1260 Challenging Brain Teasers Page 25 of 84
Brain teasers and logic puzzles may require you to think hard and sometimes think outside the box.
361. A man decides to buy a nice horse. He pays $60 for it, and he is very content with this strong animal. After a year, the value of the horse has increased to $70 and he decides to sell the horse. But already a few days later he regrets his decision to sell the beautiful horse, and he buys it again. Unfortunately he has to pay $80 to get it back, so he loses $10. After another year of owning the horse, he finally decides to sell the horse for $90. What is the overall profit the man makes?
362. Which three letter word can be attached to the beginning of the following words to give six other words ?
rock
post
spread
time
evil
clothes
363. Start with the number of the street in New York where you hear "those dancing feet," add the number of feet in a fathom and divide by the number of sides on one of a pair of dice. What is the answer?
364. How can you drop a raw egg 6 feet without breaking it?
365. Take a word like POT, add the letter U, and you have POUT. Described below are other pairs of works in which one becomes the other merely by the addition of a U. So, U can:
a. make avenging deities out of small fish
b. take a money holder and chase it
c. pry with a lever into an elevation
d. shade off into an academician
e. make a bird out of a letter
f. take a bony structure and make it lie flat
g. turn a news medium into a poor thing
h. go from satisfied to a fight
i. perform as a pair
j. change people into a list of food
366. Charlie likes the taste of turnips but not squash, he enjoys lettuce but not broccoli, and he loves the taste of a pear but not that of a plum. Following the same logic, will he like parsnips of celery?
367. Rotating a real-life crop from RICE to CORN would be nearly impossible. Here, it should only take five steps by changing one letter at a time to form the interim words.
R I C E
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
CORN
368. Can you come up with a common English word of 6 letters containing: (a) four E's; (b) four O's; (c) four S's.
369. If three typists can type 9 pages in one and a half hours, how many pages can nine typists type in 3 hours?
370. The following cryptogram has been done in a simple substitution cipher: each number represents a letter, and the same number always represents the same letter. What does it say?
14 26 23 26 14 22 24 6 9 18 22 24 26 15 15 22 23 8 26 18 23 8 19 22 4 26 8 20 22 7 7 18 13 20 20 15 12 4 18 13 20 9 22 11 12 9 7 8 21 12 9 19 22 9 4 12 9 16.
371. What are the two missing numbers in the series below?
_ _ 3 3 7 7 2 3 6 5
372. What everyday English word is most often pronounced incorrectly, even by the brightest Harvard graduates?
373. Homonyms are words that sound alike, though they are spelled differently. (Example: to, two, too) One pair of homonyms has meanings that are precisely opposite, and need not be stretched. What are the two spellings of this homonym?
374. If Mary has only one grandson, what relationship to her is her only son's daughter-in-law's husband?
375. How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all the letters only once in each word?
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