Archive for category: Weekly Mind Bender

What rock group consists of four famous men, but none of them sing?

What is brown, has a head and a tail, but no legs, and is extinct in Canada?

Find 2 rhyming words to complete the answers here…

1. Household hair tool
2. Impoverished shop
3. King Bozo’z head gear
4. Just purchased loafer
5. How come tears
6. King rodents
7. Just purchased church seat
8. Ice demand payment
9. Colorless escargot
10. In-line fence door

What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word.  Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left.

What is the word?

In a school, three rings of a bell indicate recess time. Most of the students try to get from their classroom to the schoolyard before the third ring of the bell.  There is a ten-second interval between each ring.

If two seconds are used to store their books, how much time is available to reach the schoolyard before the third bell rings?

Solve the following:

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Mr. Black, Mr. Brown and Mr. Green are eating at a restaurant.
Each is wearing a coloured tie.  The ties are black, brown and green in colour.

Suddenly the man wearing the green tie says :
“Did you notice that our ties are the same colour as our names but no one is wearing a tie similar to his name?”  “Strange, indeed,” says Mr. Black.

Question:  What colour tie was each man wearing ?

How many squares are there?

Which seven-letter word contains dozens of letters?

Fourteen of the kids in the class are girls. Eight of the kids wear blue shirts. Two of the kids are neither girls or wear a blue shirt. If five of the kids are girls who wear blue shirts, how many kids are in the class?