Riddles and Brain Teasers

A Woman Without All Her Fingers On One Hand

What do you call a woman who doesn’t have all her fingers on one hand?

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Normal. Women (and men for that matter) have half of their fingers on one hand and half of them on the other.

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Two Words Is My Answer

Two words is my answer. In order to keep me, you have to give me. What am I?

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Your word.

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Three Cuts to Turn a Round Cake Into Eight Equal Slices

How can you cut a round cake three times to make eight equal slices?

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Cut #1 – Down the center of the cake (vertically) leaving two equal halves.
Cut #2 – Across the center of the cake (horizontally) leaving four equal slices.
Cut #3 – Through the middle edge of the cake slicing all four of the pieces in equal halves, leaving eight equal slices (four equal tops and four equal bottoms).

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A City in the Twilight

Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last, lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights — A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.

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The Past (Longfellow).

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Graphical Rebus Three

What does this rebus represent?

Rebus

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Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

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Many Foods Make Me Strong

Many foods can make me strong but give me water and I won’t last long. What am I?

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Fire.

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Add More But Weigh Less

The 17 items in your shopping cart weigh 8 pounds. But when your daughter puts in a ball, poster board and yo-yo the shopping cart weighs less. How is that possible?

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Your daughter had to get out of the cart to fit the remaining items.

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From Scraps to Pants

A tailor can make a pair of pants from the scraps left over from sewing up five pairs of pants. If he has twenty-five scraps, how many pairs of pants can he make?

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Six pairs of pants. He can make five initially, but once he’s done making five pairs of pants, he’ll have five remaining sets of scraps, meaning he can make an additional pair of pants, totaling six.

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