Brain Teasers For Kids
Three brain teasers for kids per card and nine cards translates to 27 stumpers for you to put your best thinking and creativity to the test. See how many you can get right and look at our grading curve at the end.
Trying to answer brain teasers improves your lateral thinking, creativity, and logic. Plus, they can be a lot of fun even if you find yourself saying, “Doh!”
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Best Brain Teasers With Answers
1.) Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
2.) What is a common eleven-letter word always spelled incorrectly?
3.) What do you find in the middle of nowhere?
ANSWERS: 1.) Mount Everest. 2.) Incorrectly. 3.) The letter H.
Good Brain Teaser Puzzles
4.) How can you go for eight days without sleep?
5.) If you have two bills in your hand that add up to $25 and one isn’t a $5 bill, what bills do you have?
6.) If Megan had 4 piles of sand and Molly had 5 piles of sand, and they put them all together, how many piles would there be?
ANSWERS: 4.) Sleep at night. 5.) One twenty and one five-dollar bill — One isn’t a five-dollar bill, but one is! 6.) One! Duh, they put them all together.
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Hard Riddles – Mind Puzzles
7.) Two boys played 7 games of checkers. Each wins five games, and yet there were no ties or draws. How can this be?
8.) Four football linebackers were able to stay dry while standing under one umbrella. How could this be?
9.) If you’re running a race and pass the person in 2nd place, what place are you in?
ANSWERS: 7.) They didn’t play with each other. 8.) It wasn’t raining. 9.) 2nd place. If you pass the person in the first place, you’d be in the first place.
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Brain Twisters & Trick Questions
10.) How long is the answer to this question?
11.) Michael’s father had three sons: Snap, crackle, and …. who?
12.) Imagine you are falling into a deep hole full of poisonous snakes and ferocious tigers. How would you survive?
ANSWERS: 10.) How long. 11.) Michael. 12.) Stop imagining.
Creative Brain Teasers
13.) A boy kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to him. How is this possible?
14.) A rancher had 500 cows and took one shot that got them all. How did he do it?
15.) There was a terrible plane crash. Every single person on board died, but yet two people survived. How is this possible?
ANSWERS: 13.) He kicked it up in the air right above him. Gravity! 14.) Using a camera, the rancher took a panoramic photo. 15.) The surviving couple was married.
Tough Puzzlers
16.) Fred fell from a ladder 20 feet high. Yet, he was not hurt in the least. Why?
17.) What do an island and the letter “t” have in common?
18.) The maker doesn’t want it; the buyer doesn’t use it, and the user doesn’t see it. What is it?
ANSWERS: 16.) He was on the rung closes to the ground. 17.) They are both in the middle of the water. 18.) A coffin.
Hard Brain Teasers For Kids
19.) How can a man who shaves several times a day still sport a long beard?
20.) How many letters are in the alphabet?
21.) What are the next three letters in this sequence: OTTFFSS?
ANSWERS: 19.) He’s a barber. 20.) 11 letters are in “the alphabet.” 21.) ENT. One, two, three…It’s the first letter to every number, counting up from one.
Cool Conundrums
22.) John is a butcher. He is 5’ 10” tall and wears a size 11 shoe. What does he weigh?
23.) A rope tied to a bull’s neck is 10 feet long, and his food trough is 15 feet away. How did the bull eat successfully without breaking the rope or cutting it?
24.) A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll?
ANSWERS: 22.) Meat. 23.) Walked over. The rope wasn’t tied to anything beyond the bull’s neck. 24.) It didn’t roll as roosters don’t lay eggs. Hens do.
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Perplex Puzzles
25.) A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
26.) If you have three, you have three. If you have two, you have two. But, if you have one, you have none. What is it?
27.) A barrel of water weighs 60 pounds. What must you put in it for it to weigh 40 pounds?
ANSWERS: 25.) You don’t bury the survivors! 26.) Choices. 27.) A hole.
Grading Curve Summary
Let’s face it: this was a tough challenge. Sure, you may have heard some before, and for others, the answers were easy. But, still, there were some real challenges in there. As a result, our grading is a little easier.
21 or More Correct = An “A.” Hey, this ain’t your first brain teaser rodeo.
15 – 20 Correct = A “B.” You’ve got a knack for this. Keep up the effort, and you’ll be moving to the head of the class soon.
9 – 14 Correct = A “C.” For a test this tough, getting a fair amount right is right around the average score.
8 or Fewer Correct = Keep trying. No one said this would be easy. Completing the test shows us you have an interest. That means, with a little more practice, you’ll be improving.
Tips For How To Solve Brain Teasers
- Remember to spend some time and not blurt out the first answer that crosses your mind. Slow down. Brain teasers are designed to fool people. The most obvious answer is usually wrong. Think through your options.
- Read through the question several times. If the question is asked of you, ask the person to repeat the question. Listen to each part of the question very carefully. If the question is long, make sure to listen to the very beginning carefully.
- Use common sense. Don’t be misled by the information prior to the question.
- Repeat the question out loud a couple of times before answering. The correct answer might come to you when you’re repeating the question.
- Try to visualize the problem. With a pen and paper, diagram the problem as you hear it. By seeing the problem before you, it might highlight the answers you previously didn’t think of.
- Have fun! Brain teasers are constructed to fool folks. If you’re fooled, don’t feel bad. Share the brainteasers with others and enjoy their attempts at correct answers.
FREE Printable PDF
Take these fun brain teasers with you wherever you go (just print them out for the kiddos) with this FREE Printable PDF:
By Greg Johnson and Mike O’Halloran | Published 6/15/2020
Greg and Mike are two-thirds of the team that created the Smart Attack trivia game series sold at retail. They also founded ListCaboodle.
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