Challenging brain teasers for the whole family
What word begins with ‘e’, ends with ‘e’, yet contains just a single letter?
A lady describes the types of bees she saw in her garden one afternoon by saying “all the bees were honey bees, but two. All the bees were bumblebees but two. Also, all the bees were carpenter bees but two”.
How many bees did the lady see in total?
The owner of a fruit orchard has collected three barrels of fruit. There is one barrel of apples, one barrel of pears and one barrel that contains a mixture of apples and pears.
The barrels are all labelled. One label reads “apples”, another reads “pears” and the other reads “apples and pears”. Unfortunately, none of the three barrels are labelled correctly!
You can take out and look at just one piece of fruit from one of the barrels. How can you determine what each of the barrels contain?
The other two barrels will be labelled “apples” and “pears”. If the piece of fruit you looked at earlier was an apple, you can be sure that the barrel labelled “apples” will contain pears and the barrel labelled “pears” will contain both apples and pears.
If however the piece of fruit you looked at earlier was a pear, you can be sure that the barrel labelled “pears” will contain apples and the barrel labelled “apples” will contain both apples and pears.
I am an odd number. If you take away a letter from me, I become even. What number am I?
What word in the English language has its first two letters signify a male, its first three letters signify a female, its first four letters signify a great man, and it’s whole signify a great woman?
Daisy the bee was flying through the field when she came across a stone with the number 8,549,176,320 written on it. What is unique about the number?
It was midday and Honey the bee was flying along collecting nectar from the flowers. Suddenly Honey thought of a word. “This word reads the same forwards, backwards and upside down”, she exclaimed!
What word did Honey think of?