Riddles and Brain Teasers

Apples, Ice and Flowers

Apples, ice, and flowers can do it.
Pears, stones, and coins can’t.

Float.

By Sef Daystrom

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As Long As They’re Dead

This is a place. The first letter is after A and before Z but nowhere in between. You can bring as many people as you want, as long as they’re all dead. Where is it?

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The cemetery. The letter C is after A and before Z, and it’s not found in the word “between”. The cemetery won’t take live ones. Fortunately I don’t speak from experience on that.

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Fill With Empty Hands

What do you fill with empty hands?

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Gloves.

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Twice Is 99 More Than Half

What number satisfies this requirement? Twice the number is 99 more than half of the number.

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66.

2 × 66 = 132 and 132 – 66 / 2 = 99.

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The Snooze Button

Why is it very common to have a 9 minute snooze interval on alarm clocks, why not 10 instead?

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By setting the snooze time to 9 minutes, the alarm clock only needs to watch the last digit of the time. So, if you hit snooze at 6.45, the alarm goes off again when the last digit equals 4. They couldn’t make it 10 minutes, otherwise the alarm would go off right away, or it would take more circuitry.

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The Dead Bring Forth the Living

I saw the dead bring forth the living. I saw the living bring forth the dead. Who or what did I see?

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A funeral. Someone’s death caused the living to come to the funeral, and during the funeral the living carry the casket of the deceased.

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B C D

B, C, D, E, G, P

What is the next letter in the sequence?

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T. All of the letters rhyme.

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The Boat at High Tide

A boat has a ladder that has six rungs. Each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour.

When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?

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None. The boat is floating on the water, so as the tide rises, so does the ladder.

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