Overton Park Brain Teasers

A clerk at a butcher is 6 feet tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks.

Before Mt Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?

What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

Take off my skin--I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?

What has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs?

A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?

There are 14 fish and 8 drown. How many fish are there now?

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?

Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape?

There are 25 lit candles on a cake and you blow out 15. How many candles are on the cake now?

What goes up but never comes down?

I’m full of keys, but I can’t open any doors. What am I?

What can run but can't walk?

There are 5 apples and you take 3. How many do you have?

What gets broken without being held? 

How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide?

What gets more wet the more it dries?

What belongs to you but yet is used more by others than yourself?

What is always coming but never comes?

How many months have 28 days?

If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what will it become?