9 Of The Best Brain Teasers | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post
Entertainment

9 Of The Best Brain Teasers

Brain teasers that can sharpen your mind and fool your friends!

78
9 Of The Best Brain Teasers

Brain teasers are like metaphors; they are great only if you understand them. According to Sharp Brains, an organization dedicated to tracking health and wellness applications of brain science, brain teasers can improve cognitive abilities and even reduce the effects of dementia. This is a great excuse to spend your afternoon surfing the web for the best brain teasers known to man. Here are 9 brain teasers that can sharpen your mind and fool your friends! Answers are at the bottom.

1. What am I?

With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

2. Heads or tails?

You flip a coin four times and get heads each time. What is the probability that you will get heads on your next coin flip?

3. Useless?

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?

4. Not all seeing

What has an eye but cannot see?

5. Big man small shoes

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size seven shoes. What does he weigh?

6. Look it up

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?

7. Dreams

Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?

8. Rising tide

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.
When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?

9. A cigarette lighter

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?




Answers

1. A stapler

2. 1/2

3. A coffin

4. A needle

5. Meat

6. Incorrectly

7. Stop imagining.

8. Never. If the water is rising, the boat will be rising too, and so will the ladder.

9. One of the men throws a cigarette off the boat to make the boat a cigarette lighter.





Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
Gilmore Girls
Hypable

In honor of Mother’s Day, I have been thinking of all the things my mom does for my family and me. Although I couldn’t write nearly all of them, here are a few things that moms do for us.

They find that shirt that’s right in front of you, but just you can’t seem to find.

Keep Reading...Show less
Relationships

10 Reasons To Thank Your Best Friend

Take the time to thank that one friend in your life you will never let go of.

2962
Thank You on wooden blocks

1. Thank you for being the one I can always count on to be honest.

A true friend will tell you if the shirt is ugly, or at least ask to borrow it and "accidentally" burn it.

2. Thank you for accepting me for who I am.

A best friend will love you regardless of the stale french fries you left on the floor of your car, or when you had lice in 8th grade and no one wanted to talk to you.

Keep Reading...Show less
sick student
StableDiffusion

Everybody gets sick once in a while, but getting sick while in college is the absolute worst. You're away from home and your mom who can take care of you and all you really want to do is just be in your own bed. You feel like you will have never-ending classwork to catch up on if you miss class, so you end up going sick and then it just takes longer to get better. Being sick in college is really tough and definitely not a fun experience. Here are the 15 stages that everyone ends up going through when they are sick at college.

Keep Reading...Show less
kid
Janko Ferlic
Do as I say, not as I do.

Your eyes widen in horror as you stare at your phone. Beads of sweat begin to saturate your palm as your fingers tremble in fear. The illuminated screen reads, "Missed Call: Mom."

Growing up with strict parents, you learn that a few things go unsaid. Manners are everything. Never talk back. Do as you're told without question. Most importantly, you develop a system and catch on to these quirks that strict parents have so that you can play their game and do what you want.

Keep Reading...Show less
friends
tv.com

"Friends" maybe didn’t have everything right or realistic all the time, but they did have enough episodes to create countless reaction GIFs and enough awesomeness to create, well, the legacy they did. Something else that is timeless, a little rough, but memorable? Living away from the comforts of home. Whether you have an apartment, a dorm, your first house, or some sort of residence that is not the house you grew up in, I’m sure you can relate to most of these!

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments