A Daily Puzzle / Brain Teaser

Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 07/06/2009

2009-07-05T14:20:00.000-05:00

A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three.
Break the walls, eat the boarders, then throw away me.
What am I?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 07/03/2009

2009-07-02T20:21:00.000-05:00

A plane was returning from the Olympic Games with five
athletes who placed first through fifth in an event. They
made the following statements:
A: "I was not the last"
B: "C was the third"
C: "A was behind E"
D: "E was second"
E: "D was not the first."
On account of modesty or for some other reason, the gold
and silver medallists lied. The three worst athletes told
the truth.
What order did they all place in?
Solution

Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 07/02/2009

2009-07-01T21:56:00.000-05:00

Brad Doe works for a packaging company. One day, he received four separate orders and accidentally mixed up the addresses, so he applied the address labels at random. What is the probability that exactly three packages were correctly labeled?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 07/01/2009

2009-06-30T19:59:00.001-05:00

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between
three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/30/2009

2009-06-29T20:45:00.002-05:00

In the Smith family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters are in the family?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/28/2009

2009-06-27T21:07:00.000-05:00

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Jones began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs. Jones turned to her husband and said, "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as many as you and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have equal loads."
How many parcels were each carrying?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/26/2009

2009-06-26T06:05:00.000-05:00

A horse is tied to a five meter rope in front of an old saloon. Six meters behind the horse is a bale of hay. Without breaking his rope, the horse is able to eat the hay whenever he chooses. How is this possible?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/25/2009

2009-06-24T21:22:00.000-05:00

Two easy one's today!1. Double my number, I'm less than a score, half of my number is less than four. Add one to my double when bakers are near, days of the week are still greater, I fear. What am I?

2. Continue this pattern: 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, ?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/24/2009

2009-06-23T20:47:00.000-05:00

Mr. Whimpy was terrified of the dark. When he went to bed, he would flip off the light switch on the far wall, then tear across the room to bed, 10 feet away. However, the other day, he flipped the switch, walked slowly to his bed, and climbed in before the room went dark. He only used his finger to switch off the light. How did he manage this brave feat?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/23/2009

2009-06-22T19:54:00.002-05:00

Complete the eight words using each letter of the alphabet
only once.
_ A _ E R I _ _
_ U _ _ _ E
_ I _ _ E
_ _ L _ E R
_ I _ _
_ _ A P
B R _ _ _ N
_ O L _ _ A _
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/22/2009

2009-06-21T17:38:00.000-05:00

Brad stared through the dirty soot-smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt.
Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?
Solution

Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/19/2009

2009-06-18T19:09:00.000-05:00

I can be any colour you can imagine.
You see me in everyday life.
I have been around for many, many years, look around... you can probably see some of me right now.
What am I?
Solution

Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/18/2009

2009-06-17T19:46:00.001-05:00

You are on an island in the middle of a lake. The lake is in a remote part of the country and there has never been a bridge connecting the island to the mainland.
Every day a tractor and wagon gives hay rides around the island. Puzzled as to how the tractor had gotten onto the island, you ask around and find out that the tractor was not transported to the island by boat or by air. Nor was it built on the island.
Explain how the tractor got there?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/17/2009

2009-06-16T19:50:00.000-05:00

A worm is at the bottom of a forty foot hole. It can crawl upwards at the rate of four feet in one day, but at night, it slips back three feet. At this rate, how long will it take the worm to crawl out of the hole?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/16/2009

2009-06-15T20:44:00.001-05:00

While exploring the wilds of Canada, George was captured by hostile wood fairies. Zion, the powerful chief of the fairies told him he could make one final statement which would determine how he would die.
If the statement he made was false, he would be boiled in water. If the statement were true, he would be fried in oil. George found neither of this options too his liking, so he made a statement that got him out of this seemingly impossible situation.
What is the one statement he could have made?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/15/2009

2009-06-14T19:14:00.000-05:00

A very religious man enters a church and approaches a statue of St. Paul raised up on a pillar at the side wall. He prays that if the saint would double the money he was carrying in his pocket then he would immediately donate $2 to the church collection box at the altar. His prayers are immediately answered and he deposits $2 into the collection box. He requests the same deal with two further saints and in both cases his prayers are answered and in both cases he sub-sequently deposits $2 in the collection box. Upon his exit from the church the young man checks his pocket only to discover that he has no money left. How much money did he have in his pocket when he entered the church?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/13/2009

2009-06-12T21:05:00.000-05:00

Four of them for you today.

Question 1:
I saw a man in white, he looked quite a sight. He was not old, but he stood in the cold. And when he felt the sun he started to run. Who could he be? Please answer me.

Question 2:
They call me a man, but I'll never have a wife.
I was given a body, but not given life.
They made me a mouth, but didn't give me breath.
Water gives me life and sun brings me death.
What am I?

Question 3:
White bird, featherless, flyin' out o' paradise, flyin' over sea and land, dyin' in my hand. What is it?

Question 4:
What flies when it's born, lies when it alive, and runs when it's dead?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/12/2009

2009-06-11T19:36:00.000-05:00

A mother gave birth to twin boys, but they were born in different years and on different days. And no, the boys are not part of 2 sets. How can this be possible?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/11/2009

2009-06-10T21:01:00.001-05:00

There is a town in Texas where 5% of all the people living there have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the town's phone directory, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/10/2009

2009-06-09T19:43:00.000-05:00

A cop was walking past a restaurant when he heard someone scream - "No John, not the gun!" He ran inside and and saw a doctor, a lawyer, a milkman, and a dead body on the floor. He promptly walked over to the milkman and arrested him. He didn't witness the shooting and there was no apparent evidence to prove who shot the person and no one told him who the killer was.
How did the policeman instantly know it was the milkman?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/09/2009

2009-06-08T20:18:00.001-05:00

Two mothers and two daughters go shopping. They have $21, which they split equally between them. How can this be possible?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/08/2009

2009-06-07T20:10:00.000-05:00

There was a shipwreck at sea and Buck, Lance and Jack were washed ashore on a small island. Reaching the shore, exhausted, they all fell asleep. Buck woke first and saw that a box of bananas had been washed ashore. He ate one third of the bananas and went back to sleep. Next, Lance woke up an seeing the box of bananas, ate one third of what was left and fell asleep. Jack woke up next and assumed that the other two hadn't eaten any bananas, so he ate one third of what remained. When Jack had finished, there were eight bananas left over. How many bananas were in the box originally?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/06/2009

2009-06-05T19:42:00.000-05:00

What Christmas message is written here?
A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/05/2009

2009-06-04T19:51:00.000-05:00

Scientists have proven that cats have more hair on one side then their other side. Some people believe that this is because when cats lay on their side they need insulation from the cold on the floor or ground. Which side of a cat has more hair?
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Daily Brain Teaser / Puzzle For 06/04/2009

2009-06-03T19:43:00.001-05:00

Old Mr. Tidy was found dead in his study by Mr. Fiend. Mr. Fiend recounted his dismal discovery to the police. "I was walking by Mr. Tidy`s house when I thought I would just pop in for a visit. I noticed his study light was on and I decided to peek in from the outside to see if he was in there. There was frost on the window, so I had to wipe it away to see inside. That is when I saw his body. So I kicked in the front door to confirm my suspicions of foul play. I called the police immediately afterward." The officer immediately arrested Mr. Fiend for the murder of Mr. Tidy. How did he know Mr. Fiend was lying?
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