Riddles - Mind Twisters – Brain Teasers

7. Always aim to get to the numbers 2, 9, 16, 23. Take 2 matches the first
     time. If the other player takes e.g. 3, then take 4, if he takes 5, take 2 etc.

6. Each of the two women married the son of the other woman, later giving 
     birth to a boy.

5. Exactly in the middle of Australia you find the letter ‘r’. (Maybe even
     people without special geographic knowledge could have found out…).

4. The two friends are standing with their back to the rail, facing each other,
      the one on the east side looking to the west, the one on the west side to the east.

3. The worker needs 27 minutes. He only needs six cuts to get seven pieces.

2. The traveller’s friend doesn’t get the message. He cannot open the locked
     mailbox since the key is in the delivered letter already in the mailbox.

1. The name of Mr. Smith future wife will probably be Mrs. Smith.

Mathematic Puzzle

7. The rock weighs 960 kg. (This one was easy for a start, but wait for later
      mathematical puzzles.)

6.  The water lilies need just one more day to cover the whole pond.

5. Bonzo is 10 and the brother 30 years old.

4. Nelly is 24, little Fred 3 years old.

3. The two-figure number is 25, namely 2x25+2=52 (reversed).

2. 14 people are in the bus. Surprised? (The common denominator can only
      be 12, so there are 4+9 passengers plus the driver (not to forget).

1. The total distance the rubber ball travels is 277.778m.


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