24 Brain Teasers to Edge Your Brain

1.

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? Answer: The letter M.

2.

A woman shoots her husband, holds him underwater for five minutes then hangs him. Right after that, they enjoy a lovely dinner together. Explain. Answer: She took a picture of him, developed it in her darkroom, and then had dinner with him.

3.

I have keys, but no locks. I have space, but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I? Answer: A computer keyboard.

4.

What always ends everything? Answer: The letter G.

5.

I have seas without water, coasts without sand, towns without people, and mountains without land. What am I? Answer: A map.

6.

How much dirt is in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? Answer: None.

7.

What coat is best put on wet? Answer: A coat of paint.

8.

Which is correct to say: “The yolk of the egg is white” or “the yolk of the egg are white?” Answer: Neither, egg yolks are yellow.

9.

Why can’t you take a picture of a man with a wooden leg? Answer: Because a wooden leg can’t take pictures, only a camera can.

10.

This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it more. Answer: Your name.

11.

How many letters are in the alphabet? Answer: There are 11 letters in “the alphabet.”

12.

A clerk in a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 shoes. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat.

13.

A man shaves several times a day but still has a beard. Who is he? Answer: A barber.

14.

Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Answer: Mt. Everest.

15.

You see a boat filled with people. It has not capsized, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why? Answer: Everyone on the boat is married

16.

What goes all the way around the world, but stays in the corner? Answer: A stamp.

17.

What has four fingers and a thumb, but isn’t alive? Answer: A glove.

18.

What disappears as soon as you say its name? Answer: Silence.

19.

What gets bigger the more you take away? Answer: A hole.

20.

The man who built it doesn’t use it, the man who bought it doesn’t need it, and the man who uses it doesn’t know it. What is it? Answer: A coffin.

21.

What can never be put into a saucepan? Answer: Its lid.

22.

What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? Answer: A river.

23.

Many have heard me, but nobody has seen me. I will not speak until spoken to first. What am I? Answer: An echo.

24.

What can you hold in your left hand, but never in your right? Answer: Your right hand.