Mind Puzzles

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How many F’s are in the following sentence: Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years.

What makes the following number special: 8,549,176,320

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?

How can 8+8=4?

Guess the next three letters in the series GTNTL.

What do an island and the letter T have in common?

What is unusual about the following words: revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?

Which tire doesn’t move when a car turns right?

What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t want to use it?

What runs all around a backyard, yet never moves?

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

What is made of water but if you put it in water it will die?

Take off my skin. I won’t cry, but you will. What am I?

What is full of holes but still holds water?

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

What can fill a room but takes up no space?

• Brain Teasers:

- 6

- It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order.

- Short

- When you think in terms of time. 8 AM + 8 hours= 4 o’clock.

- I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence.

- They are both in the middle of water.

- Take the first letter of each word and place it at the end. It will spell the same word backward.

• Riddles

- Spare tire

- An anchor

- A fence

- An hourglass, with thousands of grains of sand

- An ice cube

- An onion

- A sponge

- An echo

- Darkness

- Silence

- Light

Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.

Selfish shellfish. (Repeat many times)

A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.

Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.

Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

Flash message (x3)

Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought I thought.

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.

Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat. (Repeat many times)