Riddles and Brain Teasers

$63 Exactly

A man owed his friend $63 and repaid him the exact amount in cash without using coins or $1 bills (no online transfers, checks, credit cards or any other tricks) and without requiring change. How did he do it?

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A $50 bill, a $5 bill and four $2 bills.

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Longer With a Letter Removed

What 7-letter word becomes longer when you remove a letter?

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Lounger (remove the ‘u’ to make the word longer).

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Fish Seal Word Ladder

Get from the word FISH to SEAL by changing one letter at a time and forming another English word in each step.

1. FISH
2. _ _ _ _
3. _ _ _ _
4. _ _ _ _
5. _ _ _ _
6. SEAL

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1. FISH
2. FIST
3. FEST
4. FEAT
5. SEAT
6. SEAL

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Dumbstruck Beekeeper

Which word does not belong?

beekeeper, dumbbell, dumbstruck, untruthful

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Dumbbell. All of the other words have only one of the vowels (a, e, i, o, u).

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This Is What Some People Do

This is what some people do,
For a compliment or two,
Anglers do it on a bank,
Others keep theirs in a tank.

What am I?

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A fish. Some people fish for compliments, anglers are fishermen and fish live in a tank.

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Come For a Ride

I go up, but at the same time go down,
Up toward the sky and down toward the ground,
I’m present tense and past tense too,
Come for a ride, just me and you.

What am I?

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A see-saw.

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Stocking the Shelves

Alfred and Bill are clerks at the local grocery store. Alfred can stock a shelf in 20 minutes, but Bill is new and takes 30 minutes. How long would it take for them to stock a shelf together?

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Working together they can stock a shelf at a rate of 1/20 + 1/30 (or 5/60) per minute. They’ll finish in 12 minutes

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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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Dry As a Bone

Milton was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How did this happen?

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Milton sadly suffers from alopecia, more commonly known as baldness. The old coot was as bald as a ping pong ball, leaving not a single hair on his head to get wet.

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