Brain Teaser 6/29/2013

Picture an empty wine bottle with a cork secured at the top in the usual way. Inside the bottle a metal ring hangs suspended by a string. How is it possible to make the metal ring drop to the bottom of the bottle without touching the ring, the thread, the cork, or the bottle while leaving the cork in place and intact?
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/28/2013

These words belong to the same logical family:
CALCIFEROUS CUPELLATION EDUCATION LACTIFEROUS OUTDISTANCE PNEUMONIA

Which of these words does too?
ZYMOTICALLY ABSTEMIOUS UNAPOSTOLIC MEDALLION
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/27/2013

What number fits in all of these words/phrases?

Deck
Year
Vietnam
Desert Storm
Singing in the Rain
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/26/2013

Can you make this sentence into a phrase by only adding punctuation? You may not add, subtract, or rearrange the words.
that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
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Brain Teaser 6/25/2013

Two easy one's today!

1. Double my number, I'm less than a score, half of my number is less than four. Add one to my double when bakers are near, days of the week are still greater, I fear. What am I?

2. Continue this pattern: 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, ?
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Brain Teaser 6/24/2013

What do the following words have in common?
FAST
STRIKE
BILL
QUANTUM
SANCTION
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/22/2013

Can you find 13 animals hidden in these words?

Pheasantoadderaturtleechareelionewtiger

Solution

Brain Teaser 6/14/2013

Three friends went out for drinks. The waiter brought them a check for $30, so each one of them paid $10. When the waiter took the cash, he realized he had made a mistake, and the check was for $25 instead. When he gave their change back, each friend got a dollar and they left the remaining two dollars as a tip. Therefore, each customer paid $9; multiplied by 3 this equals $27; plus $2 for the tip equals $29. Where is the remaining dollar?
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Brain Teaser 6/13/2013

1. Rhonda will go see ballet but not opera. Her favorite number is eight and she doesn’t like nine. She likes salmon but not trout. She hates Mondays but likes Wednesdays. Does she use a comb or a brush?

2. Andy likes orange but not purple. He likes torches but not chandeliers. He eats berries but not fruits. Following the same rules, does he like Byron or Keats?
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/12/2013

Patty doesn't feel she is really a child anymore. Ten years ago, her mother was five times her age. Now she is three­sevenths of her mother's age, and in five years she will be half her mother's age. How old will she be when she is half her mother's age?
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/11/2013

1. There is one in a minute and two in a moment, but only one in a million years. What is it?

2. What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

3. How can you make 30 cents with only two USA coins if one of the coins is not a nickel?

4. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/10/2013

Alice is walking thought the forest of forgetfulness. She wants to know what day of the week it is. She stops and asks a lion and a unicorn. Now the lion lies all of the time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The unicorn always lies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Alice asks the lion what day it is, he says, "Well yesterday was one of my lying days." Well Alice cant figure it out just from the Lions answer so she asks the unicorn and the unicorn says, "Yesterday was also one of my lying days."
What day is it?
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/8/2013

The following puzzle consists of a proverb with all its vowels removed. The remaining letters have been broken into groups of four. Put back the vowels to find the proverb.
FLND   HSMN   YRSN   PRTD.
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/7/2013

What are the largest and smallest 5-digit numbers that satisfy the following conditions?

A. Each digit of the number is a prime digit.
B. Each successive pair of digits forms a 2-digit number that is NOT a prime number.
C. Each of the prime digits must appear at least once in the 5-digit number.
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/6/2013

1. What number is missing from this series?
2 3 5 7 13 17

2. What's the pattern to these numbers? 
8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0

3. 8998971798998
What is so special about this set of numbers, aside from the fact that it is a palindrome?
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/5/2013

1. There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. How many ducks are there?

2. Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
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Brain Teaser 6/4/2013

1. A man is asked what his daughters look like. He answers, "They are all blondes, but two, all brunettes, but two, and all redheads, but two." How many daughters did he have?

2. Which is more, seconds in 100 hours or inches in 100 yards?

3. Why are 1980 pennies worth more than 1979 pennies?
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Brain Teaser 6/3/2013

The same five letters can be anagrammed into four different words to fill in the blanks in the sentence to make (some­what) good sense. What are missing words?
The farmer with hundreds of _ _ _ _ _, deeply _ _ _ _ _ about the amount of rainfall, and _ _ _ _ _ around with artificial watering systems when the ground is dry enough to _ _ _ _ _ him about the possibility of crop failure.
Solution

Brain Teaser 6/1/2013

Robert and David were preparing to have a water balloon fight. "No Fair" cried Robert, "You have 3 times as many as I do!" David said "Fine!" and gave Robert 10 more balloons. "Still not fair!" argued Robert, "You still have twice as many as I do." How many more balloons must David give Robert for them to have the same number?
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