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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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I’m so fragile that if you say my name, you’ll break me. What am I?
Silence.
How do you make the number one disappear?
Add a ‘G’ and it’s gone!
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.
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.
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
A river.
I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven.
What goes up and down, but always remains in the same place?
Stairs.
What can one catch that is not thrown?
A cold.
Which room has no walls?
A mushroom.
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.
If you have one, you want to share it. But once you share it, you do not have it. What is it?
A secret.
What has a head, a tail, but does not have a body?
A coin.
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footprints.
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither. They both weigh exactly one pound.
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
What moves faster: heat or cold?
Heat because you can always catch a cold.
What goes up but never ever comes down?
Your age.
Thanks to me, you can see straight through the wall. What am I?
A window.
What can you hold without touching it at all?
A conversation.
What goes up as soon as the rain comes down?
An umbrella.
What’s something that has a lot of problems not many people are eager to solve?
A math book.
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.
What has a spine but no bones?
A book.
What are two things you can never eat for breakfast?
Lunch and Dinner.
What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?
A clock.
If the clock has no legs then how does time keep getting away from me? Oh yeah.. Time flies
Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?
Advice.
What can be broken but never held?
A promise.
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The brain isn't a muscle at all, and those are completely standard trivia questions.
This is, seriously, a new low BP. I think I killed brain cells reading just ten of these.
What has four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?
A human crawls with 4 'legs' as a baby, walks on 2 until they get old, then uses a cane
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Bored Panda, the brain is not a muscle, and put it as such in the headline of this article is very low for you
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.
The brain isn't a muscle at all, and those are completely standard trivia questions.
This is, seriously, a new low BP. I think I killed brain cells reading just ten of these.
What has four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk?
A human crawls with 4 'legs' as a baby, walks on 2 until they get old, then uses a cane
Load More Replies... Bored Panda, the brain is not a muscle, and put it as such in the headline of this article is very low for you
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.
