Riddles and Brain Teasers

Goes With a Car

What goes with a car, comes with a car, is of no use to a car, but the car can’t move without it?

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Noise. The engine is usually the main culprit, but even electric cars make some noise from the tires on the road.

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Longest AIOTS word

What is the longest word you can find using only the letters AIOTS (each letter can be used any number of times)?

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Tattooists, which has 10 letters.

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Word With All 26 Letters

What word contains all 26 letters?

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Alphabet (unfortunately there aren’t any actual dictionary words with every letter in the alphabet, so this gimmicky, somewhat unsatisfying answer has to suffice).

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Dragon Lewis

Rearrange the letters in this phrase to make a single word.

DRAGON LEWIS

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A SINGLE WORD. Tricky, eh? But you can’t complain, since I gave you the answer.

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Fewest Queens For Full Attack

What is the smallest number of queens required on a chess board to attack all squares?

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5. To see where they need to be placed, check out the diagram on Wolfram’s Queens Problem page.

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No Eyes But Once Could See

I do not have eyes but I once could see. I used to have thoughts but now I’m empty.

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A skull.

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$500 For Basketball

500 people attended a high school basketball game and raised $500 for the school.

The prices were as follows:
Mothers $3.00
Fathers: $2.00
Children $0.48

More mothers than fathers turned up. How many children were there?

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375 children (70 mothers and 55 fathers)

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Slice My Head

You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I’m dead.

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An onion.

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Letters, Letters, What Comes Next?

What letter comes next letter in this series?

A E F H I ___

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K. It’s the series of capital letters without curves in alphabetical order.

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Binds Two But Touches One

What binds two people yet touches only one?

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A wedding ring.

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