Braingle's Newest Brain Teasers and Riddles

Missing Word...5

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Figure out the words below based on the clues.

____ Morning
____ Night
____will
____ Girls Go Bad
____year

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Words With GU

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Five words that contain GU as a letter-pair have had all of their other letters removed and placed into a pool. Put those letters back in their proper places. What are the words?

**GU*, GU****, **GU**, ***GU*, ***GU**

Pool: A, A, A, D, E, E, E, I, I, J, L, M, N, N, N, O, P, R, R, T

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Kangaroo Words 6

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same order.

Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. banish
2. illuminated
3. devilish
4. sorcerer
5. exorcise

See if you can find two joey words in this kangaroo word:
6. falsified

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Kangaroo Words 5

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same order.

Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. action
2. recline
3. chocolate
4. satisfied
5. isolated

See if you can find two joey words in this kangaroo word:
6. alone

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Two Odd Numbers

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

How can you use addition and get 21 using two odd numbers.

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Displayed in a Museum

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

A museum has 5 wings: North, South, East, West, and Central. These wings are where the museum displays their traveling exhibits. One year 5 different exhibits came, each one to a different wing. From the clues below, determine the name of the traveling exhibit, what month it opened, how long it was on display, and what wing it was housed in.
1- East Wing hosted the Ancient Greek, an exhibition which opened later in the year than the one which lasted four months.
2- The first exhibit to go on display lasted for 3 months.
3- The exhibitions in North Wing opened in June.
4- Aztec was on display for a period of five months.
5- The six month touring exhibit was allocated to West Wing.
6- The exhibition starting in September ran for longer that the display of the Samurai.
7- The exhibition entitled Masada and Dead Sea Scrolls opened two months before the display in Central Wing; their duration differed by more than a month.

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Missing Word...4

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Figure out the missing word based on the clues below.

Microsoft _____Point
_____ Rangers
_____ of Attorney
_____ful
_____house

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Puzzling

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Five people were solving their favorite type of puzzle on a website. From the clues below, determine the name of the person, their screen name, what puzzle they solved, and how long it took to solve it.

1- Michael's wordsearch took eight minutes longer to complete than person who screen name is whsprec.
2- Keith's screen name is Genius1.
3- It took usernameplease 6 minutes to solve their problem, which was not a logic grid.
4- Jennifer took four minutes longer on her puzzle than Brittany did on hers, which was not sudoku.
5- The person who solved a letter-equation was named PeaceAll, and did not take 18 minutes.
6- It was the cryptography puzzle which took 14 minutes to complete.

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Kangaroo Words 4

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same order.

Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. transgression
2. departed
3. destruction
4. facade
5. cleanser

See if you can find two joey words in this kangaroo word:
6. deteriorate

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Kangaroo Words 3

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same order.

Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. myself
2. catacomb
3. cavern
4. diminutive
5. transportation

See if you can find two joey words in
this kangaroo word:
6. chariot

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Menacing Matchsticks X

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

You will need twenty-seven matchsticks for this puzzle.

Take sixteen matchsticks and arrange them into the number 188. Next, take another matchstick and place it horizontally after the 188 to form a minus sign. Finally, take the last ten matchsticks and form the number 33. Make sure each digit is at least the width of a matchstick apart.

You should have "1 8 8 - 3 3", which is equal to 155.

The goal of this puzzle is to move two matchsticks from the first term (188), and move them to the second term (33), such that the value of all of the matchsticks is as close to zero as possible.

Notice that if the two central matchsticks from the two 8s in the first term were moved to the two 3s in the second term, you would get "100 - 99", which is equal to 1. While this solution seems strong enough to be the best possible solution, there is yet another solution that is superior to this one.

Can you figure it out? How can you move two matchsticks from the 188 to the 33 such that the value of all of the matchsticks is as close to zero as possible?

There are some rules to this puzzle. You may not break, bend, remove, or stack the matchsticks. You may also not tamper with the matchstick that functions as the minus sign.

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Operation: Rock-Ectomy

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Six words have had their rocks removed. The rocks have been placed into Group A. The remaining letters of each word have been placed into Group B. Your task is to reconstitute the words by merging each rock with the proper set of letters. Other than merging the two groups together, there is no rearranging of the letters. Example: sand + pne = spanned (SpANneD).

Group A: jade, opal, pumice, ruby, slate, talc
Group B: agal, crore, eopriz, pernkl, rnsuent, tacit

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Kangaroo Words 2

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same order.

Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. because
2. astound
3. municipality
4. charisma
5. damsel

See if you can find two joey words in this kangaroo word:
6. masculine

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Kangaroo Words 1

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Female kangaroos carry their young (joeys) in a pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words contain another word (a joey) within themselves. A joey word is a synonym of the kangaroo word, and the letters must be in the same order.

Example: "rapscallion" contains the word "rascal": RApSCALlion

See if you can find the joey words in these kangaroo words:
1. exists
2. deceased
3. barren
4. precipitation
5. prematurely

See if you can find two joey words in this kangaroo word:
6. feasted

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6 = M F of the M P

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

6 = M F of the M P

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Words With PRO

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Four words with the letters PRO, in that order, have all their other letters removed. You must use the letters in the pool to fill in the blanks.

P R _ O _ _ _ _ _ _ _
P R O _ _ _ _ _ _
P R _ _ _ _ _ O _ _ _
P _ R _ _ O _

Pool: A, A, A, A, D, D, E, E, E, E, F, I, I, L, L, L, N, O, O, P, R, R, R, S, V, X

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Inferno Vs. Paradiso

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

3 C in the D C

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X-Men

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Which is the odd one out?

Storm
Beast
Nightcrawler
Cyclops
Angel
Iceman
Rogue

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High School Reunion

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

It's your 15-year class reunion at Bancroft High. You bump into five of your former classmates. You're trying to keep everyone straight. Fortunately, nobody has changed their names since school.

You remember that Ian broke his arm twice during junior year and that Sarah was captain of the girl's polo team.

Sydney and the electrical engineer reminisced with Mr. Petit (who just celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary), Ms. Sutter and the one who vacationed in Italy last week about what each of them had once wanted to be when they grew up.

No one has the same first name (Ian, Patrick, Rebecca, Sarah & Sydney), last name (Leander, Mills, Newsom, Petit & Sutter), dream job (Ballerina, Baseball Player, Nurse, Olympic Gymnast & Train Engineer), actual job (Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Electrical Engineer, Warehouse Manager, Physical Education (PE) Teacher & Stockbroker) or recent travel location (Lake Superior, United States; Lima, Peru; Nairobi, Kenya; Rome, Italy; & Sydney, Australia) as anyone else in the group.

Patrick's dream job would have involved keeping tight schedules and running (very) large machines to transport supplies over long distances; his actual position also involves managing tight schedules, running large machines and transporting warehoused supplies.

Rebecca was not surprised that her classmate who had once planned on being a nurse had recently volunteered as a humanitarian aid worker in Africa.

The stockbroker has never married because of his anxiety-ridden work. But it occurs to you that his former dream job, which is played outdoors in front of thousands of sports fans, would have been a stress inducing choice too.

The conversation moved on to recent travel locations. The CFO just traveled on business to the namesake city of the former Olympic gymnast aspirant. Ms. Mills was able to spend all summer with her children at the lake, because those in her career routinely get summers off work.

Uh oh, you got distracted there for a moment when Sydney remarked that this is the first time she has returned to Bancroft High since she left for college. But you did catch that if the former ballerina wannabe just returned from Italy, then the one named Newsom is the PE teacher, otherwise the one surnamed Leander is either Patrick or Sarah.

Phew, you kept everyone straight. Now you're ready to meet the rest of your classmates!

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