Did you know working out brain teasers and logic puzzles can improve our short-term memory loss?
Challenging our grey matter with brain teasers and other types of riddles keeps the connections between our brain cells firing.
Additionally, learning how to solve brain teasers improves our ability to focus and concentrate, too! So to sharpen our wits for a successful year, try these 10 Brain Teasers to Get the Neurons Firing!
Brain Teaser Questions
1. A farmer has 19 sheep and all but seven die. How many are left?
2. In a year, there are 12 months. Seven months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
3. What can be stolen, mistaken, or altered, yet never leaves you your entire life?
4. A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
5. I do not have any special powers, but I can predict the score of any football game before it begins. How can I do this?
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6. A family lives in a skyrise building on the tenth floor. Every day their daughter takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When she returns later that day, she uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?
7. Feed me and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?
8. What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?
9. You are driving a bus. The first stop, two women get on. At the second stop, three men get on and one woman gets off. And at the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off. The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus driver’s hair?
10. Imagine that you are in a boat, in the middle of the sea. Suddenly, you are surrounded by hungry sharks, just waiting to feed on you. How can you put an end to this?
Brain Teasers Answers
1. Seven.
2. All of them.
3. Your identity.
4. You do not bury the survivors!
5. The score is always the same before the game: zero to zero!
6. She can’t reach the buttons higher than five.
7. Fire.
8. An anchor.
9. Whatever colour your hair is! Remember, you’re the bus driver.
10. You just stop imagining!
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