son. Who is

the man in the picture inrelation to the man

looking at the picture?


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Answer

The man in the picture ishis son. Since he doesn't

have any brothers or sisters,

the statement my father'sson is himself. A shortened

version would be this man's

father is myself, so he is the

father of the man in the

picture.


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Question 23

What number comes next?

2, 2, 4, 12, 48, ___


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Answer

240. To get the number,multiply the previous

number in the series by

its position. 48 is in the5th position, so 48 5 =

240


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Question 24

What does this

represent?

Pot OOOOOOOO


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Answer

Potatoes (Pot + 8 Os)


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Question 25

Three rooms contain,1) Gold coins, 2)

Currency notes and 3)

Cotton bags. If all

three rooms catch fire,

which room will theambulance pour water

on first?


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Answer

An ambulance doesn'tpour water.


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Question 26

Two boys weighing 50pounds each and their

older brother weighing

100 pounds wish tocross a river. Their boat

will only hold 100

pounds. How can theyall cross the river in the

boat?


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Answer

Two 50lb boys cross, onecomes back.

100lb boy crosses, other

50lb boy returnsBoth 50lb boys cross.


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Question 27

A man saw a snakecrossing the road and

swerved to crush it with

his tires. All the streetlights were off as well as

the car's headlights.

There were no otherlights on along the road.

How did the man see the

snake?


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Answer

It was during the daytime

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