Brain Teasers
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Here are some easy ones...
#1
Five pieces of coal, a carrot, and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn, but there is a perfectly logical reason for them being there. What is it?
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#2
There were 2 Americans waiting at the entrance of a British museum. One of them was the father of the other one's son. How could this be so?
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#3
Not far from Madrid, there is a large wooden barn. The barn is completely empty except for a dead man hanging from the central rafter. The rope around his neck is 10 feet long and his feet are 5 feet off the ground. The nearest wall is 20 feet away. It is not possible to climb the walls to get to the rafters, so How did he manage it?
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#4
Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones are 2 businessmen who book into the same hotel for the night. They are given adjacent rooms on the third floor. During the night, Mr. Smith sleeps soundly. However, despite being very tired, Mr. Jones can't fall alseep. He eventually phones Mr. Smith and falls asleep immediately after hanging up. Why?
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#5
A London Cab driver picked up a lady who was a notorious chatterbox. He did not want to engage in conversation, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb, indicating this to her by pointing to his mouth and ears. After she alighted, he pointed to the meter so she could see how much she owed. She paid, him, walked off, and then realized that he could not have been a deaf mute. How did she know?
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#6
Mrs. Smith wanted a new house. She loved sunlight, so she asked the contractor to bulid her a 4-sided house where all 4 walls face south (towards the sunlight). After much thought, the contractor was able to do exactly that. How?
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#7
A man lies dead in a phone booth. The telephone handset is swinging, still connected to the other person. Two windows are broken. He was not murdered and he did not commit suicide. How did he die?
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#8
A man entered a house. There was no one else in the house. He walked to a room, stopped, then slowly raised his hands above his head. After a moment, he turned around, laughed, and left. Why?
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#9
A man lay shot to death in his own car. The doors were locked from the inside. The glass was not broken. No one else was in the car. How did he get shot?
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#10
Two men lay dead in a cabin in the snow. One was the other's father. The son was wearing a suit. The cabin contained only the men, a cigarette lighter, a horseshoe, and a flask of whiskey. No one murdered them, and they didn't kill each other. They also did not die of natural causes. How did they die?
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Alright...enough of the easy ones...These are pretty difficult:
#11
2 Grandmasters played 5 games of chess. Each won the same number of games and lost the same number of games. There were no draws. How could this be?
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#12
3 women dressed in bathing suits were standing together. Two were sad and one was happy. But the sad women were smiling and the happy one was crying. Why? ( -- I mean, besides the fact that women are typically that way, anyway.)
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#13
THE DREAM The boss of a storage warehouse had just arrived at work when one of the employees burst into the office. The man explained that while asleep the previous night, he dreamed that one of the stored boxes contained a bomb that would explode at 2 p.m., causing a terrible fire. The boss was skeptical, but agreed to investigate. After a search, a bomb was found in the area the man had explained in his dream. The police were called, the bomb defused, and tragedy was averted. Afterwards, the boss thanked the man wholeheartedly, and then fired him. The man did not plant the bomb, and his prophetic dream saved the warehouse from destruction. Yet, the manager was right to fire him. Why?
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#14
A man in a restaurant complained to the waiter that there was a fly in his coffee. The waiter took the cup away and promised to bring him a free cup of coffee. When the waiter returned, the man tasted the coffee and complained that it was the same cup of coffee with the fly removed. He was correct but how did he know?
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#15
A man stood looking through the window on the sixth floor of an office building. Suddenly, he was overcome by an impulse. He opened the window and lept through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. He did not have a parachute, or land on any special soft surface--in fact, he landed on granite. The man was completely unhurt when he landed. How could that be?
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These are fairly HARD.
#16
There are 2 glasses on the table, one containing water, the other, wine. They both contain exactly the same amount by volume. If you take a teaspoon of water and mix it into the wine and then take a teaspoon of wine and mix it with the water, both glasses become contaminated. But which one is more contaminated? Does the water now contain more wine than the wine does water, or the other way around?
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#17
A man stands in front of a painting and says the following: "Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man's father is my father's son." How is the man in the painting related to the man who is in front of it?
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#18
THE SINGLE QUESTION An explorer was captured by a tribe whose chief decided that the man should die. The chief was a very logical man and gave the explorer a choice: The explorer was to make a single statement. If it was true, he would be thrown over a high cliff. If it was false, he would be thrown to the lions. The explorer was afraid but managed to come up with a statement that was neither true nor false at the moment. The dumbfounded chief had to let him go and admired his intelligence. What did the explorer say that forced the chief to let him go?
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#19
The day before yesterday Freda was 17. Next year she will be 20. How can this be so?
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#20
A ship passed through the Panama Canal from west to east. That is to say, it entered the west end of the canal and left at the east end. However, immediately after it left the canal, it entered the Pacific Ocean. It did not double back through the canal, nor did it sail backward. How can this be so?
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#21
At a family reunion, it was found that the following relationships existed between the people present: Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, Uncle, Aunt, Brother, Sister, Cousin, Nephew, Neice. However, there were only four people there. How could this be so?
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#22
CROSSING THE DESERT Two trucks carry the same heavy loads across the desert. One is an older truck, with an older driver, Joe, who knows his way to the village that is their destination. The other truck is more modern, but its driver, Jim, who is also a modern guy, does not know the way. They agree that Jim should follow Joe, since he knows the way. Unfortunately, Jim has forgotten to gas up, so by the time he does this, the other truck is well out of sight. However, it has left very clear tracks in the sand, and Jim folows them.
After some time, the tracks start to become less and less clear. Eventually, they disappear altogether. This surprises Jim, because there is no wind to cover the tracks and his own tracks are still very clear. There is no sign of the other truck, but in due time a bedouin on a camel arrives, and, with his help, Jim gets to the village. There, he meets Joe and discovers the reason why the tracks disappeared. What was it?
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#23
Farmer Giles has four sheep. One day, he notices that they are standing in such a way, that they are all the same distance away from each other. That is to say, the distance between any two of the four sheep is the same. How can this be so?
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#24
A pet shop was advertising puppies for sale. Two men entered the shop. The first put $10 on the counter and asked for a puppy. The assistant asked if he would prefer a poodle, a Labrador, or an Alsatian. He chose the poodle. The second man also put $10 on the table and asked for a puppy. He simply gave the man an Alsatian puppy. How did he know that the man wanted this puppy?
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#25
On a busy afternoon, a man walked several miles across London from Westminster to Knightsbridge without seeing anybody or being seen by anyone. The day was clear and bright. He had perfect eyesight, and he looked where he was going. He did not travel by any method of transport other than by foot. London was thronged with people, yet no one saw him. How?
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