Brain Teasers for Adults

Brain teasers are used since centuries to challenge intelligence of people and have passed the test of time by virtue of how imaginative and fun they can be. Some brain teasers may torture you mentally! Some answers are intelligent while some are stupid but you always enjoy them. Most of the brain teasers for adults or kids generally rely upon double-meaning and word-play and you might get frustrated without a little bit of luck!

You can have fun while you get your logic skills tested. Good brain teasers are enjoyed by all, kids as well as adults. There are different types of brain teasers for adults and kids like tricky riddles, logic puzzles, brain games, sudoku puzzles, etc. These days, innumerable riddles and brain teasers for kids are available on net. I know, adults also enjoy these brain teasers. Puzzle books in the book stores can prove to be good gifts for your friends and relatives. Even the newspapers publish brain teasers, word puzzles and sudokus every day. Following hints can hopefully help you unlock your inner riddle-master! Here is how to deal with a brain teaser, but before that, presenting to you some interesting riddles.

Brain Teasers with Answers

What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?



When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?



Which is faster, hot or cold?



Can you guess the next three letters in the following series and why?
C Y G T N T L I T F.........



First I threw away the outside and cooked the inside, then I ate the outside and threw away the inside, what did I eat?



The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number. Can you tell what is so special about it?



A woman from Washington married twenty different men from that city, yet she was not arrested for breaking the law. The most surprising fact is that she never divorced and none of these men died. How was this possible?



I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun but I am never out of darkness.



When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you don't have me.



What has a mouth but cannot eat, what moves but has no legs and what has a bank but cannot put money in it?



What makes more as you take them?



From the beginning of eternity to the end of time and space I am in every place. What am I?



What do the following words have in common?

Assess, Voodoo, Banana, Grammar, Potato, Dresser, Revive, Uneven



A man wanted to encrypt his password but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. He had to use 7 characters consisting of letters and numbers only (no symbols like ! or <). In order to remember it, he wrote down "You force heaven to be empty." Can you tell me what his password was?



Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna doesn't use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The pope never uses his. What is it?



A man wanted to work but he could not log in to his computer terminal successfully. He tried twice but his password didn't work. He suddenly remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he called his boss and said,
Man-"Hey boss, my password is out of date."
Boss-"Yes, that's right. The password is different, listen carefully, I am sure, you can figure out the new one. The new one has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same."
Man: "Thanks boss." With that he could correctly log into his station. Can you tell me his new and old passwords?



How to Find Answers for Brain Teasers

These days, brain teasers are part of job interviews. They are helpful in psycho-analysis of the candidate. While attempting to solve hard riddles, keep it in your mind that they are meant to trick you.

• Search for any language that could have multiple meanings and guard against your own assumptions.
• If the riddle contains a few different lines, break the riddle into manageable chunks.
• Analyze them individually to come up with any possible riddle answers.
• Check the key words and dissect them to figure out how they may be misleading you.
• Brain teasers with letters basically are questions that poke fun at the alphabet. For instance, "How do you file an axe?" Answer: "Under the letter A!"
• The joy of brain teasers is often in how mundane, yet non-perceivable the solution is to us. For instance, "How would you differentiate a good lawyer and a great lawyer?"- The answer is "A lawyer who knows the law is a good lawyer while a lawyer who knows the judge is a great lawyer!"

Sometimes, there are optical illusions which contain deceptive or misleading pictures. You are expected to concentrate your eye and mind on the picture and find out the hidden answer. Like the misleading pictures, brain teasers also entangle the mind of the reader and make him forget his worries, at least for a while. Brain teasers, thus, really work as stress relievers for adults.