Brain Buster #101
If Susan is 10, Arabella is 20, and Jim and Neal are both 5, but Richard is
10, how much is Jennifer by the same system?
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Brain Buster #102
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same nine letters,
will complete the sentence below?
There are several _____________to looking __________in order to draw
conclusions about the future.
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Brain Buster #103
It's common knowledge that food can be presented in a variety of different
ways. For example, PARSLEY can have its letters re-arranged so that it is
presented as PLAYERS; and BROTHS can be presented as THROBS. Listed below
are a dozen types of foods, presented in a variety of ways. Can you
untangle the letters and arrive back at the foods we started with?
a. trance b. unpaste c.
unstrip d. scuttle e.
chariot f. orblets g. assuage
h. aridness i. harmonicas j.
segregates k. mentioners l.
solemn
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Brain Buster #104
The office team is out racing at the skating rink during a long lunch
hour. Samantha beat Jim. Louise was not last. Dennis was
beaten by Jack and Louise, in that order. Jim was not first. Jack
lost to Jim. Who won?
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Brain Buster #105
A census taker asked a housewife how many people lived in her house and what
their ages were. The woman told him that three daughters lived in the
house, that the product of their ages was 36, and that the sum of their ages was
the number of the house next door. The census taker went next door and
looked at the number on the door. When he came back, he told the housewife
that the information she had given was insufficient, whereupon she replied,
"My oldest daughter is sleeping upstairs." The census taker
thanked her and promptly figured out the daughters' ages. What were they
and how did he know?
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Brain Buster #106
When Jim was taking a stroll one day, he met his father-in-law's only
daughter's mother-in-law. What did he call her?
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Brain Buster #107
The names of three males are interlettered below. Can you find them?
T I C H S E M O R I B A T H S T S T Y I A O P H E N R
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Brain Buster #108
The combined ages of Mark and Andrew are 44, and Mark is twice as old as
Andrew was when Mark was half as old as Andrew will be when Andrew is three
times as old as Mark was when Mark was three times as old as Andrew. How
old is Mark? If you cannot work it out, ask your friends to help you, and
watch the bewilderment creep over their faces as they attempt to grapple with
the problem.
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Brain Buster #109
You bought 2 antique lamps for $50 each. Later, you were offered $60
for one and you sold it, changed your mind when you saw its duplicate being sold
for more, and bought it back for $70. You then sold it for $80. The
first one didn't sell at all so you reduced it by 10% below what you originally
paid and managed to sell it. Did you make or lose money on the deal, and
how much?
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Brain Buster #110
In a foot race, Frances was not last and beat Georgia. Jill beat Ida
and Harriet. Georgia beat Jill. Harriet was not first. Ida was
neither first nor last and beat Harriet. What was the order in which the
runners finished?
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Brain Buster #111
Using the musical notes C, D, E, F, G, A and B, what is the longest word that
can be played on the piano? That is, using some or all of these letters,
as many or as few times as you like, what is the longest word you can
find? No foreign or hyphenated words allowed.
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Brain Buster #112
The following 15 letters can be anagrammed into three words that could be
said to a short-order cook. What are they?
O O E E I N C R L T H G Y L V
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Brain Buster #113
It was a bring your own food party, but not everyone could contribute
food. The agreement was that those who didn't bring food would contribute
cash. Sally brought a certain amount of pies, Jane brought one more than
Sally, and Hector brought one more than Jane. William brought nothing, but
asked them to divide the nice little pies equally, and he would pay. The
four split the pies evenly. There was a total of a dozen pies, each worth
$1.00. How much should each of them get or pay?
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Brain Buster #114
TWO X TWO = THREE
Each letter stands for one and only one digit, and no digit is represented by
more than one letter. Can you work out what digits the letters in the
above multiplication stand for so that the identity above is actually correct?
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Brain Buster #115
Here's a palindrome for you. What did Alice eat from her Greek salad?
_ T _ _ _ _ _
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Brain Buster #116
If 9 is twice 5, how will you write 6 times 5 in the same system of
notation? ( this type of puzzle dates back to the early Middle Ages, so
don't say it isn't logic. )
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Brain Buster #117
A man planted 2 poles upright in level ground. One pole was 6ft. 6in.
and the other was 7ft. 7in. above ground. From the top of each pole he
tied a string to the bottom of the other pole, just where it entered the
ground. What height above the ground was the point where the two strings
crossed? It is of no consequence as to how far apart the poles are.
Two feet or two hundred feet, it will not affect the answer.
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Brain Buster #118
What is the 4-digit number, no zeros, in which the first digit is the number
of muses, the second digit is the number of planets between the earth and the
sun, and the third and fourth digits are the sum of the first two? (The
sum of all the digits is 13.)
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Brain Buster #119
Which set of numbers would most logically come next in the following
sequence?
10 1 9 2 8 3 7 4 6 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 2
(a) 9 1 (b) 9
3 (c) 8
5 (d) 6 7
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Brain Buster #120
Put 3 letters in front of and the same 3 letters (in the same order) behind
each of the following groups of letters so as to form words.
ERTAINM
ENTIALN
ERGRO
ACHA
SH
AU
X
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Brain Buster #121
Find the word that fits the first definition, then add an "M" in
front of it to make a new word that matches the second definition.
Add an "M" to a famous boat, and get a stamp or identification.
Add an "M" to inquire, and get a facial covering.
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Brain Buster #122
The spy was captured easily, and his message proved to be so simple that the
lieutenant saw its importance immediately. What does it say?
Alice: Tom told Ann Carter, Kelly and Ted, David Atwood was not moving out
now. David awaiting you.
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Brain Buster #123
I am a word of 12 letters
My 12, 4, 7, 2, 5 is an Eastern beast of burden
My 1, 8, 10, 9 is a street made famous by Sinclair Lewis
My 11, 3, 6 is past
My whole is a person suffering from delusions of greatness
So, who am I?
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Brain Buster #124
Make a dent in your mental energy and complete the word below by filling in
the missing letters.
I _ _ E _ E N _ _ B L _
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Brain Buster #125
The happy couple had decided what to name their expected baby, even though
they didn't know whether it would be a boy or a girl. Both their family
names contained the letters ODLYL, and the names for both sexes could be made
from those letters. What were the two names?
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