Riddles and Brain Teasers

A Perfect Gentleman

He was the perfect gentleman even though his nephew couldn’t see it. Who was he?

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A fine chap with a blind nephew (or an exemplary uncle who died before his nephew was born).

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Green You Eat It

What is one word that, when it’s green you eat it and when it’s blue you wear it?

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Bell. You eat a green bell pepper and you were a blue bell (a flower).

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When Is The Equation Correct?

When is the following equation correct?

14 + 1 = 3

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When dealing with 24-hour time, 1400 hours plus 1 hour is 1500 hours, also known as 3 o’clock.

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Bricks to Finish a Building

How many bricks does it take to finish a brick building?

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One (the last one is the only one that can finish the building).

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Plane Crash Off Coast of Mexico

A plane crashed off the coast of Mexico and every single person died, yet there were two survivors. How could that happen?

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There was a married couple.

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A bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopedia to the last page in a straight line. The encyclopedia consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?

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__ __ B| | | |F A|1 |...........................|10|R C| | | |O K| | | |N |__| |__|T ------------------------------------- On a book shelf the first page of the first volume is on the “inside”, so the bookworm eats only through the cover of the first volume, then 8 times 1000 pages of Volumes 2 – 9, then through the cover to the 1st page of Vol 10 for a total of 8,000 pages.Note: The question asks how many pages, not how many sheets of paper.

        __                             __
      B|  |                           |  |F
      A|1 |...........................|10|R
      C|  |                           |  |O
      K|  |                           |  |N
       |__|                           |__|T
      -------------------------------------

On a book shelf the first page of the first volume is on the “inside”, so the bookworm eats only through the cover of the first volume, then 8 times 1000 pages of Volumes 2 – 9, then through the cover to the 1st page of Vol 10 for a total of 8,000 pages.

Note: The question asks how many pages, not how many sheets of paper.

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Growing Tall But Never Fat

This on this.
That on that.
Growing tall,
but never fat.

What am I?

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A stack.

By Sef Daystrom

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I Know of Word of Letters Three

I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be

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Few.

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Midway Numbers

Select the number that is midway between the lowest number and the highest number.
Which number is midway between that number and the number that is nearest the highest number?

35  5 52 36 67
69  4 51 37 71
55 68  3 53 39

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53.37 is midway between 3 (the lowest number) and 71 (the highest number).
53 is midway between 37 and 69 (nearest to the highest number).

53.

37 is midway between 3 (the lowest number) and 71 (the highest number).
53 is midway between 37 and 69 (nearest to the highest number).

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Measured But Not Seen

What can be measured but not seen?

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Time. Or my toes when I’ve had one too many donuts…

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