Riddles and Brain Teasers

If I Can I Can

If I can, I can,
If I can’t, I freeze.

What am I?

Someone preserving food. The two most common ways of preserving food are canning and freezing. So when you preserve food, if you can can it, you do, otherwise you freeze it.

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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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One Two Six Sequence

What is the next number in this series?

1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ___

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To get the next number, multiply the previous number in the series by itself plus one:n × (n + 1).For example, to get 6, multiply 2 × (2 + 1)
To get 42 multiply 6 × (6 + 1)Thus, 1806 × 1807 = 3263442

To get the next number, multiply the previous number in the series by itself plus one:

n × (n + 1).

For example, to get 6, multiply 2 × (2 + 1)
To get 42 multiply 6 × (6 + 1)

Thus, 1806 × 1807 = 3263442

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I C the C Above the C, What Do I C?

Note: This riddle works better when spoken, and the C is there to avoid giving anything away in written form.

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The crescent moon above the ocean.

(I see the C above the sea)

Found on Reddit.

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Find The Hidden Color

Find the color in each of these sentences.

1. Temper or anger are signs of weakness.
2. The money is for Edward.
3. You’ll find I got it elsewhere.
4. One dancer, I see, is out of step.
5. “I’m a gent and a lady’s man,” he said.

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1. orange
2. red
3. indigo
4. cerise (This was a tough one)
5. magenta

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A Foot On Each Side

What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?

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A yard stick.

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A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 months.

Which room should he choose to have the best chance of staying alive?

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The third room, since the lions would have died from starvation.

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