1260 Challenging Brain Teasers Page 80 of 84
Challenging brain teasers and other types of riddles and conundrums to mess with you mind. If you really think you can solve all 15 of these, better get started it might take awhile.
1186. You have just found $2.05 in coins in an old coat. Interestingly, there are the same number of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. How many of each coin are there?
1187. One of the words below is the odd word out. Which one is it and why?
1. Acres 2. Fines 3. Rates 4. Veils 5. Tapes
1188. The speed of one train is 6 mph slower than the speed of a second train. The first train travels 198 miles in the same time it takes the second train to travel 264 miles. What is the speed of the first train?
1189. What one three-letter word can be added to the blanks below to make a new word in each case?
P ____ ED
R ____ E
GR____
S____H
T____
1190. A cube measuring six inches on each side is painted blue all over and then sliced into one-inch cubes. How many of the smaller cubes have blue on three sides? How many of the cubes have no blue on them?
1191. Each sentence below can be completed with a word that is spelled the same but pronounced differently (different words for each sentence).
"Don't you want to ________ this interesting article or have you already ________ it?"
The guide was able to _______ the mining party to a good supply of ________.
1192. Jim, Jack and Joe had collected baseball cards for years and each had the same number of cards. They decided to sell them together. Each sold half of what he had in the first hour. Then they had a few more sales at their booth before closing. Jack had one-fourth of his originals left, Jim had one-half of his originals and Joe had two left, one-eighth of his originals. How many did they start out with together?
1193. Here's a trickle-down puzzle. Change one letter at a time to form a good English word in each step to arrive at the bottom.
KEEP
_____
_____
_____
HOLD
1194. What comes next in the following sequence?
Fifth, fourth, third, second, first, _____?
1195. My father is three times as old as my sister, who is twice as old as my brother, who is twice as old as our nephew. The total of all ages is divisible by five and less than 100. How old is my father?
1196. Stupid is an interesting word because it contains three consecutive letters of the alphabet: stu. Can you think of a word that has four consecutive letters of the alphabet?
1197. Which state of the contiguous 48 states has a point that is farther north than any other of the contiguous 48 states?
1198. Jack is a small jeweler located in the heart of Boston. On this special day all his jewels but two are diamonds, and all his jewels but two are emeralds. How many diamonds and emeralds does he have?
1199. Using any or all of the mathematical symbols +, -, x and/or parentheses between the digits to make 579.
1 2 3 4 5 6 = 579
1200. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
The boys in the apple-eating contest knew the ________ because they counted the _______.
