Riddles and Brain Teasers

You’ll Never See It Again

What day will you never see again?

Yesterday.

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Debbie’s Dragster

Debbie starts driving her dragster from rest and constantly accelerates to 60 mph in 10 seconds. How far does she travel in those 10 seconds?

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1/12 mileTen seconds is 1/6 of a minute and 1 minute is 1/60 of an hour, so 10 seconds is 1/360 of an hour.If you graph her trip with the speed on the y-axis and the time on the x-axis, you get a triangle with height of 60 mph and width of 1/360 of an hour. To calculate the area of the triangle, you multiply 1/2 × 1/360 × 60 = 1/12.

1/12 mile

Ten seconds is 1/6 of a minute and 1 minute is 1/60 of an hour, so 10 seconds is 1/360 of an hour.

If you graph her trip with the speed on the y-axis and the time on the x-axis, you get a triangle with height of 60 mph and width of 1/360 of an hour. To calculate the area of the triangle, you multiply 1/2 × 1/360 × 60 = 1/12.

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Lines in the Rebus

What does this represent?

| R | E | A | D | I | N | G |

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Reading between the lines

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Always Hungry, Must Be Fed

I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I touch,
Will soon turn red

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Fire

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Kings And Queens May Cling To Power

Kings and queens may cling to power
and the jester’s got his call
But, as you may all discover,
the common one outranks them all

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An ace (in a deck of cards).

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Broken Before Use

I am broken before you use me,
I brighten your day until I die.

What am I?

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Glow sticks that you have to break to start glowing, then they fade out (die).

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Full Of Lines

I’m full of lines and my job is to lie, yet I’m revered by many. What am I?

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An actor. They memorize lines and lie about who they are, yet well-known actors are mobbed by fans whenever they’re seen in public.

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Oh, Oh, Oh, No

What number do the three letters O, H and N represent in order to make this addition problem correct?

OH
OH
OH
OH +
-----
NO

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O = 2
H = 3
N = 9

23
23
23
23 +
-----
92

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What Has Hair and Leaks?

What has hair and leaks when something bad happens?

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Your eye. Your eyelashes are the hair and when something bad happens, your cry.

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100 Less Than 99

Where do you find that 100 is less than 99?

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On a microwave. Most microwaves will run for a minute if you enter 100, but will run for a minute and 39 seconds if you enter 99.100 is also less than 99 in an ordered ranking, where 1 is first, and 100th is a lower rank than 99th place.

On a microwave. Most microwaves will run for a minute if you enter 100, but will run for a minute and 39 seconds if you enter 99.

100 is also less than 99 in an ordered ranking, where 1 is first, and 100th is a lower rank than 99th place.

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