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Brain Teaser – Leaves and branches

Brain Teaser – Leaves and branches...

What has leaves, but no branches? ANSWER: A...
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Brain Teaser – Traveling with crazy relations

Brain Teaser – Traveling with crazy relation...

You have been invited to go on a road trip with your mother’s brother’s brother-in-law. You have no aunts in the family. Who has invited you to travel with them? ANSWER: Because you have no aunts, this would be your uncle’s brother-in-law on your mom’s side. Your uncle would only have one brother-in-law (he may have many sisters-in-law). The brother-in-law would have to be your...
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Brain Teaser – Doll prices

Brain Teaser – Doll prices...

Karli Jo has two dolls. One of the dolls is very expensive and costs $100 more than her second doll. Altogether, both dolls cost $101. How much does each of the dolls cost individually? ANSWER: The expensive doll is $100.50 while the cheaper doll is just...
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Brain Teaser – Pennies a day

Brain Teaser – Pennies a day...

Would you rather have five million dollars all at once or have someone give you one penny today and then double the number of pennies that you have each day for just 30 days? ANSWER: The mathematical formula for this is the starting amount (s) times the rate (r) raised to the power of the number of days (d). The formula looks like s*r^d. In this case it would be .01*2^30 which equals: $10,737,418.24. Over $10 million to...
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Brain Teaser – North Pole Blindfold

Brain Teaser – North Pole Blindfold...

Your latest road trip has taken you to the North Pole.  You get out and put on a blindfold.  You spin around two times.  Then you take 10 steps forward.  Finally you turn 90 degrees to the left.  What do you see? ANSWER: You don’t see anything because you are...
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Math Pattern Puzzle 20100502

Math Pattern Puzzle 20100502...

What is the next number in the series of numbers below: 1, 4, 16, 64, 256, ? ANSWER: 1,024. These are all exponents of the number...
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Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser

Soda Killer? – Brain Teaser...

Dihydrogen monoxide is and chemical compound that can kill you if you ingest too much of it, corrode metals, dissolve some solids, is part of acid rain, and is used by many industrial chemical plants. However, it is also a very important ingredient to most soda pops. How can this be? ANSWER: Dihydrogen monoxide is the chemical name for H2O – what we call...
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Kitchen Teaser – Dry Spaghetti

Kitchen Teaser – Dry Spaghetti...

How would it be possible to make a straight piece of dry spaghetti into a circular piece of dry spaghetti without breaking the pasta? ANSWER: Cook the spaghetti first, form it into a circle, then dry it...
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Math Teaser – Labeled Cans

Math Teaser – Labeled Cans...

Aliece is packing up a bunch of cans for the family camping trip. When she comes to the last few cans in the pantry, she notices that the labels have fallen off of four of the cans in the pantry. The four labels are all different. If Aliece were to glue the labels on to the cans at random, what is the probability that she will put the correct labels on only three of the four cans? ANSWER: There is zero possibility.  If...
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Rebus Teaser #3

Rebus Teaser #3...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Top...
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Too many candy bars

Too many candy bars...

On a long road trip your parents pass back a bucket of 23 candy bars for all of the passengers. You take seven of the candy bars. Before you pass it on to your sister, you decide that you want a few more so you take half of what’s left in the bucket. You start to feel guilty right away, so you put back one third of the candy bars that you had taken out of the bucket. How many candy bars are now in the...
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Rebus Teaser #2...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Peace on...
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Rebus Teaser #1

Rebus Teaser #1...

Rebus Puzzles are popular word picture puzzles with hidden meanings. You use their pictures and words to try to solve the meaning. They are often common phrases. ANSWER: “Over the river and through the...
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