1260 Challenging Brain Teasers Page 75 of 84
Brain teasers are a good way to train your brain into looking for all the possible solutions to a problem and here are a variety of brain teasers to test you.
1111. Which of the following is not an anagram for a name of a country?
NEAT GRAIN WALTZ RINSED CORN WASH
1112. If a bouquet of six tulips and eight daisies costs $10, but a bouquet of eight tulips and six daisies costs $11, how much does each flower cost?
1113. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters,can be used to complete the sentence below?
The _______ donors to the illegal charity felt that the recipients were _______ who had preyed upon them.
1114. Joan and Jane are sisters. Jean is Joan's daughter and 12 years younger than her aunt. Joan is twice as old as Jean. Four years ago, Joan was the same age as Jane is now, and Jane was twice as old as her niece. How old is Jean?
1115. Some letters have been removed from the names of the following American cities. Fill in the missing letters to find out where you are.
T _ L _ _ H _ _ S _ _
M _ R _ D _ _ _
_ I _ T _ B _ _ G _
W _ _ L _ A _ _ B _ R _
H _ B _ _ _ N
1116. If you anagram the letters in "The eyes," they can become "They see." What relevant words can you anagram from "The nudist colony."
1117. Find the six-digit number in which the first digit and the fourth digit make a two-digit sum, the two digits of which are the second and third; the fifth and sixth digits, added together, are half the fourth and the last digit is one-third the first.
1118. There are 53 bicycles, two chairs, one table, and a man who has been shot, in a room. Why was he shot?
1119. The names of three body organs are squashed together into one big word. All the letters are in the correct order. Can you name the three organs?
SSPTOLEMAKICHDNEENY
1120. Palindromic numbers read the same backward and forward, such as 4114. What is the smallest non-palindromic number whose square is palindromic?
1121. A car travels at a speed of 30 mph over a certain distance, and then returns over the same distance at a speed of 20 mph. What is the average speed for the total trip?
1122. Which letter comes next in the series?
A E C G E I G K I M K ?
1123. What are A and B in this mathematical expression?
79 = 15 x B to the A power + A x 2 to the A power
1124. Change the second letter of each pair of words below to create two new words. Then put the new letter on the line between them. When you have finished, you will have a new word, reading down. (Ex: bet ____ bat = bat a hat).
LINE _____ MATE
BLAND _____ CLIME
COST _____ MOST
BRAND _____ BROWN
1125. The local bottling plant recycles old bottles to make new ones at the rate of ten old ones to produce one new one. Remarkably, every bottle the plant produces gets recycled. If it produces 1,000 new bottles, how many bottles can be made in total?
