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: Long Brain Teasers
The best long 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?
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?
Jogging Home
A man leaves home jogging, he turns left, he turns left again, then he turns left one last time, as he is looking home he sees two masked men.
What is he doing?
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?
Who Done It
It is a Sunday morning and a man comes to find his wife dead.
The maid said she was cleaning the kitchen, the mailman said he was delivering mail, the nanny said he was teaching the kids, and the farmer said he was harvesting his crops.
Who done it?
Lily Pad Lake
In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch of lily pads doubles in size.
If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?
What do you Open First?
It’s 7:00 AM. You are asleep and there is a sudden knock on the door.
Behind the door are your parents who came to have breakfast. In your fridge are bread, milk, juice, and a jar of jam.
What will you open first?
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?
Greater than God
What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you’ll die?
Lasts a Lifetime
I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time.
I form in an instant but I can last a lifetime.
What am I?
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?
Same Question Different Answers
A man traveled to Europe over the summer and asked the same question several times a day everyday.
Usually he asked the question to different people but sometimes he asked the question to the same people in the same places. The man never got the same answer twice.
What was the question?
Who’s Lying
Adam says that Matt always lies.
Matt says that Roger always lies.
Roger says that Adam, as well as Matt, always lies.
Only one of them is telling the truth, who is it?
Secret Chamber
You have discovered a clue to open the door to a secret chamber said to be filled with riches awaiting those with the correct password.
The password is seven characters long and is a mixture of numbers and letters. Your clue is “You force heaven to be empty”.
What is the password to enter the secret chamber?
Boxes of Balls
There are two boxes, box A and box B. Each box contains several balls.
If you move one ball from box A to box B, box B will then have twice as many balls as box A.
If you move one box from box B to box A, both boxes will then have the same amount of balls.
How many balls are in each box?
Fool’s Gold
There are five identical looking bags of gold coins. Four of the bags contain coins made of real gold and one of the bags contains coins made of fool’s gold.
All of the coins in all of the bags look identical. They are the same size, color and shape. The only difference is their weight. Real gold coins weigh 10 grams and coins made of fool’s gold weigh 11 grams.
You have an accurate scale that you can use only one time to determine which bag contains the fool’s gold. How do you do it?
Loan for the Wealthy
A wealthy woman goes into a bank to ask for a $10,000 loan before her month long vacation. The bank had no problem loaning the money as long as the woman would put up some collateral. So the woman offers to let them hold on to her $200,000 luxury automobile.
The bank happily agrees, loans the woman $10,000 and takes possession of the vehicle. Upon returning from vacation the woman goes back to the bank to repay the loan and collect her vehicle. The bank manager laughs and ask the woman why if she is so rich did she go through so much trouble.
What was the woman’s reply to bank manager?
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