Brain teasers

1. BRAIN TEASERS

2. RULE
Think outside the box.

3. How do you spell candy
with just two letters?

4. Answer
c and y

5. How can 5 minus
2 equal 4?

6. Answer
IV
FIVE take away two letters F and
E which leaves IV which is 4 in
Roman Numerals.

7. If the word MOM becomes
WOW when you turn it
upside down, what do
you get when you spell it
backwards?
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8. Answer
ti
When you spell the
word “it” backwards it
becomes “ti”

9. How many numbers are
there on a dice?

10. Answer
none
There are only dots on a dice.

11. A cat has three kittens:
Daisy, Kittie and Gracie.
What is the mother's
name.

12. Answer
What
It was a statement not a question.
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13. What is in the center of
Paris that can't be found
in Washington or London?

14. Answer
R
The center of paRis is R.

15. What happened on the
31st of June 1945?

16. Answer
Nothing
There are only 30 days in June.

17. If you throw a white hat
with a blue ribbon into the
Red Sea what does it
become?

18. Answer
wet!

19. How do you spell "hard
water" using only 3
letters?

20. Answer

21. S E Q U E N C _
What letter is needed to
complete the word?

22. Answer
F
Place an F on the _ to form an E.

23. The chicken or the egg?
Which came first?
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24. Answer
chicken
It came first in the question.

25. What can you catch but
cannot throw?

26. Answer
A cold.

27. Which is correct:
Six and six IS eleven or
six and six ARE eleven?

28. Answer
Neither – Six and Six is twelve.

29. What does this word mean?
CITY

30. Answer
capital city

31. What is one word in
English that is always
pronounced incorrectly?

32. Answer
incorrectly

33. A carrot tree grows 1.5
inches every day. How
many days will it take to
grow 150 inches?

34. Answer
Carrots don’t grow on trees!

35. What one word contains
the most letters?

36. Answer
ALPHABET

37. There 10 horses, but only
9 stables.
• You can’t make another stable
• You can’t put 2 horses in one stable
These are the stables:
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38. How can you solve this
problem?

39. Answer
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