Riddles and Brain Teasers

If You Lose Me

If you lose me, others around you may lose me too. What am I?

Your temper.

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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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Count to A

If you were to spell out the numbers, how far would you have to go before encountering the letter A?

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One thousand (or one hundred and one, depending on how you pronounce it).

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Reaching Stiffly For The Sky

Reaching stiffly for the sky,
I bare my fingers when it’s cold
In warmth I wear an emerald glove
And in between I dress in gold

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A deciduous tree.

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What is the secret to this?

A1
C1
E3
H3

What comes next?

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I2.Each entry is a letter, in alphabetical order starting with A, followed by the number of occurrences of that letter in the phrase “What is the secret to this”.There’s one ‘a’, thus we get A1. There are no ‘b’s so it doesn’t appear, then there’s one ‘c’, and so on.

I2.

Each entry is a letter, in alphabetical order starting with A, followed by the number of occurrences of that letter in the phrase “What is the secret to this”.

There’s one ‘a’, thus we get A1. There are no ‘b’s so it doesn’t appear, then there’s one ‘c’, and so on.

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An Attorney for a Brother

The defendant testified, “The attorney is my brother,” but the attorney took the stand and denied having a brother under oath. Who is lying?

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Neither one of them lied. The defendant was the attorney’s sister.

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Once a Minute, Twice in a Moment

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but not once in a thousand years?

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The letter “m”.

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I A N Rebus

What does the following rebus represent?

I           A
      N
R           B

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Scatterbrain.

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Beach Vogue

What word can be made from three letters of beach and another three from vogue?

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Gauche. The letters “ach” from beach and “gue” from vogue.

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Hard Boiled Kiwi Bird Eggs

If you can hard boil a Kiwi bird egg in 20 minutes, how long would it take to hard boil four Kiwi bird eggs?
Note: Kiwi birds are about the size of a chicken, but they lay eggs that are close to the size of an Ostrich egg. So one would assume they must take a long time to hard boil.

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20 minutes. You can boil them all at once in a large pot.

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