Love brain teasers? Then try to solve these riddles on your own and then finally at the solution given to compare them. Let you give it your best shot.
1. A woman shoots her husband, holds him under water for over 6 minutes and hangs him. After sometime, they both go out for dinner? How can this be?
2. When you need, it you throw it away, when you don't need it, you take it in.
3. Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match.
4. If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?
5. What kind of tables have no legs?
6. What is the first thing you do every morning?
7. A brick weighs a pound-and- half a brick. How many pounds do two bricks weigh?
8. How long is a rope that is 2 yards shorter than another rope that is three times the length of the first
rope?
9. What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will eventually die?
10. As long as I eat, 1 live. When 1 drink, I die.
11. Can you think of a common word that contains double C, double S and double L? Can you think of a second one?
12. What number comes next in the following sequence ? 2 4 6 8 10 20 _
13. Without it I am dead. If I am not, then I am behind. What an I?
14. If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
15. You are in a place called Jack's World and there is only one law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but no sausage. What is the law?
Solutions to the Brain Teasers given above:
1) The women was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
2) A ship's anchor.
3) She could possibly take out 6 black left hand gloves and then 6 brown left hand gloves, the next one would have to be either the right hand or left hand match.
5) Timetable and Multiplication Table.
6) Wake up.
7) 2 bricks weigh 2 lbs and a whole brick, therefore 2 bricks weigh 4 lbs.
8) If the length of the rope + 2 yards = 3 times the length of the rope, then the rope is 1 yard long.
9) The word "Nothing".
10) Fire.
11) Successfully. Unsuccessfully.
12) 22 (the sequence alternates +2, x2).
13) Ahead
14) 120 (100 threes in the hundreds place 10 threes in the tens place + 10 threes in the ones place).
15) Everything (each word) in Jack‘s World must contain double letters.
1. A woman shoots her husband, holds him under water for over 6 minutes and hangs him. After sometime, they both go out for dinner? How can this be?
2. When you need, it you throw it away, when you don't need it, you take it in.
3. Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match.
4. If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?
5. What kind of tables have no legs?
6. What is the first thing you do every morning?
7. A brick weighs a pound-and- half a brick. How many pounds do two bricks weigh?
8. How long is a rope that is 2 yards shorter than another rope that is three times the length of the first
rope?
9. What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will eventually die?
10. As long as I eat, 1 live. When 1 drink, I die.
11. Can you think of a common word that contains double C, double S and double L? Can you think of a second one?
12. What number comes next in the following sequence ? 2 4 6 8 10 20 _
13. Without it I am dead. If I am not, then I am behind. What an I?
14. If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?
15. You are in a place called Jack's World and there is only one law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but no sausage. What is the law?
Solutions to the Brain Teasers given above:
1) The women was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
2) A ship's anchor.
3) She could possibly take out 6 black left hand gloves and then 6 brown left hand gloves, the next one would have to be either the right hand or left hand match.
5) Timetable and Multiplication Table.
6) Wake up.
7) 2 bricks weigh 2 lbs and a whole brick, therefore 2 bricks weigh 4 lbs.
8) If the length of the rope + 2 yards = 3 times the length of the rope, then the rope is 1 yard long.
9) The word "Nothing".
10) Fire.
11) Successfully. Unsuccessfully.
12) 22 (the sequence alternates +2, x2).
13) Ahead
14) 120 (100 threes in the hundreds place 10 threes in the tens place + 10 threes in the ones place).
15) Everything (each word) in Jack‘s World must contain double letters.
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