BRAIN TEASERS

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Can you name three consecutive

days without using the words
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday or
Sunday?
 ANSWER

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

 MURDER MYSTERY

A rich and handsome man was murdered on a

Sunday afternoon. At the time of the murder
there was: the maid, the cook, the butler, the
gardener and the wife.
Maid: I was fixing the table
Cook: I was cooking breakfast
Butler: I was polishing the silverware and
dishes
Gardener: I was planting tomato seeds
Wife: I was reading a book.
Who did it?
 ANSWER

The cook. You don’t cook

breakfast in the afternoon
 THE PLANE CRASH

There was a plane crash just north

of the Pacific Ocean. There were
24 people on the plane; 8 of them
were found just a little northwest
of the ocean. In which direction do
they bury the survivors?
 ANSWER

They don’t bury SURVIVORS

 VERY COLD

So you are walking outside

through the ice-cold snow. You
have nowhere to live but you come
to this little cabin. You have a
stove, a fireplace and a candle.
You only have one match, which
one do you light first?
 ANSWER

You light the match first

 MORE LIKE YOU

I am as small as an ant, as big as a

whale. I will approach like a breeze
but can come like a gale. By some I
get hit but all have shown fear. I will
dance to the music I can’t hear. Of
names I have many, of names I have
one. I am as slow as a snail but from
me you can’t run. What am I?
 ANSWER

I am a shadow
 HARDWARE STORE

A woman goes into a hardware store

to buy something for her house. When
asked the price, the clerk replies, “
The price of one is twelve cents, the
price of forty-four is twenty-four cents,
and the price of a hundred and forty-
four is thirty-six cents. What does the
woman want to buy?
 ANSWER

House numbers
 ANCIENT INVENTION

There is an ancient invention still

used in some parts of the world
today that allows people to see
through walls. What is it?
ANSWER

A window
 P AND E

What starts with “P” and ends

with “E” and has more than 1000
letters?
 ANSWER

Post Office
 PUZZLE 1

Here we have an olive (looking strangely like

a dime) in a martini glass. Move two
matches, to redraw the martini glass so the
olive is outside the glass.
 ANSWER

Here is the solution, moving the horizontal

matchstick, and the one on the far right.
Of course you remove the olive by turning
the glass upside down.
 PUZZLE 2

Start with this grid of 12 matchsticks,

remove two of them so that there are only
two squares left.
 ANSWER

This would have been even simpler, if I

had mentioned that the starting diagram
showed five squares.
 PUZZLE 3

Move three matchsticks, and make the

fish turn around and swim the other
direction.
 ANSWER

Move the faint matches in this

diagram.
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU SEE?
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU SEE?
HOW MANY FACES?