Love brain teasers? Then try to solve these riddles on your own, and then look at the solution. Give it your best shot
1) What is so fragile that when you say its name, you break it?
2) I have no voice yet I speak to you, I tell of all things in the world that people do. I have leaves, but I am not a tree, I have pages, but I am not a bride. I have a spine and hinges but I am not a man or a door, I have told you all, I cannot tell you more. What am I?
3) I have no eyes, no legs or ears and I help move the earth. What am I?
4) You are in a house with four windows, all of which face South, a bear walks by. What colour is the bear?
5) Mike turns off the light in his bedroom. The switch is twenty feet away from the bed, but he still manages to get into his bed before it is dark. How does he do it?
6) A man and his son meet with a car accident. The father dies on the spot, but the boy is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, “I can’t operate on this boy, he is my son!” How can this be?
7) A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?
8) A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second of assassins with loaded guns, and the third of lions that haven’t eaten in three years. Which room is the safest for him to go to?
9) Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday (or day names in any other language)?
10) A cab driver picked up a lady who was a notorious chatterbox. He did not want to engage in conversation, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb. He pointed to his mouth and ears to indicate that he could neither speak nor hear. After she alighted, he pointed to the meter so that she could see how much she owed. She paid him and walked off. Then she realised that he could not have been a deaf mute. How did she know?
11) There are six eggs in a basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?
Solution
1) Fragile.
2) A book.
3) An earthworm.
4) White (It’s a polar bear, the house is at the North Pole)
5) He goes to bed when there is still daylight.
6) The surgeon was his mother.
7) They were two of a set of triplets (the third being a girl). Of course they can also be two of quadruplets, etc).
8) The third. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years would certainly have been dead.
9) Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!
10) He couldn’t be deaf as he must have heard her instructions when she entered his taxi or he wouldn’t have known where to take her.
11) The last person took the basket with the last egg still inside.