BRAIN TEASERS!

Brain teasers challenge your brain with lateral thinking: a type of reasoning that taps creativity, imagination and contemplation to solve difficult problems. We’ve compiled 20 classic brain teasers for you below. Give your brain a workout and see how many you can get correct!

18. How many triangles can you count in this image?

1. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

2. What four-letter word can you write in capitals forward, backward or upside down, and can still read from left to right?

3. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?

4. A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

5. A family has two parents and six sons. Each of the sons has one sister. How many people are in the family?

6. Forward, I am very heavy to lift. Backward, I am not. What am I?

7. What can you keep after giving it to someone?

8. The more of these you take the more you leave behind. What are they?

9. What gets wet while drying?

10. I can run, but not walk. I have a mouth, but cannot talk. I have a bed, but I cannot sleep. What am I?

11. How can 8 + 8 = 4?

12. Guess the next three letters in the series GTNTL.

13. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

14. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?

15. What is chicken,

19. Without lifting your pencil, can you connect all of the dots below with four straight lines?

20. Can you move just TWO toothpicks and create SEVEN squares?

/ cat and

/4 goat?

16. What is full of holes but can still hold water?

17. What is a onesyllable word that becomes a threesyllable word when you add just one letter?