Riddles and Brain Teasers

After the Tenth One

After the tenth one it didn’t matter that he came from an ethnic minority. Who was it?

Moses from the Bible. The Pharaoh wouldn’t release the ill-treated Israelites (an ethnic minority) from slavery until being visited by ten plagues.

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You Are My Brother

You are my brother but I am not your brother. Who am I?

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Your sister.

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Ida puts her coffee into the microwave, as she does every morning, for exactly two minutes. When the microwave goes off, she opens the door, but then closes the door again and sets the microwave for two more seconds. What good would two more seconds be?

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To rotate the handle on the mug so she can comfortably remove it.

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Tree That’s Difficult To Get Along With

Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?

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A crab tree.

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Where I Never Was

You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?

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A reflection

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Lucky Number Seven

How is 7 different from the rest of the numbers from 1-10?

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7 (seven) is the only one with two syllables.

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An Alphabetical Rebus

What does this represent?

abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz

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Noel (more literally no “l”).

I hope you have a great holiday season!

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Banana Dresser Grammar

What do these words have in common?

1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess

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If you move the first letter to the end of the word, it forms the same word backwards. Banana = ananab, dresser = resserd, and so on.

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Losing Ten Minutes An Hour

A clock loses exactly ten minutes every hour. If the clock is set correctly at noon, what is the correct time when the clock reads 3:00pm?

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3:36pm. For every 60 minutes of real time, the clock moves 50 minutes. Put another way, 60/50 = 1.2 real minutes per slow-clock minute.In order for the clock to show 3:00pm, 180 of its slow minutes have to pass. 1.2 * 180 clock minutes = 216 real minutes or 3 hours and 36 minutes.

3:36pm. For every 60 minutes of real time, the clock moves 50 minutes. Put another way, 60/50 = 1.2 real minutes per slow-clock minute.

In order for the clock to show 3:00pm, 180 of its slow minutes have to pass. 1.2 * 180 clock minutes = 216 real minutes or 3 hours and 36 minutes.

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