brain teasers with answers

How can you make 77 into 1 by adding just one line? AnswerYou put a line in between them to make it a fraction that equals 1: 7/7 = 1

Four men took one day to pick all the apples from the tree. How long would it take for eight men to take all the apples from the same tree? AnswerThe eight men wouldn’t have any apples to pick because the four men already picked all the apples.

A man was in trouble due to an arrest. However, he didn’t break the law in any way and he was not falsely accused of doing so! How is this possible? AnswerHe had a cardiac arrest!

Clumsy Fred dropped a book and it fell open to two pages. If the product of the two page numbers is 90, then what are the pages showing? AnswerEither Fred can defy perspectives and see both sides of a single sheet of paper or the book was made wrong. The answer would be pages 9

This is a great pub/bar trick!How do you hold six pint glasses in such a way that you can pour a perfect pint into one of them, without stacking them, or getting your fingers wet? AnswerTurn one glass upside down and put it on a table. Put five glasses around it in a circle, right

There was a table with 4 different kinds of fruit—3 apples , 6 oranges, 2 mangos and 5 pears. Each kind of fruit was in a different coloured bowl—red, blue, green and yellow.You know that :The blue bowl does not have apples.The red bowl does not have 5 pieces of fruit.The green bowl does not

Alexa and Maria never agree on anything. One day their mothers told them to eat out together. Alexa sees that there are five restaurants near by. In less than a minute, they decide. How did they decide so quickly?The answer is not because they like the same restaurant. AnswerOnly one was open.

A student who has never before got any grade except for A’s tells his father he got an F in Maths. At first, the man frowns. Then the student explains why he said this in a two-word explanation, and the father laughs. What day is it? AnswerApril 1.It’s April Fools Day. The explanation was “April

You’re on the road, in traffic. Your destination is only 100 yards away. The traffic isn’t moving. You can’t just leave everything in the middle of the street. You need to be there in 2 minutes. How do you get there? AnswerYou don’t have a car, so you just run there! The street is full

There are three measuring cups on a table with volumes of 1-cup, 1/2-cup, and 1/4-cup. There is also a 4-cup mixing bowl that is completely empty and leak proof.Water is poured into the cups, and they are all filled to the brim.All three measuring cups are then emptied into the large mixing bowl, without spilling

When you roll two dice, what is the probability that the sum of the four numbers on the two faces that face down (to the table or ground) and the two faces that face up is 14? Answer1100%The sum of the numbers of the opposite faces of every die is 7.

0+0-0+1-1+2-2+3-3+4-4+5-5+6-6+7-7+8-8+9-9+10-10+11-11+12-12+13-13+14-14+15-15+16-16+17-17+18-18+19-19+20-20+21+22-22+23-23+24-24+25-25+26-26+27-27+28-28+29-29+30-30+31-31+32-32+33-33+34-34+35-35+36-36+37-7+38-38+39-39+40-40+41-41+42-42+43-43+44-44+45-45+46-46+47-47+48-48+49-9+50-50=?? Answer21If you read carefully you would notice it was 0+0-0+1-1+…+20-20+21+22-22+…+50-50=??

There were 7 fish in the fish tank. 3 fish were drowned.How many are left? AnswerFish don’t get drowned!

Can a man legally marry his widow’s sister in the state of Spain? AnswerNo, because he’s dead.

There are two vehicles on a one-way, single-lane road. There is a grand luxury limo driving at 50 mph.Then, only 50 feet away, there is a sports car travelling at 70 mph. Assuming the vehicles are real and working, and neither of them stop, slow down, or pull over, how does the sports car avoid