Here are 20 brain teasers along with their answers:
- I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead/graphite. - I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard. - The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps. - What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: A artichoke. - I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo. - What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age. - I am not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire. - What is full of holes but can still hold water?
Answer: A sponge. - What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove. - What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Answer: Your name. - The more you take away, the larger it becomes. What is it?
Answer: A hole. - You see a house with two doors. One door leads to certain death, and the other leads to freedom. There are two guards, one in front of each door. One guard always tells the truth, and the other lies. You don’t know which guard is which, and you can only ask one question to one guard. What question should you ask to determine which door leads to freedom?
Answer: You should ask one guard, “If I were to ask the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would they say?” Then, choose the opposite door of what the guard answers. - What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano. - I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke. - What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin. - What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M’. - I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
Answer: A map. - I have keys but no locks. I have a space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard. - I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle. - You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
Answer: Your breath.
I hope you enjoy these brain teasers!
They can be a fun way to challenge your mind and think outside the box.
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