The exact same seven letters in the exact same order can fill in all the blanks in the following sentence and the sentence will make sense:
The _______ surgeon was _______ to do the surgery because he had _______ .
What are the seven letters?
Category: Hard Brain Teasers
The best hard brain teasers to challenge your problem solving skills. How many brain teasers do you think you can answer correctly? Submit your own and challenge your friends.
Diamond in a Bottle
There is valuable diamond inside of an empty wine bottle. The wine bottle is made of glass and has a cork sealing the top. You cannot break or damage the glass in any way. You are not allowed to take the cork out of the bottle.
If you can get the diamond out of the bottle, it is yours.
How do you get the diamond out without damaging the glass or removing the cork?
Special Transaction
Mark went to a restaurant for dinner last night. When he received his check he paid with a hundred dollar bill.
When the waiter returned his change, Mark received one of every denomination of currency under one hundred dollars.
What was the total cost of Mark’s meal?
Truth and Lies
We can hurt without moving. We can poison without touching. We can bear the truth and lies. We are not to be judged by our size.
What are we?
Matters that Count
Placed above, I make greater things small. Placed beside I make small things great. In matters that count, I always come first. Where others increase I keep them the same.
What am I?
You’re Fired
A wealthy man had an important flight the next day. Early that morning his security guard tells the man not to take the plane because he just had a dream that the plane would crash. The security guard then leaves as it is the end of his shift.
The wealthy man took the advice of his security guard and traveled by train instead. Once he arrives at his destination, he learns the plane did in fact crash. He then fires his security guard.
Why did he fire the security guard?
River Crossing
You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time.
If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it.
How can you get all three across safely?
Speaks When Spoken To
I do not speak unless spoken to, many have heard me but none have seen me.
What am I?
Which Tire
Which tire does not move when a car turns right?
Seeking Information
If it’s information you seek, come and see me.
If it’s pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three.
Who am I?
What’s In Common
What do many boats, shovels, laundries, whistles, and hot showers have in common?
Have but not Hold
You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?
Name the Drink
What drink is made from the following letters: H I J K L M N O?
The Protector
I live in a never ending sea of sand while I protect triangles that point to the stars. I’m not a woman, lion, or eagle. I’m all three.
Who am I?
Five Items
We’re five little items of an everyday sort. You’ll find us all in a tennis court.
What are we?
Flag Waving
I take what you receive and surrender it all by waving my flag.
What am I?
Number Sequence
What is the next number in the following sequence: 06, 68, 88, __?
What are we?
We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.
What are we?
What’s the Word
I am something you sit on. If you remove my first letter I become part of your body. If you remove my next letter, I become invisible.
What am I?
Long Pause
What is a four letter word that you can double one of its letters and it will change from a being a long pause to a short pause?