10 Brain Teasers That Will Leave You Stumped!

Solving brain teasers boosts brain power, keeps your memory strong, and entertains everyone to no end. See how many of these tricky puzzles for adults and teens you can figure out—without cheating[0x1f609]!

Brain teasers are more than just simple puzzles and riddles. Technically, a brain teaser is a type of puzzle or brain game, often involving literal thinking. That means to solve it, you’ll have to use a creative, less straight forward thought process and the solution won’t be right in front of you.

Below, you’ll find a collection of pictures and word brain teasers for all difficulty levels. Plenty of them aren’t easy, so make sure you have some time to really think about the correct answer.

The answers to these brain teasers are right below the question, so make sure you don’t scroll too far and cheat! How many can you get right?

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Brain Teaser 1
A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?

Answer: He’s playing Monopoly.

Brain Teaser 2
You are in a room that has three switches and a closed door. The switches control three light bulbs on the other side of the door. Once you open the door, you may never touch the switches again. How can you definitively tell which switch is connected to each of the light bulbs?

Answer: Turn on the first two switches. Leave them on for five minutes. Once five minutes has passed, turn off the second switch, leaving one switch on. Now go through the door. The light that is still on is connected to the first switch. Whichever of the other two is warm to the touch is connected to the second switch. The bulb that is cold is connected to the switch that was never turned on.

Brain Teaser 3
I left my campsite and hiked south for 3 miles. Then I turned east and hiked for 3 miles. I then turned north and hiked for 3 miles, at which time I came upon a bear inside my tent eating my food! What color was the bear?

Answer: White. The only place you can hike 3 miles south, then east for 3 miles, then north for 3 miles and end up back at your starting point is the North Pole. Polar bears are the only bears that live at the North Pole, and they are white.

Brain Teaser 4
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?

Answer: His son.

Brain Teaser 5
What is special about these words: job, polish, herb?

Answer: They are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized. 

Brain Teaser 6[0x1f638]
Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?

Answer: The catcher and the umpire. 

Brain Teaser 7
A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

Answer: The river was frozen.

Brain Teaser 8
In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?

Answer: The person was born in 2005 BC[0x1f605].

Brain Teaser 9
A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

Answer: An hourglass—It has thousands of grains of sand.

Brain Teaser 10(The last[0x1f609])!
What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?

Answer: It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.

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