Riddles and Brain Teasers

Find the Three Mammals

The largest crowd at the flea market came looking for bargains.
I took off the peel and ate the banana.
He has no judgement, no sense altogether.

Find the three mammals in these statements.

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1. Camel (CAME Looking)
2. Eland (peEL AND)
3. Seal (senSE ALtogether)

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Before any changes I’m a garlic or spice. My first is altered and I’m a hand-warming device. My second is changed and I’m trees in full bloom. The next letter change makes a deathly old tomb. Change the fourth to make a fruit of the vine. Change the last for a chart plotted with lines. What was I? What did I become? What did I turn out to be?

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clove
glove
grove
grave
grape
graph

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24 from 9, 6, 11 and 3

How do you get 24 from 9, 6, 11 and 3 using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division?

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There are multiple solutions.

(6 – 3) × 11 – 9

(11 – 6) × 3 + 9

(9 – 6) × (11 – 3)

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Thought Rebus

What does this represent?

          but
thought thought

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But on second thought.

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Reverse to Equal Ten

Which two of these rows can be reversed so the total of each row, across and down, equals 10?

A. 5 4 1
B. 6 1 3
C. 3 5 2

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Rows B and C, becoming:

A. 5 4 1
B. 3 1 6
C. 2 5 3

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A Shorter Word

What word becomes shorter when you add letters to it?

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Short. Adding ‘er’ to short gives you shorter.

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12-Letter Word With All the Vowels

What 12-letter word has each of the vowels in alphabetical order without any repeated vowels?

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Abstemiously. It’s 12 letters long and the letter y is considered a vowel in certain cases, and is included. Facetiously is another word that has all the vowels in order, but it’s only 11 letters long.

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Sweet in the Sun

When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever.

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Wine

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Apple Rebus

What does this represent?

Apple
3.14

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Apple pie. (pi is a mathematical constant of 3.14…)

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The Snooze Button

Why is it very common to have a 9 minute snooze interval on alarm clocks, why not 10 instead?

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By setting the snooze time to 9 minutes, the alarm clock only needs to watch the last digit of the time. So, if you hit snooze at 6.45, the alarm goes off again when the last digit equals 4. They couldn’t make it 10 minutes, otherwise the alarm would go off right away, or it would take more circuitry.

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