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?
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.
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?
Seven Letters
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?
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?