Brain Teasers

Can you solve the Brain Teasers below? Give it a try

1. If three hens lay three eggs in three days, how many eggs does a (statistical) hen lay in one day?

2. Mary’s father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

3. There are 2 robbers that go into a store and rob it. After the robbery, they each get 12 months, but they didn’t get caught. How come?

4. There was a guy who had a Fox, a Chicken, and a bag of Grain. He had to cross a river to get back home, but he could only take one item with him at a time. He could only take the fox, or the grain, or the chicken. Well, if you leave a chicken and a fox on one side of the river while taking the bag of grain across, the fox will eat the chicken, same thing with the chicken and the grain. Can’t leave those two alone or the chicken will eat the grain. How do you get them all across the river safely?

5. Find the next number in the sequence 12, 20, 40, 72, 116, 172 ?

6. What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?

7.  What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

8.  It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?

9. I’m lighter than air but a million men can’t lift me. What am I?

10.  You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?