A man wakes up in the middle of the night and wants a snack, so he goes downstairs, gets out a sandwich and a glass of milk from the refrigerator. He eats the sandwich and drinks the milk, then turns out the lights and goes to bed. In the...
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Mindbender: What is it?
What starts on four legs, then on two, then on three? NEXT > by
Mindbender: Next vowel please
AEEOEEIEUE… what is the next letter? NEXT > by
Mindbender: The three suitors
A king is searching for a suitor for his daughter, so he collects the three smartest men in town. He sits them in a circle and tells them he is going to put a red...
Mindbender: three lights
A man is standing in front of three light switches and then there is a shut door. He is only allowed to go through the door once and there he will see three light bulbs. By turning any light bulbs on or off the man must be able to...
Mindbender: Park Lane Hotel
A man is pushing his car across London. He eventually arrives outside a hotel in Park Lane and there discovers he has become bankrupt. How has this happened? NEXT > by
Mindbender: The smuggler
Every other day, a cyclist rides a bicycle over the border between the border of the US and Mexico. a policeman always checks his satchel, but it holds nothing but a water bottle. Yet, he is smuggling something between the two countries. What is it? [Nothing is said about...
Mindbender: equation II
(Variation on another equation question) Remove one short line to make this correct: 5 + 5 + 1 = 546 NEXT > by
Mindbender: Sandtimers
You have two traditional hourglass type egg timers. One takes seven minutes for the sand to run through, the other takes 11 minutes. You want to boil an ostrich egg for exactly 15 minutes. How do you do it? and how soon after the start of the whole process...
Mindbender: How well do you know your physics?
Some silly questions for you, but you need to know a bit about physics to work these out. Mad Professor Zweistein has managed to build a car that has an unlimited to speed and incredible breaks that allow it to stop instantly. He only has one problem, the car...