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There are fifteen puzzles/brain teasers for you here-the answers are at the bottom of this section but try and guess the answer b4 you look!!

Puzzles

1:What can you put up a chimney down but can't put down a chimney up?

2:A frog is at the bottom of a 30-foot well.Each hour he climbs up 3 feet and slips back 2 feet.How many hours does it take him to get out?

3:Two Indians sat in their wigwam. The shorter one was the taller one's son but the taller one was not the shorter one's father. How was this possible?

4:In a drawer I have five pairs of green socks and five pairs of blue socks. In the dark what is the smallest number of single socks i must take out to be sure of getting a matching pair?

5:The windows on all four sides of my house face north-how do you think this is possible?

6:A farmer was asked how many animals he had and he answered-they're all horses but two, all sheep but two and all pigs but two-how many animals did the farmer have?

7:Who is my father's only child's daughter's brother?

8:George and Mildred have seven daughters. Each of the daughters has a brother. How many are there in a family, including George and Mildred?

9:In which sport do the winners move backwards and the losers move forwards?

10:An Australian Aborigine can throw a boomerang so it comes straight back to him without hitting any obstruction. How can you do the same thing with an ordinary tennis ball?

11. 2 mothers and their 2 children go into a pizza place. They order three pizzas and they each have a pizza to themselves. How do they each get a whole pizza?

12. What crawls on all fours in the morning, walks on two legs in the afternoon and walks on three in the evening?

13. 4 men were going on a journey in their Jeep. The Jeep weighed 1 tonnes, they were travelling a distance of 100 miles and it took them 2 hours, 14 minutes to complete the journey. On the way they stopped twice, once for three men to get a drink and once to get petrol. In the Jeep they had 4 suitcases and one rucksack.
When they reached their destination they realised they had a flat tyre. How come they hadn't realised it earlier?

14.A man lived on the 33 level of a block of flats, one day he was going out to do his shopping. He took the lift down to the bottom floor and went out. 1 hour later he came back with 3 bags of shopping, got in the lift and took it to the 16 floor and walked the rest of the way up. Why didn't he take it to the top?

15. Romeo and Juliet were found dead in a room at the top of a tower. The tower was round, had no window in the room and the door was locked from the inside and had no door handle. They were lying on the floor, near them was water, smashed glass and a cat. How did they die?

16. A man was murdered on Sunday morning, as soon as his wife found him she called the police. They came and took the alibis of all the people in the house and immediately arrested the murderer. Who was it and how did they know? Here are their alibis...
The wife said she was sleeping, the cook said he was cooking, the gardener said he was gardening and the maid said she was collecting the mail.

17.
You must flee for your life to the end of a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, there are two doors and two robots. One door leads to certain death, one door leads to freedom. One robot can only tell lies, one robot can only tell the truth. You do not know which door is which or which robot is which. You can only ask the robots one question between them.
What question will you ask them and which door will you take?

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Answers:

1: An umbrella!

2: 28 hours

3:The taller one was the shorter one's mother

4:If i take out three socks two of them are sure to be a matching pair

5: My house must be built at the South Pole

6: Three animals-one horse, one sheep and one pig

7: My son

8:Ten-George, Mildred, their seven daughters and their son

9: Tug-of-war

10: Throw it straight up in the air!

11. It is a Grandmother, her daughter and the daughter's daughter. Both the Grandmother and the daughter are mothers. And both the daughter and daughter's daughter are children.

12. A human, they crawl in the morning of their life (when they are a baby), they walk on 2 legs when in the afternoon (when they are adults), and they walk on 3 legs in the evening (when they are elderly and use a walking stick).

13. The flat tyre was the spare tyre that had been in the boot of the car. When they unloaded their luggage they saw the flat.
More puzzles and brain teasers later!!!

14. The man was very short and could only reach the 16th button on the lift's wall.

15. Romeo and Juliet are fish.

16. The maid was the murderer, there is no mail on Sundays so she was obviously lying.

17. Turn to either of the robots. Ask it: "If I was to ask your companion which door led to freedom, which one would it say?" The robot will point to a door. Whichever one it points to, be sure to take the alternative one!

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