Love brain teasers? Then try to solve these riddles on your own, and then look at the solution. Give it your best shot
1) Which five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
2) Find a number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its value when its digits are reversed.
3) A farmer is trying to cross a river with a bag of corn, a hen, and a fox. The farmer's boat is only big enough to take himself and one other item per trip. The hen cannot be left alone with the corn or she will eat it. Likewise the fox cannot be left with the hen, or the hen will be eaten. How does the farmer get all three items across the river?
4) A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
5) What letter comes next in the following sequence? D R M F S L T_
6) Johnny's Mother has three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
7) A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
8) If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
9) How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?
10) How do you write 23 using only the number 2; 34 using only the number 3; 56 using only the number 5; 100 using only the number 9?
11) In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
12) What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
13) What is the nutritious, orange-yellow root of a plant of parsley family?
14) What's full of holes but can still hold water?
Solution:
1) Short
2) 45 (1/5 of 45 = 9, 9 + 45 = 54).
3) The farmer takes the hen across first, and leaves her on the other bank. Next, he comes back, loads the fox onto his boat, and takes him back across the river. He drops off the fox on the opposite bank, picks up the hen, and brings her back to the original bank. He swaps the hen for the corn, and returns to the far bank with the corn - leaving it with the fox. Then, he returns once more to the original bank to get the hen. Once he brings her across, all four are on the other side!
4) The ball costs 5 cents. One dollar more than 5c is $1.05. The sum of which is $1.10.
5) D - each letter represents one note in the diatonic musical scale: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do.
6) Johnny.
7) Meat.
8) 2nd place.
9) Once. After that, you'd be subtracting from 48.
10) 22+2/2=23, 33+3/3=34, 55+5/5=56, 99+9/9=100
11) You can't take a picture with a wooden leg; you need a camera.
12) Incorrectly.
13) Carrot.
14) A sponge.
