Fun Brain Teasers For Kids, Teens and Adults with Answers

Here are Fun Brain Teasers for kids to challenge their Brains. Kids love to solve brain teasers and riddles. Some of these teasers are very easy but some are tough. See how many you can solve yourself without looking at answers. 

Answers to these Fun Brain Teasers Questions are given. Links to answers to each of these brain games are given in this post. Let us get started and see how many of these Riddles and Brain Teasers you can give correct answers without looking at the show answers button.

1. Charles's mom had three children. The first was named June, and the second was July. What was the name of the third child?

2. This is a very interesting brain teaser. 

The manufacturer does not want to use it, the buyer does not need to use it and the user does not know he is using it. 

What is it?

3. This is a brain-twisting riddle to test your word power.

The word CANDY can be spelled using just 2 letters. Can you figure out how?

4. Ram bets Sham $100 that he can predict the score of the hockey game before it starts. Sham agrees but loses the bet. Why did Sham lose the bet?

5. Can you find the next 3 letters in this sequence?

o t t f f s s _ _ _

6. You have to think out of the box to solve this Fun Brain Teaser. FOUR is HALF of FIVE.

Is this statement True or False?

7. Sometimes the description of the given situation can be entirely different from what is being narrated. Here is such a twisting brain teaser puzzle to test your mind.

Then she holds him underwater for over 6 minutes.

Finally, she hangs him.

But 6 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. 

How can this be?

Now here is a Simple Brain Teaser to test your knowledge. 

8. What do these 3 have in common?

Superman 

Moses

The Cabbage Patch Kids

Again this is Memory Recall Brain Teaser. Here is something which you must have seen in your life and still sometimes it becomes difficult to recall it. 

9. What is black when you buy it from the market, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?

10. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

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The next few are word brain teasers to test your word power. 

11. What six-letter word in the English language contains ten other words without rearranging any of its letters? 

12. Name an English word of more than 2 letters that both begins and ends with the letters "he" in that order. There are two possible answers. "hehe" is not acceptable. 

This tough brain teaser even I could not answer. Anyway, something tough for one may be easy for someone else. Do check out if you can solve this one quickly?

13. I can sizzle like bacon,

I am made with an egg,

I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg,

I peel layers like onions, but still, remain whole,

I can be long like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole,

What am I?

14. There is a common English word that is seven letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains a common English word - from seven letters right on down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing a letter at a time?

15. This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!

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This brain twister will be very easy for US residents. 

16. Hi! Ma and Pa told me I'd better say that all the two-letter words in this paragraph have something in common ...... or else! What's the common factor here?

Out-of-box thinking will be required to solve this brain riddle. 

17. What falls but never breaks?

What breaks but never falls?

18. Can you answer all seven of the following questions with the same word?

a. The word has seven letters.

b. Preceded God

c. Greater than God

d. Eviler than the devil

e. All poor people have it

f. Wealthy people need it

g. If you eat it, you will die

19. What is a word made up of 4 letters yet is also made up of 3. Although is written with 8 letters, and then with 4. Rarely consists of 6, and never is written with 5!

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20. In the olden days you are a clever thief charged with treason against the king and sentenced to death. But the king decides to be a little lenient and lets you choose your own way to die. What way should you choose? Remember, you're clever!

21. A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: 

The Wife said she was sleeping.

The Gardener was picking vegetables.

The Maid was getting the mail.

The Butler was cleaning the closet. 

The Cook was cooking breakfast.

The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know?

22. What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some leftovers?

23. This one is a crazy brain teaser question that will make you think out of the box. Can you understand the following equations?

2 + 2 = fish

3 + 3 = eight

7 + 7 = triangle 

This one is a very challenging logic puzzle. Let us see if you can solve it without looking at the answer

24. Rajesh and Evanthe become friends with Ashu. They ask her about her birthday. She gives the following probable dates of her birthday to both of them

Feb 13, Feb 14, Feb 19

April 15, April 17, April 21 

May 12, May 14

June 12, June 13, June 17

Then she tells separately the Month and Day of her birthday to Rajesh and Evanthe respectively. 

After this Rajesh and Evanthe talk about the following 

Rajesh: I don't know Ashu's date of birth. However, I know that Evanthe also does not know it.

Evanthe: I was not knowing it however now I know Ashu's birthday.

Rajesh: Then, I also know when Ashu's birthday is.

The question is when is Ashu's birthday? 

The next one is brain-bending brain teasers and one needs to think from many angles to solve this riddle.

25. Loretta's daughter Candace needs to be picked up from school every day. Loretta asks one of her colleagues to pick her up from school. Loretta devised a password mechanism to confirm that Candace goes with the correct person only.

The password on Monday was LCM16.

The password on Wednesday was RNW39.

What will the password for Friday be?

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I wish we can continue with this post, but good things always come to an end. However, I am not ending these brain teasers. Instead of updating the new brain teasers on the same post, I have started a new post titled "Out of Box Thinking Fun Brain Teasers with answers to Challenge your Mind" to continue with more Fun Brain Teasers.