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The Brain Is A Muscle And These 30 Trick Questions And Riddles Are The Best Exercise To Train It
Are you the clever one in your group of friends? Do you know how to solve puzzles, think outside the box, and even do hard math in your head at the speed of light? You’re awesome! But no matter how smart you are or how many books on logic and reasoning you read, some questions can give the most brilliant brains a run for their money!
When it comes to trick questions and riddles, it’s easy to get stumped. That’s because tricky questions don’t just test your knowledge — they examine your ability to think critically and quickly. They require you to make assumptions, be creative, and apply what you know in new ways. In other words, they test your brainpower.
The trick questions below will challenge your mind and your intellect. Some are easy, some are hard, but all of them are fun. If you can answer them all, you might be smarter than Albert Einstein! Get your mind blown by these confusing questions and riddles, or send them to your friends’ group chat to confirm who’s the real smartass among you!
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#1
I’m so fragile that if you say my name, you’ll break me. What am I?
Silence.
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#2
How do you make the number one disappear? Add a ‘G’ and it’s gone!
karen snyder 3 years ago
Do I need to point out that the one has NOT disappeared? It's still there, it just has a "g" in front of it... These are more like popsicle stick jokes than brain exercises.
#3
If seven adults can eat seven cupcakes in seven minutes, how long would it take 30 adults to eat 30 cupcakes?
Seven minutes; one adult takes seven minutes to eat a cupcake.
Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
I can eat a cupcake and be reaching for the next one in seven seconds.
Mikey Snyder 3 years ago
I assumed the answer would be one minute for both questions. You have seven adults, and seven cupcakes. Each adult gets one cupcake. So then you have 7÷7 = 1. Meaning that each adult could eat one cupcake in one minute. Because if they were to eat them one person at a time or take a total of seven minutes. Not to mention the fact that for 30 people to eat 30 cupcakes, based on the logic of the answer, that would be a required order of 900 cupcakes. What kind of psychopath orders 900 cupcakes sets them in front of 30 people each of you WILL all eat 30 each. The way the question and answer are phrased sets of two totally different equations.
Brendan Roberts 3 years ago
It takes every individual person 7 minutes to eat a cupcake. So, if they all start at the same time, it will take only 7 minutes.
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deadly jam 3 years ago
I may be misunderstanding, but the way that it's worded, that math isn't right
#4
Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister? No, but since he is dead it would be hard to do so.
Lollipop Girl 3 years ago
In a zombie apocalypse, would it be legal to marry a zombie?? O.o
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What gets sharper the more you use it?
Your brain.
#6
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats? A river.
Tom 3 years ago
Was going to say - never heard of a murmuring river, but have heard of a babbling brook. But is there such a thing as a babbling river as opposed to a babbling brook? Or is a brook a river or a river a brook? I'm stopping now as I'm going down the rabbit hole.
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I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven.
#8
What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place? Stairs.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Yes, though only relative to a given point on planet Earth. Same place relative to the center of Earth's orbit? Forget about it.
#10
Which room has no walls? A mushroom.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
Don’t need to carve anything. A mushroom is a fungus. Fungi have cell walls.
Load More Replies... Kiryn Silverwing 3 years ago
Fun fact: mushroom cell walls are made of chitin, which is the same stuff insect exoskeletons are made of.
#11
If a monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?
None, coconut trees don’t grow bananas.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago
Yeah? But who says, bananas don't migrate to the coconut tree? They could be carried!
#12
What travels the world while stuck in one spot? A stamp.
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
My oh my you are a witty one. No one in the history of jokes has thought of that doozy, gee whiz!
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What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
Friends help you move, REAL friends help you move dead bodies.
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#14
What bird can lift the most weight? A crane.
#15
If you have one, you want to share it. But once you share it, you do not have it. What is it?
A secret.
#16
What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body? A coin.
#17
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footprints.
Jill Hojnacki 3 years ago
No. A step. You can leave a footprint, but unless you are casting it in plaster or carving it out of rock, you can’t take one.
#18
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks? Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound.
Gabe Parker 3 years ago
Lies... The feathers weigh more, the pound of bricks is just a bunch of rock but with a pound of feathers you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds
Alexander Rangga 3 years ago
Wait till they hit your head then you can tell which one is heavier
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago (edited)
Which weighs more? The trains passing through Grand Central Station in a year, or the trees cut down to print all U.S. currency in circulation?
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Trains don't pass through Grand Central because it's a terminal station.
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Anthony Dickens 3 years ago
This would be a trick question if one of the items were gold. Yes gold and other things are weighted in pounds. Though gold is weighted in "Tory pounds, 12oz. To the pond (if memory serves)
#19
What moves faster: heat or cold?
Heat because you can always catch a cold.
The pizza girl is here! 3 years ago
Yeah but depends if you mean faster as speed or as getting from point a to point b in a smaller period of time
Load More Replies... Daniel Yamada 3 years ago
Cold does not move. "Cold" is a relative terminology, it is not a form of energy like heat.
#21
Thanks to me, you can see straight through the wall. What am I?
A window.
#22
What can you hold without touching it at all? A conversation.
#23
What goes up as soon as the rain comes down?
An umbrella.
#24
What’s something that has a lot of problems not many people are eager to solve? A math book.
#25
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor and not crack it?
No problem, because concrete floors are very hard to crack.
#26
What has a spine but no bones? A book.
#27
What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and Dinner.
Cody 3 years ago
But... You can have leftovers from last night's dinner as today's breakfast...
Dick Fletes 3 years ago
You can break fast with any meal of the day, especially if you didn't have breakfast
#28
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs? A clock.
Puppeteer Saint 3 years ago
If the clock has no legs then how does time keep getting away from me? Oh yeah.. Time flies
#29
Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it? Advice.
#30
What can be broken but never held?
A promise.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago
This is wrong! The person who wrote this must have have issues with responsibility.
#31
If you were running a race and passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now? Second place.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Not necessarily true. I could be two laps down, pass the second (perhaps while he had a spin at Arnage) and there would be no change in position.
#33
A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come? She fell off the bottom step.
#34
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible? His horse is named Friday.
#35
How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived? The two survivors were married.
#36
Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday? Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago (edited)
We haven't eaten in three whole days! Yes, yesterday, today and tomorrow. #StanLaurelsBirthday
#37
What belongs to you but gets used by everyone else more than you? Your name.
#39
What’s as big as an elephant but weighs absolutely nothing? Its shadow.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago (edited)
Well, to be exact, a shadow does not have weight, but an object does weigh more when it has a shadow, because of radiation pressure from the photons hitting it. So the difference between the two numbers could be called the "weight" of the shadow. https://blazetrends.com/how-much-does-my-shadow-weigh/?amp
#40
Beth’s mother has three daughters. One is called Lara, the other one is Sara. What is the name of the third daughter? Beth.
#41
A woman pushes her car to a hotel and then proceeds to tell the owner that she is bankrupt. Why? She is playing Monopoly.
#42
A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long will it be until three rungs are covered? Never. The boat rises as the tide goes up.
#43
What gets wetter the more it dries? A towel.
#44
What’s greater than God and more evil than the devil. Rich people want it, poor people have it. And if you eat it, you’ll die? Nothing.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago
That's the second (the other was the River one) that looks like it was taken straight out of the Hobbit. This one I am sure is.
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
There is nothing greater than God, or more evil than the Devil? What am I? Chopped liver?
#46
What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is all the time? A widow.
#47
I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest girl can hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I? Breath.
#48
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years? The letter M.
#49
What has a neck but no head? A bottle.
#50
I wave, even if you don’t say hello. What am I? A flag.
#53
If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first? The match.
#54
If you spell “sit in the tub” s-o-a-k, and you spell “a funny story” j-o-k-e, how do you spell “the white of an egg”? E-G-G W-H-I-T-E
#55
If Mrs. John’s one-story house is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs? There are no stairs.
Lorna Anne Skinner Emmons 3 years ago
But there might be a porch stoop that leads to the front door. Some one story homes have them
#57
What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short.
#59
How many legs does an elephant have if you count his trunk as a leg? Four, because calling the elephant’s trunk a leg does not make it one.
#61
If you build a fort, drive a Ford, and fill out a form, then what do you eat soup with? A spoon.
Kurtis Cobainus 3 years ago
I was actually gonna say fork lol, but you can eat soup with a fork
#62
If there are eight oranges in a bag and you take away two, how many do you have? Two.
#63
What’s something that gets wetter the more it dries? A paper towel.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
This assumes that you have a wet spot that you're trying to wipe up with a paper towel. The paper towel gets wetter as you dry the wet spot.
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What never asks a question but gets answered all the time? Your cellphone.
#66
What word would you use to describe a man who does not have all his fingers on one hand? Normal, because people usually have half their fingers on one hand.
#67
What starts with “e” and ends with “e” but only has one letter in it? An envelope.
#68
If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where do they bury the survivors? Survivors aren’t buried!
#69
If it takes eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men? No time, because the wall is already built.
#70
What two keys can’t open any door? A monkey and a donkey.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
I'm sure the donkey could open a door if it wanted to. Whether or not you would be able to close it again is a different story.
#72
How did the boy kick his soccer ball ten feet, and then have it come back to him on its own? He kicked it up.
#73
A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. “This boy is my son,” the doctor said. But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How could this be? The doctor was the boy’s mom.
#74
How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet? He is bald.
#75
If an electric train is moving north at 100mph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10mph, which way does the smoke blow? An electric train has no smoke.
#77
What can run but not walk? Rain drops.
#79
“The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying? Neither one, because the accountant was his sister.
#80
How can the pocket of your pants be empty, but still have something in it? When the something is a hole.
#81
What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t actually alive? A glove.
#82
Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one slice of pizza, yet only three slices were eaten. How’s that possible? The group included a grandmother, her daughter and her daughter’s daughter.
#83
A man dressed in all black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly, a large black car with no lights on comes around the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the car’s driver know he was there? It was day time.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
This gave you the impression that it was night time. A black car would be harder to see than any other color at night.
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Robert, my neighbor, a forty-five-year-old blacksmith is seven feet tall, and eats all day long. What does he weigh? Iron.
#85
There are three important rooms in a house. The first one is filled with money. The second one is filled with important papers. The third one is filled with jewelry. One day all of these rooms burst into fire. Which room did the policemen put out the fire in first? None of them, because policemen do not put out fires; firemen do.
#86
On a Sunday morning, the oldest girl in a family was murdered. The father was reading the paper, the mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, and the girl’s brother was playing video games. Uncle George was visiting and was out getting the mail. Who murdered the girl? Uncle George. Mail isn’t delivered on Sundays.
Sportsgal 3 years ago
George isn't necessarily a murderer...he could be senile and have forgotten what day it was...OR, he could be getting yesterday's mail from the box! Just sayin'...🤣😉
Nemo 3 years ago
I'm not saying that George didn't do it but there still is a whole world of people out there. I think the creepy stalker did it
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What’s full of holes but can still hold liquid? A sponge.
#88
First you throw away my outside and cook the inside. Then you eat my outside and throw away my inside. What am I? Corn on the cob. Because you throw away the husk, cook the corn. Then you eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.
#90
How much dirt is there in a hole that is 3 feet deep, 6 feet long, and 4 feet wide? None, because a hole does not have any dirt inside.
#91
I have all the knowledge you have. But I’m so small, you can hold me in your fist. What am I? Your brain.
Donnie Mc00 3 years ago
a brain that fits into your fist?... that belongs to the person who came up with this one.
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
It was probably a translation. I'm sure it's meant to say hand.
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How many animals did Moses take into the ark? None because it was Noah who built and loaded the ark.
#93
What has three feet but can’t walk? A yardstick.
#94
If a rooster lays an egg on top of the barn roof, which way will it roll? It will not roll, because roosters do not lay eggs.
#96
How can you lift an elephant with one hand? You cannot, because you will never find an elephant with one hand.
#97
Name four days of the week that start with the letter “t”? Tuesday, Thursday, today, and tomorrow.
#98
What has four eyes but can’t see? Mississippi.
#99
Where is an ocean with no water? A map.
#100
How can a door be not a door? When it’s a jar.
#101
A girl leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two guys wearing masks. Who are the two guys? The catcher and the umpire.
#104
What has one eye but can’t see anything at all? A needle.
#105
If you threw a red rock into a green sea, what would it come back as? Wet.
#106
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? A palm.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago
Technically, the palm is part of your hand. So you can't carry it in your hand.
#107
The teacher asked the two girls who looked exactly like the following questions: a) Are you from the same family? b) Do you have the same parents? c) Were you born on the same day? They answered truthfully “yes” to those questions, and yet told the truth when they indicated they were not twins. How can this be? They were triplets.
#108
If Mr. Smith’s peacock lays an egg in Mr. Jones yard, who owns the egg? Peacocks don’t lay eggs.
#109
A truck driver is going down a one way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught? Because he was not driving! He’s walking on the sidewalk.
#110
Name the most recent year in which New Year’s came before Christmas. This year. New Year’s always comes before Christmas of the same year.
Bravo6Two 3 years ago
The first day of this year happened before Christmas of this year
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How many times can you subtract 10 from 100? Once. Next time you would be subtracting 10 from 90.
#112
Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb? No one. Ulysses Grant is interred in Grant’s tomb but not buried.
#113
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain on Earth? Mount Everest.
#115
What’s something that copies your looks but not your sounds? A mirror.
#118
What was the president’s name in 1990? The same as it is today.
Party Poison (They/She) 3 years ago
Either the name of the current president was the same in 1990, or the president of 1990 still has the same name today, because both didn't change their names.
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Every single person at a restaurant got sick, except for two people who were completely fine. How is that possible? The two people were a couple and, therefore, not single.
#120
A group of ten ostriches are in a field. If four of them take off flying, how many are left in the field? Ostriches can’t fly.
#122
You spot a boat full of people but there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible? Everyone on board is married.
#123
If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have? The four you took.
#124
How many seconds are there in a year? Twelve. January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd, etc.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
There are 51 in a month times 12 is 612. - Second/ Twenty second/ Thirty second
#125
Uncle Bill’s farm had a terrible storm and all but seven sheep were killed. How many sheep are still alive? Seven.
#126
What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with? A chair, a bed, and a toothbrush.
#127
Who is bigger, Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby? The baby, since he is a little Bigger.
#128
If you sit a cup on the table facing south while you are on the north side of the table, on which side is the cup’s handle? No matter which way the cup is turned, the handle is always on the outside.
#130
Why are 1968 pennies worth more than 1967 pennies? Because there is one more penny in 1968 pennies than in 1967 pennies.
#131
There are eight men sitting on a couch. Three legs break and six men leave. How many legs are remaining? Five; the legs of the two remaining men and the remaining couch leg.
#132
What is the maximum number of times a single page of a newspaper can be folded in half by hand? Once.
#133
I have teeth but can’t eat. What am I? A comb.
#134
If ten birds are sitting in a tree and a hunter shoots one, how many birds are left in the tree? None, because after one bird got shot, the rest flew away.
#135
What is the coldest country in the world? Chile.
#136
If the assistant captain of a sports team were to die, who would lead the team? The captain.
#137
Imagine you’re in a room that’s filling up with water quickly. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out? Stop imagining.
#138
A man lives on the 100th floor of an apartment building. On rainy days he rides the elevator all the way up. However, on sunny days, he goes half way and takes the stairs the rest of the way. Why? The man is short and can only reach the button for the 50th floor on the elevator. On rainy days, he uses his umbrella handle.
#139
You are driving a bus. When you begin your route, there is an old woman named Mrs. Smith and a young boy named Raymond are on the bus. At the first stop, the old woman leaves, and a salesman, named Ed, enters. At the next stop, Jack and his sister Jill get on, as well as three women with shopping bags. The bus travels fifteen minutes, then stops and Raymond gets off and a man and his wife get on. Next, a woman with a bird in a cage gets on the bus. What is the name of the bus driver? It’s you!
#140
If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it take before all the pills had been taken? 1 hour! Take the 1st pill right away, half an hour later take the 2nd and half an hour after that the 3rd.
What do you think ?
Tom Hanlin 3 years ago
The brain isn't a muscle at all, and those are completely standard trivia questions.
WatermelonTheDutchie 3 years ago
like its really more dad joke type stuff
Load More Replies... karen snyder 3 years ago
This is, seriously, a new low BP. I think I killed brain cells reading just ten of these.
Ein Steinbeck 3 years ago
What has four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?
William Hicks 3 years ago
A human crawls with 4 'legs' as a baby, walks on 2 until they get old, then uses a cane
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Keley Babs 3 years ago
Bored Panda, the brain is not a muscle, and put it as such in the headline of this article is very low for you
Keith Faulkner 3 years ago
How do you ruin the point of your own article about brain teasers? Put the answer in the reader’s peripheral vision only two lines down.
Tom Hanlin 3 years ago
The brain isn't a muscle at all, and those are completely standard trivia questions.
WatermelonTheDutchie 3 years ago
like its really more dad joke type stuff
Load More Replies... karen snyder 3 years ago
This is, seriously, a new low BP. I think I killed brain cells reading just ten of these.
Ein Steinbeck 3 years ago
What has four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?
William Hicks 3 years ago
A human crawls with 4 'legs' as a baby, walks on 2 until they get old, then uses a cane
Load More Replies... Keley Babs 3 years ago
Bored Panda, the brain is not a muscle, and put it as such in the headline of this article is very low for you
Keith Faulkner 3 years ago
How do you ruin the point of your own article about brain teasers? Put the answer in the reader’s peripheral vision only two lines down.
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