I am flora, not fauna.
I am foliage, not trees.
I am shrubbery, not grass.
What am I?
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.
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?
Sounds The Same
If you remove the first, third and last letter from this five letter word it still sounds the same.
What is the word?
One Can’t Keep
What can one person not keep, two can hold, and three people can destroy?
Same Age
Jessica just turned 13 years old. Her father Chris is 40 years old.
How many years ago was Chris four times as old as Jessica?
Here to There
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, and here to there by reappearing.
What am I?
What Does It Equal
If 1 = 5, 2 = 10, 3 = 15, and 4 = 20.
What does 5 equal?
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?
Same Parents
How could the 22nd and the 24th president of the United States have the same parents when they were not brothers?
Looks Like a Cat
I act like a cat, I look like a cat, yet I am not a cat.
What am I?
Hungry Horse
A horse is tied to a rope 9 meters long and the horse’s food is 17 meters away from the horse.
How does the horse reach the food?
Fishing Trip
A boy and the doctor are fishing. The boy is the doctor’s son, but the doctor is not the boy’s father.
Who is the doctor?
Speaks When Spoken To
I do not speak unless spoken to, many have heard me but none have seen me.
What am I?
It’s Yours
What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
What Did I Eat?
First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside.
What did I eat?
Legal Marriage
Can a man legally marry his widow’s sister in the state of Alaska?