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Put Your Thinking Cap on for These Brain Teasers

We all feel a little slow on the uptake sometimes, or a little foggy, if you will. We need to force our brains to focus and remember what it’s like to solve a problem, to really work for it.

If you’re feeling like that’s exactly what you need today, these 6 brain teasers are here to help!

6. The reversing ball.

5. The end of it all.

4. A black dog on a black road.

3. Which is correct?

2. Born at the same time, but not twins.

1. A poisoned drink.

Continue reading to check your answers!

Are you ready?

Really ready?

Really, really ready?

Okay, let’s go!

6.

ANSWER:

5.

ANSWER:

4.

ANSWER:

3.

ANSWER:

2.

ANSWER:

1.

ANSWER:

Did you solve them all?

If so, I’m impressed!

Come back another day for more riddles like these!

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Brain Teasers That Will Do Their Best to Trip You Up

There are all kinds of different levels of brain teasers, brain games, riddles, and the like out there on the internet. You start slow (because we all want to feel like we can solve them all) and slowly raise you game – like how the crossword puzzle gets harder every day of the week.

If you’re ready for some really tough brain teasers, we think these 13 totally deliver.

13. Bacon or Eggs?

Answer: Gwen likes foods that are five letters long.

12. Mary Must be Friends with Silly Sally

Answer: Mary’s friends prefer fruits with names that end with vowels.

11. A Tough One

Answer:

10. You Think You Can Do Math…

Answer:

9. What Time Is It?

Answer: Yes, between 5 and 5:30 p.m. EST.

8. Getting Into Shape

Answer: 200 push-ups.

7. A Mystery Diagram

Answer: 

6. Square Checkers

Answer: Six groupings.

5. The Sum of Letters

Answer: A = 13, B = 5, C = 17, D = 8, E = 2, F = 4, G = 3, H = 12.

4. Rearrange the Shapes

Answer:

3. One Doesn’t Fit

Answer: B

2. Take the Stairs

Answer: 840. Each number is found by multiplying the number that corresponds to its step by the number that precedes it.

1. How Many Times?

Answer: Twenty times. The digit 5 appears ten times as a last digit (5, 15, 25 … 95) and ten times as a first digit (50, 51, 52 … 59). 

I definitely couldn’t have solved all of these on my own.

If you solved them all, give yourself a big pat on the back (and maybe a cookie)!

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Brain Teasers That Will Keep Your Mind Sharp

Your brain is more fat than muscle, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to be kept in shape! The more you use it, the sharper it is, and brain teasers are a great and fun way to stay on top of your skills.

Here are 16 brain teasers that are ready to make you think pretty darn hard!

16. Missing Numbers

Answer: 3 and 7.

In each grid, add the top number to the one in the center to get the number on the left.

Then add the center number to the one on the bottom to get the number on the right.

15. Bees and Flowers

Answer: 4 bees and 3 flowers

14. Musical Measures

Answer:

13. Number Puzzles

Answer: 5. The numbers in each grid add up to 30.

12. Kangaroo Words

Answer: Dead, tutor, raucous, spot, amble.

11. Opposite Day

Answer:

LOST / FOUND
COOL / WARM
FAR / NEAR
HEAD / FEET
FRESH / STALE

10. Move Just Two

Answer: 

9. Jigsaw Find & Replace

Answer: 8

8. Happy Birthday!

Answer: Monday: John; Tuesday: George; Wednesday: Abe; Thursday: Millard; Friday: William.

7. Hidden Fruits

Answer: Mango (man goes), lemon (little money), plum (cheap lumber), ­lychee (really cheeky), pear (escape artist).

6. A-MAZE-ing!

Answer:

 

5. Simple Maths.

Answer: A = 1, B = 4, C = 8, D = 12, E = 17, F = 5, G = 16, H = 21, I = 18

4. Fun with Anagrams

Answer:

  1. Astronomer
  2. Debit card
  3. Garbage man

3. The Chip-In

Answer: $40 ($4 each split among ten friends or $5 each split among eight friends)

2. Don’t Break Your Brain

Answer: 4. The number at the center of each triangle is equal to the sum of the numbers at its base multiplied by the number at its apex. For example, (8 + 3) x 2 = 22.

1. One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Answer:

Did you solve them all? Do you feel smarter?

Thanks for playing along today!

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These 5 Riddles Will Tease Your Brain

If a riddle doesn’t make you think, make you want to tear a bit of hair out while you struggle with it, then make you feel like a genius when you solve it, is it even worth riddling?

We don’t think so, and neither does the mind behind @BRAINTWISTER on Twitter – so here are 5 of his or her best!

5. What you cannot see.

4. A real stumper!

3. One, two, three…

2. I need to figure out how this works!

1. Can you guess the question?

Continue reading when you’re ready to check your answers!

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6 Riddles That Just Might Trip You up

Riddles can be a good way to keep your mind sharp, have fun with your friends, and prove you’re just as smart as you know you are.

That goes double for these 6, which just might trip you up if you’re not careful.

So be careful…

6. A candle in the wind.

5. How about a cuppa?

4. Mr. Smith’s peacock.

3. The ping pong ball with the water in the pipe.

2. A man with a kind heart – and a pocket full of cash.

1. A riddle for the ages.

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6 Riddles That Are Meant to Tease Your Brain

You can find riddles all over social media – like these 6 from Twitter account @Braintwister, which posts new ones every day (so follow that account to get your daily riddle fix right into your feed)!

If you’re not a lover of riddles, well the 1) maybe you should get with the program??? and 2) this article might not be for you. Alternatively, stick around and you may find yourself becoming a lover of riddles! Wouldn’t that be a fun new change?

Regardless, here they are!

6. Friend and foe.

5. One word only.

4. Mmmm, candy.

3. Fingers and thumbs.

2. Hopefully all of them? Not a huge fan of casual hauntings over here.

1. If only the horse had its own opposable thumbs.

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These 4 Riddles Are Meant for Kids, But They’re Tough Enough to Stump Most Adults

Riddles are so much fun. Did you know that our brains actually reward us for solving riddles?  Your brain craves new exeriences and challenges (it’s what helped our ancestors get us to where we are). That’s why it’s so vital to stimulate your mind whenever possible. The 4 riddles below were designed for kids, but they’re actually tough enough to stump a lot of adults too. Think you’ve got the smarts to solve these?

#4. How can you make the equation correct by adding 1 line?

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