Ten Brain Teasers
These are some brain teasers that tease your brain! Enjoy!
1. What English word contains all the vowels in alphabetical order?
2. You have an empty three-liter bottle and an empty five-liter bottle. How can you measure exactly one liter of milk without wasting any milk?
3. How many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen?
4. Make one word from the following letters: o r e n o d w
5. Find three errors in this sentence: Their are three erors in this sentence.
6. How many outs are there in an inning?
7. A clerk in the butcher shop is 6’ 2” tall. What does he weigh?
8. A sundial is the type of timepiece that has the fewest moving parts. What type of timepiece has the most moving parts?
9. Peter’s mother has four children. Their names are: North, East and West. What is the fourth child’s name?
10. Name six English five-letter word that also make an English word when a letter is placed in front of the word.
Ready for the answers?
1. facetious
2. Fill the three-liter bottle with milk, then pour the three liters of milk into the five-liter bottle. Now again fill the three-liter bottle with milk and pour the milk in the three-liter bottle into the five-liter bottle until you fill it.
3. 12 stamps
You may have multiplied 2 x 12 to get 24. But a dozen stamps means 12 stamps no matter how much each stamp is worth.
4. one word
5. Their = There, erors = errors, and three has to become a two because there are only two errors.
6. 6
You may have thought the answer was “three outs”. But there are two teams that play in an inning. So there are six outs.
7. The butcher weighs meat!
8. An hourglass
9. The fourth child’s name is Peter. If you are not sure why, read the question again carefully.
10. please, ground, around, knight, fright, danger
Andrew (Source: Gary R. Gauber, PHD’s “The World’s 200 Hardest Brain Teasers” and Himself)
These are some brain teasers that tease your brain! Enjoy!
1. What English word contains all the vowels in alphabetical order?
2. You have an empty three-liter bottle and an empty five-liter bottle. How can you measure exactly one liter of milk without wasting any milk?
3. How many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen?
4. Make one word from the following letters: o r e n o d w
5. Find three errors in this sentence: Their are three erors in this sentence.
6. How many outs are there in an inning?
7. A clerk in the butcher shop is 6’ 2” tall. What does he weigh?
8. A sundial is the type of timepiece that has the fewest moving parts. What type of timepiece has the most moving parts?
9. Peter’s mother has four children. Their names are: North, East and West. What is the fourth child’s name?
10. Name six English five-letter word that also make an English word when a letter is placed in front of the word.
Ready for the answers?
1. facetious
2. Fill the three-liter bottle with milk, then pour the three liters of milk into the five-liter bottle. Now again fill the three-liter bottle with milk and pour the milk in the three-liter bottle into the five-liter bottle until you fill it.
3. 12 stamps
You may have multiplied 2 x 12 to get 24. But a dozen stamps means 12 stamps no matter how much each stamp is worth.
4. one word
5. Their = There, erors = errors, and three has to become a two because there are only two errors.
6. 6
You may have thought the answer was “three outs”. But there are two teams that play in an inning. So there are six outs.
7. The butcher weighs meat!
8. An hourglass
9. The fourth child’s name is Peter. If you are not sure why, read the question again carefully.
10. please, ground, around, knight, fright, danger
Andrew (Source: Gary R. Gauber, PHD’s “The World’s 200 Hardest Brain Teasers” and Himself)