Do you think you have the wits to take on our weekly Monday Brain Buster. We’ve rounded up the best brain teasers to really put your grey matter to the test.
See if you can work these out.
Monday Brain Buster No.47: I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
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No.46: What is more useful when it is broken?
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No.45: How many sides does a circle have?
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No.44: How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?
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No.43: What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
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No.42: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
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No.41: What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see?
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No.40: What can be stolen, mistaken or altered, but never leaves you your entire life?
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No.39: All five sisters are busy. Ann is reading a book, Rose is cooking, Katy is playing chess, and Mary is doing the laundry. What is the fifth sister doing?
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No.38: A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?
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No.37: What can you keep after giving to someone?
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No.36: Which side of a chicken has more feathers?
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No.35: In what circumstances does today come before yesterday?
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No.34: A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?
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No.33: What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
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No.32: What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
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No.31: I have a money box that measure 20cm wide and 10cm tall. Approximately how many coins do I need to place until my box is no longer empty?
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No.30: What is unusual about the following words: revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?
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No.29: What ties to people together but touches only one person?
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No.28: How can a man who shaves several times a day still sport a long beard?
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No.27: What do an island and the letter “t” have in common?
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No.26: You’re in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match, so what do you light first?
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No.25: The water level in a reservoir is low, but doubles every day. It takes 60 days to fill the reservoir. How long does it take for the reservoir to become half full?
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No.24: What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
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No.23: You’re escaping a maze, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a pit of lava. The door in the centre leads to a room filled with deadly gas. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?
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No.22: The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?
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No.21: Fourteen of the kids in the class are girls. Eight of the kids wear blue shirts. Two of the kids are neither girls or wear a blue shirt. If five of the kids are girls who wear blue shirts, how many kids are in the class?
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No.20: I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness. What am I?
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No.19: Your parents have six sons, including you, and each son has one sister. How many people in total are in the family?
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No.18: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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No.17: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
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No.16: A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is.
The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.”
Who was in the photograph?
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No.15: What is harder to catch the faster you run?
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No.14: What comes next in the following sequence? O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E
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No.13: Felicity popped down to her local hardware store last Saturday to inquire about the cost of several items. When she asked about one particular price the store manager said: “You can have 1 for $5, you can have 14 for $10, or I’ll give you 341 for $15!”.
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Happy with that final offer, Felicity took home 341. What was it that she was buying?
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No.12: A man dived underwater with no tank, snorkel or any other device to allow him to breathe, yet he stayed down there to live for the rest of his life. How is this possible?
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No.11: Which word can precede all of the following to make new words: less, power, storm, wave and wash?
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No.10: There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
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No.9: A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
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No.8: Guess the next three letters in this series: G, T, N, T, L,
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No.7: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
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No.6: A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?
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No.5: Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I?
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No.4: A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
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No.3: ‘Woolly’ is an example of a word that contains two consecutive pairs of double letters, but can you think of one of the very few words in the English language that contains three consecutive pairs of double letters?
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No.2: Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble; Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?
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No.1: Why is the number 8,549,176,320 unique?
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Answer to Brain Buster : No. 8
Dawn breaks, night falls.
No. 18: What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Shorter
The answer is Short, not Shorter.
Short is a 5-letter word, which becomes shorter when you add two letters (er).
Shorter is a 7-letter word.
Where is last weeks answer?
Identity crisis
Brain buster answer for 3rd July.
The word ‘seven’ without the letter ‘s’ becomes, the word ‘even’.
Good one!