Brain teasers and logic puzzles are known to improve short-term memory loss? Testing your knowledge bank with brain teasers and other types of riddles keeps the connections between your brain cells firing. Additionally, when we learn how to solve brain teasers, we improve our ability to focus too! So to kick start the year ahead with our minds sharp and prepared, try these Top 10 Brain Teasers to Get You into Gear for 2022.
Brain Teasers Questions
1. On my way to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, and each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going to St. Ives? 2. Which is heavier? A kilo of feathers or a kilo of rocks? 3. You are a cyclist in a cross-country race. Just before the crossing finish line, you overtake the person in second place. What place did you finish in? 4. A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph? 5. How much dirt is there in a hole that is 1m deep, and 80cm in diameter?
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6. There are three houses. One’s red, one’s blue, and one’s white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where is the white house? 7. You’re in a cabin and it’s pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first: the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire? 8. A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells its owner he’s bankrupt. Why? 9. A man left home running. He ran a short way and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they? 10. What is special about these words: job, polish, herb?
Brain Teasers Answers
1. One! Only I was going to St. Ives 2. Both weigh exactly one pound! 3. Second. If you pass the person in second, you take second, and they take third. 4. His son. 5. None, because a hole and contains no dirt. 6. In Washington DC. 7. You light the match first. 8. Because he’s playing Monopoly. 9. The catcher and the umpire. 10. They are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized.
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