PUZZLES & Tricky Questions

Few brain teasers for you  & family!!
Try to solve as much as possible & post the answers.


1.      Using the BrainTracker grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the central P and no letter can be used twice in a word.

There is at least one nine letter word.

           

2.      Can you place the numbers 1 to 8 into the following grid. No two consecutive numbers can be directly next to each other either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
 

                                            

3  3.   The map below shows the street locations of a city. Position three police officers such that the entire length of every street can be seen by at least one officer.

44.    How many squares, of any size, can you find on this chess board which do not contain a Rook?

  
5. Expand the Following      

 

Example 

26 L of the A  = 26 Letters of the Alphabet

 Please try now..........

7 D of the W

7 W of the W

12 S of the Z

66 B of the B

52 C in a P (WJs)

13 S in the USF

18 H on a G C

39 B of the O T

5 T on a F

90 D in a R A

3 B M (S H T R)

32 is the T in D F at which W F

15 P in a R T

3 W on a T

100 C in a R

11 P in a F (S) T

12 M in a Y

13=UFS

8 T on a O

27 B in the N T

365 D in a Y

13 L in a B D

52 W in a Y

9 L of a C

60 M in a H

23 P of C in the H B

64 S on a C B

9 P in S A

6 B to an O in C

29 D in F in a L Y

15 M on a D M C

1000 Y in a M

6 B to an O in C      

                   6.        In which direc­tion is the bus pic­tured below traveling?

                                  

 

7.      How do you connect 4 dots arranged in a square with 3 lines? The challenge is as follows: Draw three straight line,You cannot lift your pencil,You can not cross over any lines, You must end on the same dot you start with.                                                         8.      Four men were arrested for a crime, but the jail is full and the jailer has nowhere to put them. He eventually comes up with the solution of giving them a puzzle so if they succeed they can go free but if they fail they are executed(shot dead).                                                          The jailer puts three of the men sitting in a line. The fourth man is put behind a screen (or in a separate room). He gives all four men party hats. The jailer explains that there are two red and two blue hats; that each prisoner is wearing one of the hats; and that each of the prisoners is only to see the hats in front of them but not on themselves or behind. The fourth man behind the screen can't see or be seen by any other prisoner. No communication between the prisoners is allowed. If any prisoner can figure out and say to the jailer what colour hat he has on his head all four prisoners go free. If any prisoner suggests an incorrect answer, all four prisoners are executed. The puzzle is to find how the prisoners can escape, regardless of how the jailer distributes the hats.

10.   How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?

11.  In the middle of a round pool lies a beautiful water-lily. The water-lily doubles in size every day. After exactly 20 days the complete pool will be covered by the lily. After how many days will half of the pool be covered by the water-lily?

12.  What is red and white and can travel the world in 1 night?

13.  I have roads but no cars, I have oceans but no water who am I?

14.  where was the decloration of independence signed?

15.  Who was the president of USA before John F. Kennedy was assaninated?

16.  There were 10 horses in a farm and the farmer was on vaction and 3 horses died. How many horses are left?

17.  What has one eye but can not see ?

18.  What has four eyes but can not see?

19.  What has 3 feet, but no legs?

20.  Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive?

21.  When is ‘four’, half of ‘five’?

22.  What can fly, but no Wings?

23.  Which part of ‘London’is in ‘France’?

24.  What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps??

25.  What in an automobile engine serves no purpose but without it the engine does not work?

26.  You are trapped in a room with no windows and a locked door. How do you get out?

27.  What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters in it?

28.  There were two ducks in front of a duck and two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks were there in total?

29.  What can you put in a wood box that will make it lighter?

30.  Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?

            31.  How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

            32.  I have no Brothers and sisters, but this man's father is my father's son.
Who is the man?

           33.  A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket? 

          34.  The captain of a ship was telling this interesting story: "We traveled the sea far and wide. At one time, two of my sailors were standing on opposite sides of the ship. One was looking west and the other one east. And at the same time, they could see each other clearly."
How can that be possible?

          35.  Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins.
How can this be?

         36.  What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

         37.  Susan is in the final of a match at the olympic games. At the moment she reaches the Finish, all the other contestants are behind her back. She did not play unfair and did also not use doping, but she does not get the gold medal? Why is that? 

        38.  What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?