Do Not Add E
Add a single letter at the end to create a meaningful word. You CANNOT add the letter E.
S E Q U E N C _
SOLUTION
You should add the letter F above the underscore to create the letter E and get the word SEQEUNCE.
Difficulty: Medium
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1 2 3 4 5 ?
Can you guess what the question mark should be replaced with? The answer is not 6.
| 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 | ? |
SOLUTION
The missing symbol is R, as in a car’s gears.
Hidden Objects Birds
Can you find the bird with the party hat?
SOLUTION
The solution is shown below.
Rabbits, Owls, and Bears
If:
- RABBIT → FROG
- OWL → WOLF
- BEAR → SHEEP
- MOOSE → COW
then BUCK → ?
SOLUTION
The answer is CHICKEN.
RABBIT sounds like the noise a FROG makes, OWL sounds like the noise a WOLF makes, BEAR sounds like the noise a SHEEP makes, and MOOSE sounds like the noise a COW makes. Since BUCK sounds like the noise a CHICKEN makes, that’s the answer.
Get the Car
If you make a CORRECT statement, you will get either a lollipop or a chewing gum. If you make a FALSE statement, you will get either a chocolate or a car. What statement should you make in order to get the car?
SOLUTION
You should say “I will receive a chocolate”. This statement cannot be correct, since if it was, you would get a lollipop or a chewing gum, not a chocolate. Therefore, you will get the car.
Pun Riddles
- Why do people go to the corner of the room when they are cold?
- Why was everyone afraid of Albert Einstein’s brother, Frank?
- What subject does a witch teach at school?
- What room can’t a skeleton enter?
- What rock group has only four members and none of them sing?
- What has two butts and kills people?
- How many tickles does it take to make a squid laugh?
- What do you call a squad of babies?
- What is a geologist’s favorite music genre?
- What’s blue and not very heavy?
SOLUTION
- Because it is 90 degrees there.
- Because he was Frank-Einstein, a monster.
- Spell-ing.
- The living room.
- Mount Rushmore.
- An assassin.
- Ten-tickles.
- An infantry.
- Rock.
- Light blue.
Elemental Puzzles
Below each of the following Venn diagrams there are seven tiles consisting of two letters. Place each tile in a different region so that the four tiles in each circle can be rearranged to solve the corresponding clue.
SOLUTION
The solutions are shown below.
Discs, Planets, and Time
Which of the following is the odd one out and why?
- CD
- Venus
- Clock
- DVD
- Mars
- Watch
SOLUTION
The answer is Mars, since it spins counter-clockwise. All the other objects spin (or contain elements that spin) clockwise.
Wacky Wordies 1
Can you figure out what phrases and sayings are represented in the Wacky Wordies below?
SOLUTION
The answers are:
- Stacked deck
- Life of ease
- Holy mackerel!
- Straw vote
- Inflated ego
- Sloppy joes
- Rule of thumb
- T-squares
- Inverted pyramid
- Spinal cord
- Spring fever
- Checkered past
- “Me and My Shadow”
- Writer’s block
- Monograph
- Hollywood and Vine
- Striped bass
- Coconuts
- Knotty pine
- Bag of pipes
- Dotted Swiss
- Oliver Twist
- Comic strips
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Chief of staff
- Mini stereo
- Test grid
- Old English sheepdog
- All-star game
- “Amazing Grace”
