1260 Challenging Brain Teasers Page 54 of 84
Brain teasers for you to solve by using your best solving skills to find the correct answers.
796. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The orator was not __________ to the mood of the crowd he was addressing and thus was __________ by hecklers frequently.
797. A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a "quote." Work out the code to decipher the original words.
King Tut:
J UIJOL OJDLOBNFT BSF WFSZ EJTSFTQFDUGVM.
798. A group of math students were making copies of some documents when the copy machine broke. They fixed the machine, but noticed that the 100% button for reproducing copies was disabled. The were left with these choices:
5% 7% 125% 200%
Can you help them make a copy at 100% in six steps, using at least three different buttons at least once?
799. Take a word that means "work upwards," change one letter and find a word for a weather area.
Take a word that means "safe place," change one letter and find a word for a kind of bird.
Take a word for a piece of furniture, change one letter and find a set of linked pieces.
800. There are four numbers that are equal to the sum of the cubes of their digits. Below are three of them. What is the missing equation?
153 = 1 cubed + 5 cubed + 3 cubed
370 = 3 cubed + 7 cubed + 0 cubed
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407 = 4 cubed + 0 cubed + 7 cubed
801. What one three-letter word can be added to each group of letters below to make a new word? A different word is used for each line.
1) _________DLE TOU_________
2) H___________ __________NA
3) __________TERY
802. Here is an unusual paragraph. Can you figure why a paragraph is so unusual? See if you can guess why.
803. There are 4 people that need to walk across a bridge in the middle of the night. The bridge will only hold a maximum of 2 people at a time and each time the bridge is crossed a flashlight is needed to guide the way. The 4 people only have 1 flashlight. They are late for an appointment and all 4 people must be on the other side of the bridge in 17 minutes. To make things even more difficult, each person has a different walking rate. One person can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another person can cross the bridge in 2 minutes, another in 5 minutes and the last one in 10 minutes. How do all 4 people get across the bridge in 17 minutes using 1 flashlight?
804. A bridge spans a ravine that is a mile deep. The bridge will only support a capacity of 150 pounds. How does a man weighing 145 pounds, pick up 3 balls each weighing 2 pounds and get across the bridge? If the man tries to carry the 3 balls across the bridge he will surely fall to his death ( 145 pounds + 6 pounds = 151 pounds ). He manages to get the 3 balls and himself across the bridge in only 1 trip. How?
805. In what field or profession would you find the following terms?
caries gutta-percha eugenol calculus
806. Unscramble the letters below to name the author who said, "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
TOE EGG OILER
807. For Easter, the local candy store held a contest to judge the number of large Easter eggs in a bowl. Bill guessed 35, Joe guessed 29, Ann guessed 28, Sam guessed 33 and Mike guessed 30. One was correct. One was off by 5, one by 1, one by 2 and one by 3. Who was right?
808. The following 23 letters can be anagrammed into a nine-word sentence that says I would prefer to be an unseen spectator.
A A B D E E E F H I I K L L L L N O O T T W Y
809. Here's an alphametric, where each letter stands for a number between 0 and 9. No word can begin with a letter that has 0 as a value. What are the numbers?
PART
x 4
TRAP
810. The names of 9 people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you find them? (the letters are in consecutive order.)
There are many annual events noted in the calendar.
