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Riddles And Brain Teasers
Here are a few difficult riddles
and brain teasers to exercise that brainpower. You'll find the
solutions at the bottom of the page.
1. You can take away the whole
and still have some left. You can take away some and still have
the whole left. What is it?
2. If a man can walk 2 miles
per hour, and needs nine hours of sleep each day, what is the
fastest he could travel the 3000 miles from New York to Los Angeles?
3. The thunder comes before
the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain
dries everything it touches.
4. "Duo" is the shortest
word with "uo" in it. What is the longest word you
can find with "uo" in it?
There is at least one with 12 letters in it.
5. On a beautiful sunny day in Florida, a man freezes to death
outside. How is this possible?
6. Can you punctuate the following,
in order to make it a proper English sentence?
I said that that that that that man wrote should have been underlined
7. Alex bought a bag of apples
on Saturday, and he ate a third of them. On Sunday he ate half
of the remaining apples. He ate one more on Monday and one more
on Tuesday, then ate half of the remaining apples on Wednesday.
On Thursday he looked in the bag and saw that there was just
one apple left. How many apples did the bag have to begin with?
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Solutions To The Riddles
And Brain Teasers
1. The word "wholesome."
2. Just about three hours in
a plane. (Okay, or 100 days walking, but the riddle didn't specify
that he was walking - just that he can walk two miles per hour.)
3. A volcano.
4. "Fluoridation"
has 12 letters, and some dictionaries carry "fluoridization,"
with 14 letters, as a synonym. The word "duotrigintillion"
is in some English dictionaries. It is the name for a very large
number (10 to the 99th power), and it has 16 letters.
5. He climbed into the landing
gear of a plane to get a free ride, and the temperature at 30,000
feet was 40 degrees below freezing.
6. I said that,"that 'that' that
that man wrote should have been underlined. For a complete explanation, see the page; That Riddle About That "That".
7. 12.
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