We’ve all been indoors a lot more the past few months, and you can only play games on zoom with relatives for so long. So if you’re in need of some new activities, why not turn your next game into a learning experience? Brain teasers to the rescue! 

We put together some of our favorites

1. Question: Why are ghosts bad at lying?

 Answer: Because you can see right through them.

2. Question: A mouse wants to get in better shape. She’s going to start by climbing the stairs. Starting on the fourth floor, she climbs up five stories, down seven stories, up six stories, down three stories, and up four stories again. What floor is she on?

Answer: The ninth floor 

3. Question: What are two things you can never eat for breakfast? 

Answer: Lunch and dinner 

4. Question: What is a 5-letter word that gets shorter when you add two letters to it?

Answer: Short 

5. Question: I am full of holes but can hold a lot of water. What am I?

Answer: A sponge 

6. Question: What travels around the world but stays in one corner? 

Answer: A stamp 

7. Question: What do you call a fairy who never takes a bath? 

Answer: Stinker Bell 

8. Question: What is the one math symbol you can add in between 55555 to make it equal 500? 

Answer: Minus symbol...555-55=500

9. Question: You’re driving a city bus. At the first stop, five women get on. At the second stop, one woman gets off and two men get on. At the third stop, three children get on. The bus is white and it’s raining outside in March. What color is the bus driver’s hair?

Answer: Whatever color your hair is. You're the bus driver. 

10. Question: What gets wet when drying?

Answer: A towel 

11. Question: What has to be broken before you can use it? 

Answer: An egg 

12. Question: I am not alive, but I have five fingers. What am I? 

Answer: A glove 

13. Question: What increases but never decreases? 

Answer: Your age 

14. Question: You can find it in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, but not in Venus or Neptune. What is it?

Answer: The letter R 

15. Question: What is at the end of everything? 

Answer: The letter G 

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