Riddles and Brain Teasers

Hundreds of Letters

What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?

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Mailbox

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A Big Pizza Pie

To get the most pizza, should you order two 12″ pizzas or one 18″ pie?

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One 18″, with ~255 sumptuous square inches. Two 12″ pizzas would only give you ~226 square inches.

Note: The area of a circle is = πr².

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Border Plane Crash

A plane crashed on the border or US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?

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Nowhere, you don’t bury survivors.

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After the Tenth One

After the tenth one it didn’t matter that he came from an ethnic minority. Who was it?

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Moses from the Bible. The Pharaoh wouldn’t release the ill-treated Israelites (an ethnic minority) from slavery until being visited by ten plagues.

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Twice Is 99 More Than Half

What number satisfies this requirement? Twice the number is 99 more than half of the number.

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66.

2 × 66 = 132 and 132 – 66 / 2 = 99.

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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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What Word Could Be Added to Make New Words?

What word could be added to all of these words?

apple
cone
lake
tree
ridge
nuts

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Pine.

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Twice As Many Women As Children

At a party of thirty-five people there are twice as many women as children and twice as many children as men. How many of each are there?

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20 women, 10 children and 5 men.

To figure it out, let m be the number of men and you get this equation:

4m + 2m + m = 35
7m = 35
m = 35 ÷ 7
m = 5

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Go in Dry, Come Out Wet

I go in dry and come out wet,
The longer I’m in, the stronger it will get.

What am I?

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A tea bag or cement.

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2 + 2 = 5

What is the similarity between “2 + 2 = 5” and your left hand?

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Neither is right. Two plus two equals five isn’t right, or correct and your left hand is not your right hand.

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