Mind Bogglers
Thinking Puzzles
Tutor Time
What do you put on a table,
cut and then pass around,
but would never actually
eat?
A deck of cards
If there were eight crows on
a wall near a sheep pen and
the farmer shot one. How
many crows would be left?
One, the dead one. The rest
would have flown away.
I’m inside, half way up a
building that has no
windows or balconies, yet
I’ve got an incredible view
of the city around me. What
sort of building am I?
A multi story car park
What is impossible to hold
for half an hour, yet weighs
virtually nothing?
Your breath.
A woman has three
daughters who in turn each
have three daughters. If
they all get together in one
room, how many pairs of
grandmothers and
granddaughters are there?
Three and nine.
Dave married two women
without getting divorced,
becoming a widower or
committing bigamy.
Explain?
Dave is a priest who
conducted two weddings.
What holds water but is full
of holes?
A sponge.
They can be made, laid
down, bent and broken
although its difficult to
touch them. What are they?
Rules.
An airplane carrying 60
Mexican lawyers to a
convention in Rio crashed and
landed directly on the border
between Colombia and
Venezuela and Brazil. Under
international law, where should
the survivors be buried?
You do not bury survivors.
The makers does not need
it, the buyer does not use
it, and the user uses it
without knowing. What is it?
A coffin.
Jenny works in a grocery
store, she only weighed 6
pounds when she was born
but now, aged 18, she is 5
foot ten inches tall with
measurements of 38 36.
What does she weigh?
Fruit and vegetables.
John and Jim fell asleep on
airbeds and got swept out
to sea. John was nearly
drowned, Jim was nearly
saved. Which of them a
week later donated a weeks
wages to the Lifeboat
Institute?
Jim; he was nearly drowned
but was actually saved
whereas John was nearly
saved but drowned.
Which would burn longer, a
short fat candle or a long,
thin, spirally, yellow one?
Neither – candles burn
shorter.
A woman watched her
husband plunge head first
down a deep ravine, she
returned home to find him
in the kitchen chopping
onions. How is this
possible?
Her husband was a
stuntman and she had been
watching him at work.
A carrot, a football scarf
and five buttons were found
in a field. If nobody placed
them there, how did they
get there?
They were the remains of a
snowman after a thaw.
If one man has three sacks
of corn on his back, and
another has four sacks on
his back, which of them has
the heaviest load?
The first: Three sacks is
heavier than four empty
sacks.
You enter a deserted house
late at night. Inside there is
an oil lamp, a stove of
wood, and a gas fire. You
only have one match, which
should you light first?
The match.
Two fathers and two sons
enter a shop and spend
£1.50 each, the shop
keeper takes £4.50. What
happened to the rest?
Only three men entered the
shop, a son, a father and a
grandfather, so only £4.50
was spent.
A father and a son were
involved in a car accident
and rushed to the hospital.
On seeing the unconscious
young boy, the surgeon
exclaimed @’h no, that’s my
son’. How can this be true?
The surgeon was the boys
mother.
A donkey was tied to a
6 yard rope. How did it
manage to eat a pile of
hay that was 50 feet
away without biting
through the rope?
The other end of the rope
wasn’t attached to
anything.