Life
Can you answer them all?
Theres something oddly satisfying about solving a brain teaser.
Studies even show that challenging your brain with puzzles can improve problem-solving skills and boost memory.
(So yes, technically, youaregetting smarter as you play.)
Ready to put your brain to the test?
Grab a pen, challenge your friends, and see how many you could solve.
Easy Brain Teasers
What has to be broken before you could use it?
Im tall when Im young, and Im short when Im old.
The more of me you take, the more you leave behind.
I have hands but no arms, a face but no eyes.
Forward I am heavy, but backward Im not.
A ton not backward.
30, because n2 + n where n = 1, 2, 3…
If twos company and threes a crowd, what are four and five?
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 run away.
How many are left?
I add five to nine and get two.
How is this possible?
The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball.
How much is the ball?
5 cents, not 10!
A grandfather, two fathers, and two sons go fishing.
They catch three fish.
How is this possible?
Its three generations: grandfather, father, son.
You have a 5-liter jug and a 3-liter jug.
How do you measure exactly 4 liters?
I am a word of letters three, add two and fewer you’ll see.
(Adding er makes it fewer.)
What has many keys but cant open a single lock?
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
What word looks the same upside down and backward?
I start with P, end with E, and have thousands of letters inside.
I am a word.
I contain six letters, but if you take one away, twelve remains.
What can go up a chimney down but cant go down a chimney up?
What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
The letter e.
What has an end but no beginning?
A road, a stick, a story.
Classic Brain Teasers
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears.
The person who makes it, sells it.
The person who buys it never uses it.
The more you remove from me, the bigger I get.
What goes up but never comes down?
What has one eye but cant see?
Animal Brain Teasers
A rooster lays an egg on a roof.
Which way does it roll?
Roosters dont lay eggs.
What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three in the evening?
A human baby crawls, adult walks, old person with a cane.
What has legs but doesnt walk?
If a dog had five legs, how many legs would it actually have?
Still four; calling a tail a leg doesnt make it one.
How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
None, Noah did.
Lateral Thinking Brain Teasers
A man pushes his car to a hotel and immediately realizes hes bankrupt.
If you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor, will it crack?
No, concrete is hard to crack!
How can you make six into an odd number?
Remove the s ix = 9.
A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays three days, and leaves on Friday.
His horses name is Friday.
What can travel around the world while staying in the same spot?
A woman shoots her husband, holds him underwater for five minutes, then hangs him.
Yet they go out for dinner.
She took a photo and developed it.
How far can a dog run into the woods?
Halfway, after that its running out.
Whats the next letter in the sequence?
O, T, T, F, F, S, S, __?
E first letter of numbers: one, two, three…eight.
I can be cracked, made, told, and played.
Theres a one-story house where everything inside is pink.
The walls, the furniture, even the cat.
What color are the stairs?
There are no stairs its a one-story house.
J for July months of the year.
What is the next number?
1, 3, 6, 10, 15, __?
21 adding consecutive numbers: +2, +3, +4, +5…
If you rearrange the letters of new door, what word do you get?
A mother is 21 years older than her child.
In 6 years, she will be five times the childs age.
How old is the child now?
The child is 3, the mother is 24.
If you multiply me by any number, the answer will always be the same.
Mystery & Detective Brain Teasers
A man was found murdered on a Sunday morning.
The maid no mail on Sundays.
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other.
The man calls the dog, and it crosses without getting wet.
The river is frozen.
A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder but wasnt hurt.
She fell off the bottom rung.
A truck driver is going the wrong way down a one-way street.
Why isnt he stopped?
The letter M.
What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
What has a neck but no head?
What gets wetter the more it dries?
If you throw a blue stone into the Red Sea, what happens?
What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
You see a boat filled with people, but there isnt a single person on board.
What is full of holes but still holds water?
What has a bottom at the top?
The more you share me, the less you have.
What has ears but cant hear?
What has roots but never grows?
The more you stretch me, the thinner I get.
What begins and ends with T and has T in it?
What comes down but never goes up?
I have keys but open no locks.
I have space but no room.
you’re free to enter, but you cant go outside.
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees.
What has a head and a tail but no body?
What is as light as a feather but even the worlds strongest man cant hold it for long?
If you have me, you want to share me.
If you share me, you dont have me.
A woman looks at a painting and says, Brothers and sisters, I have none.
But that mans father is my fathers son.
Who is in the painting?
There are three light bulbs in one room and three switches in another.
you might only go into the bulb room once.
How do you know which switch controls which bulb?
I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water.
I disappear when you say my name.
You walk into a dark room.
You have a match and see a candle, a gas lamp, and a fireplace.
What do you light first?
