Riddles and Brain Teasers

Walking Through Paper

You have a regular sized piece of paper. How could you cut a hole in it large enough for you to walk through?

Fold the paper in half and make cuts that are almost entirely across the width of the paper. Switch between sides. When the paper is opened there will be a very large hole that you can climb through (carefully).

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Five Items In a Tennis Court

We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court. What are we?

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The vowels. The phrase “a tennis court” contains all five vowels sorted in alphabetic order: a, e, i, o, u.

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Cat-Related Phrases

What are these words or phrases, which contain the word cat?

A dreadful event (11 letters)
A robber who climbs walls (10 letters, 2 words)
A systematic list (7 letters)

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Catastrophe
Cat Burglar
Catalog

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A Vowel-less Proverb

FLND HSMN YRSN PRTD

This is a well known proverb that has had all of its vowels removed. In addition, the letters have been broken up into groups of four while maintaining their correct order.

What is the proverb?

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

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The Rooster

A rooster lays an egg at the very top of a slanted roof. Which side is the egg going to roll off on?

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Neither, roosters don’t lay eggs.

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Scrambled Animals

Using each of the letters in this phrase only once, rearrange the letters to make the names of exactly three different animals.

Tall elephant or ape man.

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1. Panther
2. Antelope
3. Llama

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Placed On the Table But Never Eaten

What is placed on the table, cut and passed but never eaten?

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A deck of cards. You play card games on a table, cut the deck, then deal (or pass out) the cards, but you only eat the snacks.

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B C D E I K O X Series

What other letter fits in the following series

B C D E I K O X ?

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The letter H. It completes the list of letters that are vertically symmetrical. In other words, you can fold the top half of the letter over the bottom half and everything lines up.

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