How many apples grow on a tree?
Category: Short Brain Teasers
The best short 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.
Heavy Forward
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. 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?
Old Value
Why an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer one?
Doesn’t Move
What stays where it is when it goes off?
Never Eaten
People buy me to eat, but never eat me.
What am I?
Head to Toes
You use me from your head to your toes, the more I work the thinner I grow.
What am I?
Going Up
What goes up when rain comes down?
Riddle of the Sphinx
What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?
The Farmer’s Cows
A farmer has 10 cows, all but six die.
How many are left?
Still a Word
Which eight letter word still remains a word even after removing each letter from one at a time?
Not Wanted
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not.
What is it?
Want to Share
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you no longer have me.
What am I?
What Word
What word becomes shorter by adding two letters to it?
Flora Not Fauna
I am flora, not fauna.
I am foliage, not trees.
I am shrubbery, not grass.
What am I?
Where There is Light
I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me.
What am I?
Next Letter
What would be the next letter in this series?
O T T F F S S
Alphabetical Order
What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order?
Human Organ
I am the only human organ to have given itself its own name.
What am I?
Alive and Dead
When it is alive, all but one sings. When it dies, all but one cheers.
What is it?