50 Brain Teasers
Some of the brain teasers are based on words, numbers, shapes or patterns. Others involve riddles, jokes or trivia. Some of them have more than one possible answer, so you can try to find alternative solutions. The answers are given at the end of the article but try not to peek until you have given your best shot. Ready to challenge your mind? Let’s begin!
- What word begins and ends with an ‘e’ but only has one letter?
- What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
- What can travel around the world while staying in one spot?
- What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
- What has many keys but usually only one or two locks?
- What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
- What invention lets you look right through a wall?
- What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
- I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
- This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it.
- What has many teeth but can’t bite?
- What is cut on a table, but is never eaten?
- What can you catch but not throw?
- I have keys, but no locks and space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
- This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What am I?
- What is always coming but never arrives?
- What can you keep after giving it to someone?
- What has a neck but no head?
- What has to be broken before you can use it?
- I have no life, but I can die, what am I?
- What can run but never walk, has a mouth but never talk, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
- What can fill a room but take up no space?
- What gets wetter as it dries?
- What goes up and down but doesn’t move?
- What can you make that no one, not even you can see?
- What has one eye but cannot see?
- What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
- What has a spine but no bones?
- What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years?
- What is made of water but if you put it into water it will die?
- What has a face, two hands, and a tail, but no body?
- What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
- What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
- What has no legs but can do a split?
- What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
- What has words, but never speaks?
- What can you serve but never eat?
- What is full of holes but still holds water?
- What is always running but never moves, has no mouth but has a powerful roar?
- What can fly but has no wings?
- What is at the end of a rainbow?
- What is so delicate that even mentioning it might break it?
- What can you not keep until you give it?
- What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
- What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years?
- What is it that lives if it is fed, and dies if you give it a drink?
- What can you never eat for breakfast?
- What has a tongue but cannot talk, gets around a lot but cannot walk?
- What kind of room has no doors or windows?
- What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Answers
- Envelope
- Silence
- A stamp
- A clock
- A keyboard
- An artichoke
- A window
- A promise
- A bank
- Your name
- A comb
- A deck of cards
- A cold
- A keyboard
- Your breath
- Tomorrow
- Your word
- A bottle
- An egg
- A battery
- A river
- Light
- A towel
- The temperature
- Noise
- A needle
- A glove
- A book
- The letter M
- Ice
- A coin
- Your left hand
- A blackboard
- A banana
- Trouble
- A book
- A volleyball
- A sponge
- A river
- Time
- The letter W
- Silence
- Your word
- A road
- The letter M
- Fire
- Lunch or dinner
- A shoe
- A mushroom
- Your breath
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