Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?
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.
Long or Short
I can be long or I can be short. I can be grown and I can be bought.
I can be painted or left bare. I can be round or square.
What am I?
Stand Behind
How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you at the same time?
Playing Chess
Two men are playing chess. They play five games. Each man wins three. How is that possible?
Thanks Bartender
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a drink. The bartender pulls out a small pistol and fires it directly at the man. The man falls to the ground but quickly gets back up and thanks the bartender. Why is that?
Throw Away
You throw me away to use me and bring me back when you are done?
What am I?
The Little Letters
Three little letters A paradox to some. The worse that it is the better it becomes.
What is it?
Everyone Has It
Everyone has it. Those who have the least don’t know they have it. Those who have the most wish they had less of it.
What is it?
Never Clinking
Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail, never clinking.
What am I?
Still a Word
Which eight letter word still remains a word even after removing each letter from one at a time?
Never Released
I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case from which I am never released. I am used by almost everybody at sometime in their life.
What am I?
Gold Coin
Two men find an old gold coin and want to have a coin toss with it to decide who gets to keep it. The only problem is the coin is heavier on one side so it comes up heads more than tails.
What is a fair way for the men to toss the coin and decide who gets to keep it?
Never Fall
I have a metal roof and a glass wall,
I burn and burn but never fall.
What am I?
Flora Not Fauna
I am flora, not fauna.
I am foliage, not trees.
I am shrubbery, not grass.
What am I?
Giving LIfe
If you throw me from the window, I’ll leave a grieving wife.
Bring me back, but a door, You’ll see something giving life.
What am I?
Next Letter
What would be the next letter in this series?
O T T F F S S
Always Old
Always old, sometimes new.
Never sad, sometimes blue.
Never empty, sometimes full.
Never pushes, always pulls.
What am I?
Alphabetical Order
What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order?
Teary Eyed
I’m teary-eyed but never cry. Silver-tongued, but never lie. Double-winged, but never fly. Air-cooled, but never dry.
What am I?
Honest Politicians
There is a room full of 100 politicians. Each one is either honest or a liar. You know to facts about these politicians:
1. At least one of them is honest.
2. If you pick any two politicians, at least one of them is a liar.
From this information, can you determine how many politicians are honest and how many are liars?