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Brain Teasers to Solve
In addition, Brainteasers are riddles that exercise your brain! Check out our cerebral collection of brain teasers for adults and kids of all ages. Nevertheless, think laterally and make Archimedes proud. Henceforth and get that feeling of satisfaction when you solve a cerebral riddle?
Riddle: You live in a one story house made entirely of redwood. What color would the stairs be?
Answer: What stairs? You live in a one-story house.
Riddle: A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
Answer: The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
Riddle: Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?
Answer: There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
Riddle: What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?
Answer: A die (dice).
Riddle: A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Answer: The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
Riddle: How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
Answer: Drop the "S".
Riddle: There are 20 people in an empty, square room. Each person has full sight of the entire room and everyone in it without turning his head or body, or moving in any way (other than the eyes). Where can you place an apple so that all but one person can see it?
Answer: Place the apple on one person's head.
Riddle: Always in you, Sometimes on you;
If I surround you, I can kill you.
What am I?
Answer: Water.
Riddle: How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
Answer: F I V E
Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV which is the Roman numeral for four.
Riddle: I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall. What am I?
Answer: A chick in an egg.
