Brain Twisters

Your daily brain twisting riddle.

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A: She had already put sugar in it and when she tasted the new tea it was already sweet.

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..She shouted, "You brought me the same tea!" How did she know?

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Q: A woman was horrified to find a fly in her tea. The waiter took her cup and went into the kitchen and returned with a fresh cup of tea...

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A:

He can't swim, he is dead.

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If he swims south, the distance to the mainland is 3 meters. If he swims east or west, the distance is 4 meters. Which way does he swim?

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A: There is a frog, dead in the middle of an island. If he swims north, the distance to the mainland is 2 meters...

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A: Toss it in the air.

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Q: What is the easiest way to throw a ball, and have it stop, and completely reverse direction after traveling a short distance?

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A: The nail would be at the same height since trees grow at their tops.

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If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?

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Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was......

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Q: When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. .....

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A:
There was the father, his son, and his son's son. This equals 2 fathers and 2 sons!

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One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?

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Q:
Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish...

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A: Neither, because egg yolks are yellow.

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Q: Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white," or "The yolk of the egg is white?"

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...The clock stopped 1 hour ago and the time must now be 6.00am. QED.

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Since the clock shows 3:00am, we know that 180 clock minutes have passed. This therefore equals 300 real minutes and hence 5 hours.

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A: 6:00am: since the clock is losing 24 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will only show 36 minutes...