MENTAL GAMES FOR THE YOUNG

# 1 A person looking at a photo says : “Brothers and Sisters have I none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” What is the relationship between the person on the photo and the speaker?

Answer to # 1 The Photo is of himself.

# 2 Riddle There are some who sell this and some who buy this. Those who buy this don’t use it for themselves; those who use this don’t know. What is this thing?

Answer to # 2 Coffin

# 3 How are you going to eat a hard-boiled egg if you are not allowed to break the egg shell?

Answer to # 3 Ask somebody else to break it!

# 4 Puzzle A middle-aged lady knocked at the door of a house occupied by an old lady by the name of Madam Ruth Zoeski. Ruth Zoeski was a widow. When the old lady opened her front door, she was greeted by “Good morning, Madam Ruth Zoeski.” Now, the middle-aged lady was new to this area; she had never met the old lady before. Neither had she heard of this old lady or her name. How did she know the old lady’s name?

Answer to # 4 The middle-aged woman was a new post woman delivering a letter addressed to Madam Ruth Zoeski.

# 5 Riddle ‘ Eat, eat. Spit out, spit out. It’s wet on entering, but dry when it’s spitted out.’ What is the Action that fits the above?

Answer to # 5 Eating sugar cane.

# 6 Lateral Thinking Every morning I have eggs for breakfast. I own no chickens and I never buy eggs or get them from anyone else’s chickens. Where do I get my eggs?

Answer to # 6 From my Ducks!

# 7 Riddle I have a bed but never sleep. I have a mouth but never eat. I do not have feet but yet keep moving. What am I?

Answer to # 7 A River

# 8 Riddle It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones and blood all at the same time. What is it?

Answer to # 8 A Ring

# 9 Riddle ‘ There is a pond with white stones along the sides. At the center of the pond is a crocodile.’ What is this thing?

Answer to # 9 Mouth

# 10 Riddle There is a green round house. Inside the green round house is a smaller white house. In the white house is a red house. And living in the red house are lots of little black babies. What is it?

A watermelon Answer to # 10

# 11 Riddle When I am clean, I am black. When I am dirty, I am white. What am I?

Answer to # 11 A Blackboard

# 12 A Puzzle A man was lying dead, face down in the desert wearing a backpack. He did not die of thirst and he was not killed by somebody. Can you suggest an explanation?

Answer to # 12 He jumped out of an airplane, but his parachute failed to open.

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