Category Archives: Brain teaser

Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle: 

As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives.  Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat had seven kits; kits, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St Ives?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle: 

Consistent conduct and seen in a game
Steady, unchanging, remaining the same.
Police, armed forces, prisoners as well
It takes just one look, you’re able to tell.

What am I?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This week’s brain teaser was sent to me by my friend Omar Thomas. It is a real humdinger so if you don’t figure it out right away take a break and come back to it. Thank you Omar!

This weeks riddle:  What is the correct answer and why?

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I won’t lie, I’m recycling this, but I love it. The really frustrating part is that it still took me a while to find the mistake – ARGH!!!

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:
Solve this mathematical equation.

9 = 72
8 = 56
7 = 42
5 = 20
3 = ?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:

You can sometimes add using subtraction
Though it may require some unique action.
There is this one word, six letters contain
Take away just one and twelve will remain.

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:  A man is pushing his car until he comes to a hotel at which point he throws shouts, “I’m bankrupt!” Why?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle: 

There is a butcher who is six feet tall
With a size ten shoe, his shirts are not small.
A thirty inch waist, he runs every day
He’s forty years old, so what does he weigh?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle: 

One Sunday evening a little past five
The man of the house was found not alive.
It was a murder, a knife in his back
Police questioned all about the attack.
Jan had been busy, cooking the dinner
Jill had gone running, just to get thinner.
Jane had gone outside to pick up the mail
Which one of these three would end up in jail?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:

At the funeral of their dear friend Ted
Were three pallbearers, Bill, Tony and Fred.
Each had their problems, each of them quite sad
All suicidal, all three had it bad.
Bill lost his dream job, Tony lost his wife
And doctors told Fred he might lose his life.
They were despondent, life they each did dread
Who there, next morning, likely would be dead?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:  The paragraph below is most unusual. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you’d think nothing was wrong with it – and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why?

“Gatsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill’s manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day’s traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing, told of a small Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway’s night shopping crowds. Gatsby, walking towards that group, saw a young girl, back toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration … ”

The above passage is taken from the book “Gatsby” written by Ernest Vincent Wright in the late 1930’s

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle or some type of brain teaser to get you to think outside the box and to exercise your brain.

I have not included an optical teaser in quite a while and thought this was rather interesting. At first glance what do you see?  There is a message that becomes apparent when you take a closer look.  Do you see it?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.

If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to be able to give everyone a chance to guess.

This weeks riddle:

Viewed in the mirror or turned on its head
The same old number is what will be read.
When flipped upside down it’s still very plain
The same four digits are what will remain.
Fat in the middle with skinny bookends
Eighteen’s the total, just add to the ends.

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:  Which city is three fifth chick two third cat and 50% goat ?

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Each Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain. If you are stumped, share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle:  Two men are trying to determine if a barrel of wine is more than half full. Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can one easily determine if the barrel is more or less than half full?

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