Puzzles / Mental Gym

INDEX PUZZLES & MENTAL GYM

Car Accident
Man in Black
Manhole Cover
Punch
Glass of Water
Old SMS
The Recluse
The Murderer
Glasses
Eggs in a Basket

TEXTS

Car Accident

1) A man and his son are in a car accident.
The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital.
When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!"
How can this be?

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Man in Black

2) A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, lumper, gloves & balaclava.
He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off.
A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time.
How did the driver see the man?

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Manhole Cover

3) Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?

(This is logical rather than lateral, but it is a good puzzle that can be solved by lateral thinking techniques.
It is supposedly used by a
very well-known software company as an interview question for
prospective employees)

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Punch

4) A man went to a party and drank some of the punch.
He then left early.
Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning.
Why did the man not die?

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Glass of Water

5) A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water.
The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man.
The man says 'Thank you' and walks out.

(This puzzle claims to be the best of the genre. It is simple in its statement, absolutely baffling and yet with a completely satisfying solution.
Most people struggle very hard to solve this one yet they like the answer when they hear it or have the satisfaction of figuring it
out.)

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Old SMS

Some of you think that text messaging is new!
Try these from the 1950s

6) YY U R YY U B
I C U R YY 4 me

7) If the B M T put :
If the B . putting :
Don't put : over a - der
You'd be an * it

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The Recluse

8)There once was a recluse who never left his home. The only time anyone ever visited him was when his food and supplies were delivered, but they never came inside. Then one stormy winter night when an icy gale was blowing, he had a nervous breakdown. He went upstairs, turned off all the lights, and went to bed. Next morning he had caused the deaths of several hundred people. How?

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The Murderer

9)Acting on an anonymous phone call, police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don't know what he looks like, but they know his name is 'John'. Inside they find a carpenter, a lorry driver, a car mechanic and a fireman playing cards. Without even asking his name they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they have got their man?

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Glasses

10) Three glasses are filled with orange juice, and placed to the left of three empty glasses. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so that the full and empty glasses alternate.

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Eggs in a Basket

11) There are six eggs in a basket. Six people each take one egg. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

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Updated 29 April 2013