Kuykendall Brain Teasers

Question 1

There are 10 lit candles on a cake and you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?

Accepted Answer

All 10

Question 2

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Accepted Answer

Towel

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

3

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

None. How is there dirt in a hole?...

Question 5

Solve for the missing value.

Accepted Answer

36

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Stop imagining!

Question 7

What is heavier: 100kg of gold or 100kg of feathers?

Accepted Answer

They are the same

Question 8

How many months have 28 days?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 9

What is always coming but never comes?

Accepted Answer

The Future, Tomorrow

Question 10

Solve for the missing value.

Accepted Answer

20

Question 11

If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place are you in now?

Accepted Answer

2nd

Question 12

What goes up but never comes down?

Accepted Answer

Age

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

14 fish

Question 14

Start at the center, add 5 tiles along the path (NO go back). What is lowest possible score?

Accepted Answer

30

Question 15

What is the value of the square?

Accepted Answer

8

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

An onion

Question 17

What gets broken without being held?

Accepted Answer

Silence, A promise

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

When did roosters lay eggs?

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Wet

Question 20

A clerk at a butcher is 161.8cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Accepted Answer

Meat

Question 21

How many squares are in the 2nd figure?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 22

What is full of holes but still holds water?

Accepted Answer

Sponge

Questions 22