Brain Teasers--Answers
#1. A snowman melted
#2. They were husband and wife
#3. He stood on a block of ice
#4 Mr. Smith snores loudly
#5 The cab driver had heard her directions to her destination perfectly, else he wouldn't have been able to get there.
#6 He built it on the North Pole
#7 He was describing a fish he caught, while on the phone. He thrusted his hands to the side, breaking the glass, and slitting his wrists.
#8 He was a criminal. The house was his own. His pet parrot repeated the phrase: "put your hands above your head", as he had heard a policeman say before.
#9 His car was a convertible
#10 ...Kids, don't smoke. Don't think that a horseshoe, or a rabbit's foot will bring you good luck. And don't drink whiskey while flying a plane. (It was an airplane cabin)
#11 They played 2 different people
#12 They were in a beauty pagent
#13 He was sleeping on the job
#14 The coffee was cold
#15 The man was Superman....just kidding. He was a window washer. He jumped into the buliding.
#16 The wine is more contaminated since it was contaminated first. The diluted wine (mostly wine and some water) is then used to contaminate the water, which now contains slightly less than 1 teaspoon of wine.
#17 It is a portrait of himself
#18 "I will be thrown to the lions."
#19 Freda's birthday was yesterday, December 31. Since the day before yesterday she was only 17, then today she is 18 and will be 19 this year. Next year she will be 20.
#20 This, once again, is a problem of perception. We assume that the ship was facing North, but in this case it was sailing South, in the Carribean. Upon entering the canal, it entered from the west end, from the ship's perspective, and left through the east end into the Pacific.
#21 A man and woman are brother and sister. The man has a daughter and the woman has a son.
#22 They were both hauling sand. Joe's truck, the older one, had a slow leak.
#23 The sheep are standing on the four corner points of an equal-sided pyramid (a tetrahedron). Or to put it another way, three are on the points of an equilateral triangle and the other is on a mound of earth in the center.
#24 The first man put down a $10 bill but wanted the cheaper puppy which was the poodle, the second put down $10 in coins so it was assumed he wanted the $10 puppy which was the shepherd.
#25 He was walking through the sewers below the streets.