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So here is some me and others thought of (AND GOOGLE LOL) 1. If a blue house is made of blue bricks, a red house is made of red bricks. What is a green house made of ? 2. What is at the begging of Eternity, at the end of time and space and occours twice in a life time? 3.What letter is next in this sequence? O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, 4. 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?? 5. How can you use the letters in NEW DOOR to make one word? 6. Why are 2007 pennies worth more than 2006 pennies? 7.What is full of holes but still holds water? 8.What happened in 1961 and will not happen again until 6009? 9.What is light as a feather, but even the strongest man cannot hold it more than a few minutes? 10.How could all of your cousins have an aunt who is not your aunt? 11.You have a dime and a dollar, you buy a dog and a collar, the dog is a dollar more than the collar, how much is the collar? 12.What in an automobile engine serves no purpose but without it the engine does not work? 13.On my way to the fair, I met 7 jugglers and a bear, every juggler had 6 cats, every cat had 5 rats, every rat had 4 houses, every house had 3 mouses, every mouse had 2 louses, every louse had a spouse. How many in all are going to the fair? 14.Imagine you are in a sinking rowboat surrounded by sharks. How would you survive? 15. Johnny's mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child? 16.You are driving a bus. Four people get on, three people get off, then eight people get on and ten people get off, then 6 people get on and 2 more people get off. What color were the bus driver's eyes? 17.Why is it against the law for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina? 18. There was an airplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible? 19.Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? 20.That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother. Who is lying? 21. Eskimos are very good hunters, but they never hunt penguins. Why not? 22.Which is heavier: a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? 23.The Mississippi River is the dividing line between Tennessee and Arkansas. If an airplane crashed exactly in the middle of the Mississippi River there, where would the survivors be buried? 24. A man and his son were in an automobile accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy was rushed into surgery. The emergency room surgeon said "I can't operate, that's my son!" How is this possible? 25.What came first, the chicken or the egg? 26. How far can you walk into the woods? AWRNSERS!!!! 1. Awrnser: Glass 2. The letter ''E'' 3. ''N'' For nine. 4. A River 5. One word 6. One more penny. 7. A Sponge 8. The year reads the same upside down. 9. His breath 10. Your mum is there Aunt. 11. A nickel the dog cost $1.05 12. Noise 13. Just me the others were coming from the fair 14. Quit Imagening 15. Johnny 16. Whatever your eye colour is your driving the bus. 17.When he is still alive. 18. They were married. 19.Mt Everast was still the higest mountain before it was discovered. 20. NEITHER, the accountant was his sister. 21. Because Escimos live at the north pole and penguins live in the south pole. 22. There both the same they both way a pound. 23. You dont bury survivors. 24. The surgen was his mother. 25.Egg disnosaures laied eggs well before chickens. 26. Halfway, after that you are walking out the woods.

Brain teasers

10 Brainteasers to Test Your Mental Sharpness Holly Green, Contributor 131 comments, 85 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions (no peeking at the answers!): 1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name? 2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? 4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? 5. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly? 6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible? 7. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? 8. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now? 9. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?” 10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field? 10 images Photos: Top Tips To Improve Your Memory Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed Keld Jensen Contributor 9 images Photos: How To Change Your Brain For The Better How I Became A 21-Year-Old Business Executive Jenna Goudreau Forbes Staff Answers 1. Johnny. 2. Meat. 3. Mt. Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet. 4. There is no dirt in a hole. 5. Incorrectly (except when it is spelled incorrecktly). 6. Billie lives in the southern hemisphere. 7. You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera (or iPad or cell phone) to take a picture. 8. You would be in 2nd place. You passed the person in second place, not first. 9. Neither. Egg yolks are yellow. 10. One. If he combines all his haystacks, they all become one big stack. Okay, some of these are a bit corny. But they all illustrate several brain idiosyncrasies that affect how we make decisions in the world. Thanks to the way our brain works, we have a very strong tendency to see what we want to see and what we expect to see. This has huge implications when studying our customers, markets, competitors, and other data that influences key business decisions. When we only see what we want or expect to see, we miss competitive threats because our brain tells us a threat couldn’t possibly come from that direction. We miss opportunities because we only see what has worked in the past rather than what could be. And we miss major market shifts and changes in customer needs that seem obvious in hindsight but are easily overlooked when focusing on what we already know. Our brain doesn’t like information gaps, so we tend to jump at the first answer/solution that looks good rather than take the time to examine all the data. This is especially true in a world where we receive more information every day than we have time to assimilate. Finally, our brains love to see patterns and make connections. This trait serves us well in many ways as we move through the world. But the brain doesn’t always get it right. For example, how did you answer question #1 (be honest)? For most people, the first word that pops into their head is “June,” because the brain quickly spots the April/May/June pattern. Upon re-reading the question and analyzing the data, the answer “Johnny” becomes obvious. And what about the man with the wooden leg? Your answer depends on how you interpret “with.” Does it refer to the man with the wooden leg or to the camera? A bit of a trick question, but it clearly illustrates how the language we use shapes the way we look at the world. Perhaps the best example of how we miss things is the egg yolk question. Everybody knows egg yolks are yellow. But the question’s phrasing puts our attention on selecting the correct verb, so we overlook an obvious piece of data and an even more obvious answer. We can’t change how the brain works – at least not yet. Give science another 50 years and who knows what our brains will be doing! For now, we can become more aware of how our brain works, then pause from time to time to consider what we’re missing. This includes the data we’re unconsciously screening out as well as different sources of data to counterbalance what we expect to see. Get in the habit of teasing your brain. You’ll be amazed at what you end up seeing that you didn’t see before. Retweet this blog to find out how clever your friends and business associates are.