3. Why did the bumble bee put honey under its pillow?
4. How many blocks can you put in an empty box?
5. There were two fathers and two sons, they all went fishing and each caught one fish. When they looked at all the fish caught, there were three fish in all. How could this be?
6. Three ants were walking in a straight line. The first ant said, “There are two ants behind me”.
The second ant said, “There is one ant behind me”.
The third ant said, “There are two ants behind me”.
How can that be?
7. You’re in a deep, dark jungle. You have a matchstick, a wooden stove, and a lantern. What will you light first?
8. What did the math book say to the pencil?
9. There are four men in a boat, the boat sank and the men sank to the bottom of the lake, yet not one single man got wet. Why?
10. There are two cliffs, the only thing connecting them is a rope, and the rope has a basket. The basket can only hold you and one item. The items are a fox, a chicken and chicken food.
How do you get them from one cliff to the other, without the fox eating the chicken and without the chicken eating the chicken food?
11. Five copycats were in a car. One jumped out. How many were left?
12. A young Eskimo and an old Eskimo were standing outside their igloo. The young Eskimo is old Eskimo’s grandson. But the old Eskimo is not the young Eskimo’s grandfather. Who is the old Eskimo?
13. If it takes seven men, seven days, to dig seven holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?
14. There were these two boys in school and the teacher called out there names. She asked, “Are you two twins?”
They said, “No Miss, we are brothers.”
Then the teacher said, “You must be twins because you have the same date of birth.” How is that possible?
15. There is a man facing north and a man facing south. The man facing north asks the man facing south, “Why are you smiling?”
There was no mirror and the man facing north doesn’t turn around how is that possible? Also, he doesn’t have eyes in the back of his head.
16. Imagine you’re in a box without doors. How can you get out?
17. There is a one story house. Everything in the house is purple. Purple sofas, purple pillows, even purple bathtubs! What colour are the stairs?
18. A worker named Aly works on the 1000th floor of a sky scrapper. Everyday she leans on the window, but one day she fell asleep against the window.
Well, while she slept she accidentally pushed the window open and fell through. But she didn’t get hurt. How could this be?
Answers:
1. Three2. An egg3. It wanted to have sweet dreams.
4. One. After that it’s not empty anymore.5. There were three men in all. The first man was a father and a grandfather. The second man was the son of the first man and father of the third man. That means the first man counted as one father, the second man counted as one father and one son, the third man counted as one son therefore there were two fathers and two sons.
6. The third ant was lying.7. The matchstick of course!8. I have a lot of problems!
9. They were all married, not single.10. First you bring the chicken over. Then you go back without the chicken. Then you bring the chicken food over and take the chicken back. Then bring the fox over leave him there with the chicken food and go get the chicken!
11. None. They all copied the first one!12. The old Eskimo is the grandmother.13. You can’t dig half a hole, everything you dig is a hole!
14. We have a sister in the girls’ school so we are triplets.15. They were facing each other.16. Stop imagining!
17. There are no stairs! It’s a one story house!18. Aly is a window washer and she was outside of the window when she fell asleep, so she fell inside of the building and landed on the office floor.
— Compiled by The Surfer