Mind Bending Fun
Give your brain a little workout session with these mind bending brainteasers that school aged children and adults will enjoy. This collection of brainteasers will challenge the mind and encourage you to think outside of the box.
Jessica was running in a street marathon and she overtook the person in 2nd place. What place is she in now?
Second
A murderer is sentenced to death. He has to choose among three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
The third room because lions that haven't eaten in three years have already perished.
What is the only word in the English language that has 6 letters, all in alphabetical order?
Almost.
How can you take 9 toothpicks and make ten without breaking the toothpicks?
Arrange the toothpicks to spell out the word TEN (every line making the letters in the word ten is one toothpick. There are nine lines you draw when writing ten, so there are 9 toothpicks making TEN).
What 9 letter English word is still a word each time you take away a letter?
Startling: starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.
There is a fire in a building with 27 floors. A woman panics and jumps out of the window. How does she survive?
Shee jumped from a first floor window.
Hunter walked down the street and bumped into his old friend from college."I haven't seen you for ages! I've married someone you wouldn't know." said the young friend. "This is our daughter!" "And what's your name, girl?" Hunter asked the little girl who was holding his college friend's hand."It's the same as my mommy!" Said the girl."Oh so it's Marissa, is it?" Henry asked.He was right! How did he know the girl's name?
The old friend of Hunter's was the mother of the little girl! Most people would assume that Marissa Senior (the friend) was a man because Hunter was a man! So Hunter just said the name of his friend.
You are in a bathroom with cement walls and no windows. You start to run a bath when the handles come off and there is no way of turning the tap off. You can't escape because the door is locked and there are no windows. The room will soon flood and you will drown. How can you save yourself?
Pull the plug in the tub.
