Brain Teasers
Riddle: A group of privates were standing in the blistering sun facing due west. Their sergeant shouted at them: Right turn! About turn! Left turn! In which direction are they now facing?
Answer: East.
Riddle: You are stuck in a room. On the door is a keypad with all the letters of the alphabet and the enter button. The word is 7 letters long. To your left, is a table with a note. The note reads: Sulfer Carbon Iodine Einsteinium Nitrogen Cerium On the other side of the room is a billboard. On the billboard there is a note pinned to it. On this note, it says: After solving the note upon the table, remove a letter and you will be free." What is the code to escape?
Answer: The code is “science” After solving for the first note, you will get “sciesnce.” If you don’t understand why, go to the Periodic Table of the Elements and find these elements there. From the second note, you remove the ‘s’ which leaves you with ‘science’ I came up with this my self when I was looking at the periodic table. Thank you for reading my Escape Room.
Riddle: Why is your nose not 12 inches long?
Answer: Because it would then be a foot.
Riddle: Many years ago, a group of friends and I were hiking through a dense forest near my home, when one of the group stopped and made a suggestion to everyone. Just as the last words left his mouth, we all scattered, and for the very first time, I saw It! It was bigger than most of us, and It was fast -- too fast for my friends, unfortunately. As I ran to try to hide from It, I heard the screams of my comrads behind me. It quickly closed in on them, eventually rendering each of them motionless, and helpless -- and at Its mercy! As I was hiding myself from It, I saw It grab and totally immobilize three more of my closest friends. It was relentless in Its pursuit. My heart raced within my chest as It approached my hiding place. I realized I was the last survivor, but was overmatched by Its speed and power. As It grabbed me, It growled three words at me!!! What were those three words?
Answer: The three words were, “Tag, you’re It!” We stopped on our hike to play a game of Freeze Tag, and since I was the last one caught, my turn to be It was due.
Riddle: Did you know that if you live within 5 miles of a cemetery you can't be buried there? Why?
Answer: If you're living you can't be buried!
Riddle: Which word is the odd one out: First Second Third Forth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth?
Answer: Forth. It is incorrectly spelled.
Riddle: What is that which every living person has seen, but will never see again?
Answer: Yesterday.
Riddle: A man and his wife were doing missionary work near the city of Nairobi in the country of Kenya in eastern Africa. Their housing had not yet been completed, so the man, the woman, and their six year old daughter were spending a few nights in the jungle in three small pup tents. During their third night there, the woman was awakened by the call of a hyena passing by, so she got out of her tent to see if her young daughter had been frightened by the noise. As she peered into her daughter's tent she was surprised to see the dark figures of lion, a panther, and a cheetah which were curled up next to her daughter. Seeing her daughter was asleep and unharmed, the woman slowly and quietly withdrew from the tent, and simply returned to her own tent and went back to bed. How could this child's mother leave her daughter in such a dangerous situation, and simply ignore what she had just witnessed without intervening in some way? How can such emotional coldness ever be explained; or is there something here we are missing?
Answer: The woman was surprised to see that her daughter had talked her father into allowing her to bring her three favorite stuffed animals on the trip with her (the lion, the panther, and the cheetah).
Riddle: What is both possible and impossible at the same time?
Answer: Impossibility.
Riddle: Four people are sitting around a campfire after a long day of recreation when one man comments: "Do you realize that around this campfire, the four of us include a mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle and a couple of cousins"?. If everyone is related by blood (with no unusual marriages) how is this possible?
Answer: The campfire circle includes a woman and her brother. The woman's daughter and the man's son are also present.
Riddle: A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law. How come?
Answer: She was walking.
Riddle: What's light as a feather and a few days after becomes hard as rock?
Answer: Snow.
Riddle: What can be put in a cup, but never be taken out?
Answer: A crack.
Riddle: What can bring back the dead; make us cry, make us laugh, make us young; born in an instant yet lasts a lifetime?
Answer: Memories.
Riddle: Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
Answer: Brad was so sick and tired of window washing, he opened the window and jumped inside.
Riddle: A man is late for an appointment and, in his haste, takes a corner so fast that only two wheels were on the pavement. A policeman is standing on the corner, but he did not give him a ticket. Why?
Answer: He was on a motorcycle.
Riddle: My first is in ocean but never in sea, my second's in wasp but never in bee. My third is in glider and also in flight, my whole is a creature that comes out at night. What am I?
Answer: An Owl.
Riddle: I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be?
Answer: The word "few". Add "er" and it becomes fewer.
Riddle: A structure with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three. Break the walls, eat the borders, then throw away me. What am I?
Answer: A peanut.
Riddle: It's Thanksgiving, and your mom has enlisted your help in making dessert. She has settled on pie, so the two of you get to work. You turn your back for one second before realizing a pie is missing from the lineup. There were 2 apples, 1 cherry, 1 pumpkin, and 1 blueberry. Unfortunately, the blueberry one is missing. You decide to go question your siblings and find out who knows something. They all claimed to be in their rooms at the time of the baking. You: Okay, who took it? We had 5 pies ready for the feast when everyone gets here and now we're down to 4. Do any of you know where the missing pie went? Wendy: What?! You're accusing me? I bet you ate it. You probably couldn't resist and are trying to frame us again! Damien: I don't know, check in Wally's room? You know how much he likes blueberry and apple pie, right? Tess: I'm allergic to blueberry, you know that! Mom had to warn me so I wouldn't eat it when the time came! Wally: Come on, I may like pie, but do you really think I would sneak behind Mommy's back and eat it? It's pretty clear to you who ate the pie. You tell your mom what they said and she gathered them all into the living room. "Okay," she said to you, "on the count of three, point to who you think did it. I'll do it too. One - two - three!" You and your mom point to the same person... who did you point to?
Answer: Damien. You may think it's Tess, but she would know about the flavor because your mom told her. But how would Damien know about it?