Over the years, I have collected hundreds of brain teasers.
Here are three examples:
Some months have 30 days, some have 31. How many have 28? All of them.
Divide 30 by one-half and add 10. What’s the total? 70
You are driving a city bus. At the first stop, four people get on. At the next step, two get off and seven get on. At the next stop, three get off and two get on. And at the next stop, five get off, and nine get on. What’s the name of the driver?
The answer to the last is located after these more challenging brain teasers, provided at the icebreakers.com website:
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Guess the next three letters in the series GTNTL.
A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not the boy’s father. Then who is the doctor?
I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
Joseph and Lena are found dead on the floor with some water around. The windows are open and a strong wind draft is blowing the curtains around. How did they die?
What has a mouth, but cannot eat; moves, but has no legs; and has a bank, but cannot put money in it?
A man wanted to encrypt his password but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. He had to use seven characters consisting of letters and numbers only (no symbols like ! or <). In order to remember it, he wrote down “You force heaven to be empty.” What is his password?
A man condemned to death has the option of picking one of the mentioned three rooms. The first room is a furnace filled with flames. The second has armed men with loaded guns, while the third has lions starving for years. Which one should the man choose?
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
A man wanted to work, but he could not log in to his computer terminal successfully. He tried twice, but still his password did not work. He suddenly remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So, he called his boss and said, “Hey boss, my password is out of date.”
His boss replied, “Yes, that’s right. The password is different. Listen carefully. I am sure, you can figure out the new one. The new one has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same.””Thanks boss.”With that, the man could correctly log into his station. What are both the new and old passwords?
The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number. What is so special about it?
A man is headed to a mountain along with a lion, a goat, and a basket of vegetables. On the way, he needs to cross a river and the boat can only carry two things at a time. If he takes the vegetables, the lion will eat the goat. If he takes the lion, the goat will eat the vegetables. How does he cross the river?
Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
“You’re driving a city bus….”
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