WorksheetsBrain Teasers
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 53mins
You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
(a)
How can you go 10 days without sleep?
(a)
You are in a dark room with a box of matches. Nearby are three things: a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood. Which do you light first?
(a)
If there are three apples and you take two, how many do you have?
(a)
What can go through glass without breaking it?
(a)
A girl buys a dozen eggs and, on the way home, all but seven break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
(a)
I’m a god, a planet, and I measure heat. What am I?
(a)
A seed with three letters in my name. Take away two and I still sound the same. What am I?
(a)
I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
(a)
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
(a)
The more you take away, the more I become. What am I?
(a)
Two in a corner, 1 in a room, 0 in a house, but 1 in a shelter. What am I?
(a)
I sound like one letter but I’m written with three. I show you things when you look through me. What am I?
(a)
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
(a)
David’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and (a) ?
What number belongs in the box on the top of the pyramid? (Hint: There is a pattern within the blocks. Hint: you will need a calculator)
816
72, 576
2, 592
540
What is the value of the circle?
3
7
10
14
A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?
North
Down
When did roosters lay eggs?
It didn’t roll because the egg is cube shaped
How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide?
One grain of dirt
6kg
More than 10kg
None. How is there dirt in a hole?...
How many months have 28 days?
February
All of them
None of them
What about leap years?
A clerk at a butcher is 161.8cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Meat
161.8 pounds
88 kg
13 tons
If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what will it become?
It’s still a red stone
A blue stone
Wet
A purple stone
There are 10 lit candles on a cake and you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?
All 10
3
7
Can I eat the cake?
Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape?
Stop imagining!
Stop, drop, and roll
Feel your way around
Call for help
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
food
fire
water
What is the answer?
65
55
35
45
78
18
89
87
Crossroads
Two roads
Two white roads
Roads & roads
45
47
49
51
Hat is to head like socks is to (a)
Billy’s mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named?
(a)
You are in a 1- story house. Your bed is pink. Your bathroom is pink. Your kitchen is pink. What color is your stairs?
Blue
Red
There is no stairs
Pink
I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I ?
A candle
A child
A tree
How many blocks?
7
8
9
19
I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
A map
The world
Not possible
Don't know
Fill in the gap:
A(n)…………. a day keeps the doctor away.
apple
aspirin
pizza
orange
What kind of dog never bites?
barking dog
poodle
baby dog
hot dog
I have many teeth but I can not bite..
comb
crocodile
cow
knife
A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first?
monkey
squirrel
bird
none of them
2
4
6
8
Using only addition, how do you add eight 8's and get the number 1000 ?
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8
88 + 88+ 88+ 88+ 88+ 88+ 88+ 88+
88 + 888 + 88
How many squares are there?
9
10
14
18
What comes next in this pattern: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ?
15
17
19
21
Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What’s the answer?
25
35
70
80
1
5
3
7
What month do people sleep the least
December
they are all the same
January
February
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
A spider
A clock
A tree
A bear
What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps has a mouth but never eats?
A whisper
A sleepwalker
A fox
A river
I'm full of keys, but I can't open any doors. What am I?
A notebook
A piano
A book
A box
What occurs twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a day?
The sunrise
A fortnight
The letter E
A birthday
