135 Funny Mind Trick Questions with Answers For Brain Workout

So you think you are smart enough and your common sense can be challenged? Try yourself with these trick questions or brain teaser questions. These will give a pretty hard time to your common sense because, most of the times, the questions are really silly and there is no correct answer to them. At other times, there is no logic behind these and the answer will make you laugh really hard. Some of the trick questions are funny while others are based on logic that you will turn a blind eye to. Mostly, after listening to the answers, people go like ‘Oh, why didn’t I think about that?’ because answers are obvious but ignored part of the trick questions.

Trick questions are a fun way to kill time and have some good fun. Most of the kids have grown up playing these with each other and even making trick questions of their own. They are quite an entertaining source to test your common sense at times. People try their best to solve the riddles and don’t want to give up till they get tired of guessing. Some people intentionally give funny answers to such tricky questions just to spark funny conversations among a group. Trick questions are best to have some workout for your brain and as they say, the more you use your brain, the more it gets sharp. So, here are some great trick questions for brain teasers to try your commons sense with.

Logical Puzzles

1. You have a barrel full of water that weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to it to make it weigh 15 pounds?
   Answer: Holes. (If you add holes to the barrel, the water will leak out and the overall weight will decrease.
2. The attorney is my brother,” testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he did not have a brother. Who is lying?
   Answer: Neither one, because the accountant was his sister.
3. A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible?
   Answer: Friday was the name of his horse.
4. A farmer had 752 sheep and took one shot that got them all. How did he do it?
   Answer: He took a panoramic view!
5. A girl kicks a soccer ball. It goes 10 feet and comes back to her. How is this possible?
   Answer: She kicked it up. The ball comes back due to gravity.
6. A man went outside in the pouring rain with no protection, but not a single hair on his head got wet. How come?
   Answer: He was bald.
7. A rooster laid an egg on top of the barn roof. Which way did it roll?
   Answer: It didn’t roll – roosters don’t lay eggs.
8. A truck driver is going down a one-way street the wrong way, and passes at least ten cops. Why is he not caught?
   Answer: Because he was not driving his truck! He’s walking on the sidewalk.
9. A young boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, but the ER doctor saw the boy and refused to operate. “This boy is my son,” the doctor said. But the doctor wasn’t the boy’s father. How could this be?
   Answer: The doctor was the boy’s mom.
10. An electric train is moving north at 100 mph, and a wind is blowing to the east at 10 mph. Which way does the smoke blow?
    Answer: There is no smoke with an electric train.
11. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
    Answer: Mount Everest was still the highest even though it had not been discovered.
12. Bob’s father has 4 children. Momo, Meme, and Mumu are three of them. Who’s the fourth?
    Answer: Bob
13. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?
    Answer: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
14. Everyone in the world needs it, but they usually give it without taking it. What is it?
    Answer: Advice.
15. How can a girl go 25 days without sleep?
    Answer: She sleeps at night.
16. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
    Answer: No problem, he sleeps at night.
17. How can the pocket of your pants be empty but still have something in it?
    Answer: When there is a hole in his pocket.
18. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
    Answer: The egg won’t crack the concrete floor!
19. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
    Answer: It is not a problem since you will never find an elephant with one hand.
20. How could a man go outside in the pouring rain without protection, and not have a hair on his head get wet?
    Answer: He was bald.
21. How do you make the number one disappear?
    Answer: Add the letter G and it’s “gone”!
22. How far can you walk into the woods?
    Answer: Halfway. After that, you are walking out of the woods.
23. How many birthdays does the average person have?
    Answer: Just one, all the rest are anniversaries.
24. How many legs does an elephant have if you count his trunk as a leg?
    Answer: Four. Calling the trunk a leg doesn’t make it one.
25. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
    Answer: An echo.
26. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
    Answer: No time at all, the wall is already built.
27. If you have only one match and you entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
    Answer: The match.
28. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
    Answer: You would be in 2nd place.
29. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
    Answer: No, because if he has a widow, it means he is already dead.
30. I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What object is being described here?
    Answer: Pencil lead.
31. What goes up but never comes down?
    Answer: Your age.
32. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
    Answer: A deck of cards.
33. I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I referring to?
    Answer: Fire.
34. I am full of holes, but I can still hold water. What object is this?
    Answer: A sponge.
35. The more you take, the more you leave behind. Can you guess what it is?
    Answer: A footprint.

Riddles

1. What has keys but can’t open locks?
   Answer: A piano.
2. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. Who or what am I?
   Answer: An echo.
3. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What could I be?
   Answer: A map.
4. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What is being referred to here?
   Answer: Footsteps.
5. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What object am I?
   Answer: A keyboard.
6. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
   Answer: A joke.
7. I am taken from a mine, and shut in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
   Answer: Pencil lead/graphite.
8. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
   Answer: A deck of cards.
9. I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
   Answer: Fire.
10. I am full of holes, yet I can still hold water. What am I?
    Answer: A sponge.
11. The more you have of me, the less you see. What am I?
    Answer: Darkness.
12. I am an odd number. Take away one letter, and I become even. What number am I?
    Answer: Seven (remove the letter ‘s’ and it becomes “even”).
13. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
    Answer: A clock.
14. I can fly without wings, cry without eyes, and see without a body. What am I?
    Answer: The wind.
15. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
    Answer: The future.
16. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
    Answer: The letter “M”.
17. What can you catch but not throw?
    Answer: A cold.
18. I have branches but no leaves, and I provide shelter for those beneath. What am I?
    Answer: A tree.
19. I have cities but no streets, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water. What am I?
    Answer: A globe.
20. What has to be broken before you can use it?
    Answer: An egg.
21. I can fly without wings, cry without eyes, and run without legs. What am I?
    Answer: A cloud.
22. I speak when I’m spoken to, and I stop when I’m overused. What am I?
    Answer: An alarm clock.
23. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
    Answer: Your name.
24. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
    Answer: A keyboard.
25. I have cities but no houses, rivers but no water, and forests but no trees. What am I?
    Answer: A book.
26. I have a face that doesn’t frown, hands that don’t wave, and tells time without ticking. What am I?
    Answer: A clock.
27. I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
    Answer: The future.
28. I have keys but can’t open any locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but never leave. What am I?
    Answer: A keyboard.
29. I have no voice but can still be heard. I speak to you without words. What am I?
    Answer: Your conscience.
30. What has teeth but can’t bite?
    Answer: A comb.

Number & Words Play

1. I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?
   Answer: Seven.
2. What three positive numbers give the same answer when multiplied and added together?
   Answer: One, Two, and Three (1, 2, 3).
3. I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
   Answer: Pencil lead/graphite.
4. What has keys but can’t open locks, and space but no room?
   Answer: A computer keyboard.
5. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
   Answer: The letter “M.”
6. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
   Answer: Incorrectly.
7. What starts with “e,” ends with “e,” and contains only one letter?
   Answer: An envelope.
8. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
   Answer: A deck of cards.
9. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
   Answer: Your right elbow.
10. What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
    Answer: SWIMS.
11. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
    Answer: Two apples (the ones you took).
12. What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
    Answer: A map.
13. What goes up but never comes down?
    Answer: Your age.
14. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?
    Answer: A keyboard.
15. What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
    Answer: A glove.
16. What gets wetter as it dries?
    Answer: A towel.
17. What has a face but no body, and hands but no fingers?
    Answer: A clock.
18. What has a neck but no head?
    Answer: A bottle.
19. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
    Answer: Footsteps.
20. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
    Answer: Your name.
21. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
    Answer: A hole.
22. What is full of holes but can still hold water?
    Answer: A sponge.
23. What is the next number in the sequence: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221?
    Answer: 312211.
24. What has a bottom at the top?
    Answer: Your legs.
25. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
    Answer: Silence.
26. What is the only number that, when spelled out, has all its letters in alphabetical order?
    Answer: Forty.
27. What has keys but can’t open locks, and space but no room?
    Answer: A piano.
28. What has one eye but cannot see?
    Answer: A needle.
29. What is a three-digit number that becomes three times smaller when its digits are reversed?
    Answer: 297 (reverse it and you get 792, which is three times smaller).
30. What has many keys but can’t open any locks?
    Answer: A xylophone.

Common Sense Questions

1. If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many apples do you have?
   Answer: You have four apples. (You took them!)
2. How many months have 28 days?
   Answer: All 12 months have at least 28 days.
3. If it takes 5 minutes to boil an egg, how long does it take to boil two eggs?
   Answer: It still takes 5 minutes. Boiling multiple eggs doesn’t affect the boiling time.
4. Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days. How many months have 28 days?
   Answer: All 12 months have at least 28 days. February has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years.
5. How many animals did Moses take on the ark?
   Answer: Moses didn’t take any animals on the ark; Noah did.
6. How many outs are there in an inning of baseball?
   Answer: There are 6 outs in an inning of baseball. Each team gets 3 outs.
7. If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper, and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
   Answer: You would light the match first.
8. A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
   Answer: Survivors are not buried; they are rescued and taken to hospitals.
9. How many sides does a circle have?
   Answer: A circle has one curved side.
10. If you divide 30 by half and add 10, what do you get?
    Answer: You get 70. (Dividing 30 by half is the same as multiplying by 2, which gives you 60. Adding 10 to 60 gives you 70.)
11. How many apples can you fit into an empty basket?
    Answer: Only one, because once you put one apple in, the basket is no longer empty.
12. If you have three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what do you have?
    Answer: You have big hands.
13. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
    Answer: No problem, he sleeps at night.
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
    Answer: Halfway. After that, the dog is running out of the woods.
15. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
    Answer: None. It was Noah who built and sailed the ark, not Moses.
16. If a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Mexico, where would they bury the survivors?
    Answer: Survivors are not buried. They are rescued and given medical attention.
17. What gets bigger when more is taken away?
    Answer: A hole.
18. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
    Answer: Only once. After subtracting 10, you are left with 90.
19. You are in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?
    Answer: If you overtake the second person, you are in second place.
20. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
    Answer: The egg won’t crack the concrete floor.

Trick Situations

1. If you were running a race and you passed the person in second place, what place would you be in now?
   Answer: You would be in second place.
2. A plane crashes on the border between the United States and Mexico. Where would the survivors be buried?
   Answer: Survivors are not buried; they are rescued and given medical attention.
3. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?
   Answer: Only once. After subtracting 10, you are left with 90.
4. If a doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would the pills last?
   Answer: The pills would only last for one hour. If you take the first pill, half an hour later you take the second pill, and half an hour after that you take the third pill. After that, one hour has passed and the pills are gone.
5. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April, the second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
   Answer: The third child’s name is Johnny. The question states that “Johnny’s mother had three children,” so Johnny is the third child.
6. You’re in a room with no windows or doors. The only things inside are a table and a mirror. How do you escape?
   Answer: You look in the mirror, see what you saw, take the saw, and cut the table in half. Two halves make a whole, and you crawl through the hole to escape.
7. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many do you have?
   Answer: You have two apples. You took two, so you have them.
8. A man stands on one side of a river and shouts, “How do I get to the other side?” A person on the other side shouts back, “You are on the other side!”
   Answer: The man is already on the other side. The question is a trick, as it implies that the man is not on the other side when he actually is.
9. Tom’s father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?
   Answer: The missing son’s name is Tom. The question states that “Tom’s father has three sons,” so Tom is one of them.
10. If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?
    Answer: Electric trains don’t produce smoke. There is no smoke.
11. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark?
    Answer: None. It was Noah who built and sailed the ark, not Moses.
12. How many outs are there in an inning of baseball?
    Answer: There are six outs in an inning of baseball. Each team gets three outs.
13. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
    Answer: No problem, he sleeps at night.
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
    Answer: Halfway. After that, the dog is running out of the woods.
15. What starts with an “e” and ends with an “e” but only has one letter in it?
    Answer: An envelope.
16. You are in a dark room with only one match and a candle. Which one do you light first?
    Answer: The match.
17. You come across a fork in the road, and one path leads to certain death while the other leads to safety. There are two people standing at the fork, one always tells the truth, and the other always lies. You don’t know who is who. What one question can you ask to determine the safe path?
    Answer: Ask either person, “If I were to ask the other person which path leads to safety, what would they say?” Then choose the opposite path of what they indicate.
18. You are participating in a race and overtake the person in second place. What position are you in now?
    Answer: Second place. Overtaking the person in second place means you take their position.
19. A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
    Answer: Nowhere. Survivors are not buried.
20. You have a 5-gallon jug and a 3-gallon jug. How can you measure exactly 4 gallons of water?
    Answer: Fill the 3-gallon jug and pour it into the 5-gallon jug. Fill the 3-gallon jug again and pour the remaining 2 gallons into the 5-gallon jug, which now contains 2 gallons. Finally, empty the 5-gallon jug and pour the 2 gallons from the 3-gallon jug into it. Fill the 3-gallon jug again and pour 1 gallon into the 5-gallon jug. You are left with exactly 4 gallons in the 5-gallon jug.

Hope we gave a good exercise to your brain for some time while trying to solve these trick or tricky questions aka common sense questions. You can create your own too and challenge your fellows at school or office in order to get a break from your tiresome schedule. These trick questions will surely keep you energetic and your brain muscles to be engaged and more fit. You will get stuck at times and want to beat yourself up but the feeling is enthralling for sure and you will be more relaxed eventually.

So, tag your friends here or share these trick questions or brain teasers with them and have a great time making them feel puzzled. Since there is not a single answer to these questions so you can always change the trick to make them feel crazy. You can entertain yourself by making them uncomfortable while enjoying a good laugh with these tricky questions in the meantime.