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You guessed it.
Trick questions are designed to trick your mind.
Apparently, the more you look (or think about it), the less you see.
So,how confident are you that these questions cant trick you?
What are you waiting for, smartypants?
Lets start this brain game and test your ability to answer the trick questions weve gathered for you below.
You might just need it.
Or maybe, they simply like challenges and riddles.
This list is the perfect solution to keep them engaged and busy for at least a while.
You have no use of it unless it is broken.
How many months have 28 days?
Does it take magic for a leopard to change its spots?
It can simply move from one spot to another.
Answer correctly: what contains ten letters but only starts with gas?
Not a car, but an automobile!
But how did the car know he was there?
It all happened in the daytime.
Only one thing goes up and down yet remains in the same place.
What starts and ends in e but only contains one letter?
How many animals did Moses allow to enter the ark?
Moses wasnt on the ark.
There are two words that, when combined, hold the most letters.
What words are they?
What is something that only has one foot, one head, and four legs?
The girl fell off the bottom rung.
Question: A young boy was practicing soccer.
How is this possible?
The boy kicked it upwards.
What is something with one head, four legs, but many hungry mouths?
What can you make but no one, not even you, would be able to see?
Aunt Petunias barn door was left open one night, and all but seven sheep didnt escape.
How many sheep are there left?
It gets so much bigger the more you take away from it.
It has a lot of holes, but it can still hold water.
What is something that has hands but never learned to clap?
What is that thing that has three feet but can never walk?
What kind of bird is so strong it can lift a car?
15 Tricky Riddles for Adults
Tricky questions can stump even the most intelligent individuals.
You dont think so?
Try answering these riddle questions!
You see a truck driver going down a one-way street the wrong way.
He passes at least ten cops but doesnt get stopped.
Because he was walking on the sidewalk.
All your friends are married.
Youre riding an electric train at 120mph moving north with the wind blowing east at 15 mph.
Which way does the smoke blow?
There is no smoke.
Its an electric train.
What do you call a person who doesnt have all his fingers in one hand?
Most people only have half their fingers on one hand.
Legally speaking, is it possible for a man to go and marry his widows sister?
Eight men sitting on your new couch, when three legs break.
Five men stand up and leave.
How many legs are left?
The legs of the three remaining men and the remaining couch leg.
Do you share the same parents?
Are your birthdays on the same day?
Both girls answered yes to all your questions.
But when you asked if they were twins, they said no.
Because they are triplets
29.
Before Mount Everest was discovered as the world tallest peak, was the tallest mountain in the world?
Just because it wasnt discovered yet doesnt mean it wasnt the highest mountain in the world
30.
A farmer wanted three eggs for breakfast.
He went out to see his rooster laid 15 eggs.
How many breakfasts could he eat?
Because roosters dont lay eggs.
Do you think its possible to ever to lift an elephant with one hand?
No, youll never find an elephant with one hand.
Who were those guys?
The umpire and the catcher.
A teenage boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room, badly needing an operation.
But the ER doctor refused to do it, saying, this is my son.
But the doctor wasnt the boys father.
How is that possible?
Because the doctor was the girls mother.
Ordinary people can do it because concrete floors are extremely hard to crack.
Suppose there is a terrible plane crash on the border of the United States and Canada.
Only half the people survived.
Ethically speaking, where would you bury the survivors?
When a plane crashes, you dont bury the survivors.
Chad went outside and into the pouring rain without an umbrella, hat, or protection.
How come not a single hair in his head got wet?
It will take no time at all.
The pool has already been dug.
Snow boots sound cool, but whats the biggest problem about them?
They will melt when the temperature rises.
Whenever the ocean meets the beach, what does it say?
What is always answered, yet never asks a question?
What can be caught by anybody, but thrown by none?
What do you call a room that has no walls?
What do you call something that has four wheels and flies?
How would you survive?
They cant get a banana from a coconut tree!
There are two things you’re free to never eat at breakfast.
How can you make the number one vanish?
Add a G and suddenly, its gone.
What do you really find at the end of a rainbow?
Are you ready to test your wits?
See if you’re able to solve these riddles!
How many letters are there in the alphabet?
25 because the p is in toilet.
What is the beginning of everything?
The letter E.
51.
What makes an island similar to the letter T?
Both are in the middle of the water.
No matter what, everything always ends the same way.
With the letter G.
553.
What five-letter word becomes smaller when you add two letters, and even smaller when you add three?
Without asking Google, what do you think is the universal center of gravity?
The letter V.
55.
What kind of cheese is made backward?
Honey always starts with this letter.
13 Entertaining Number Questions
Some people really like working with numbers.
Numbers are useful for more than just addition and subtraction.
The following logic-bending questions are all number-based and guaranteed to frustrate everybody you ask them.
One bird got shot, and the remaining nine flew away!
Why are there only three slices of pizza eaten?
The dinner group included the grandmother, her daughter, and her granddaughter (her daughters daughter)
59.
The rungs are one foot apart.
During the tide, the water level rises at a rate of 12 inches per hour.
How long will it take before five rungs get covered in water?
Because the boat will rise as the tide goes up, so will the ladder.
Because calling your dogs tail, a leg doesnt make it one.
A man dies from old age on his 24th birthday.
How is that possible?
He was born on February 29th.
What letter instantly turns ninety-eight into 720?
x because 90 x 8 = 720
63.
How did an old rancher fire one shot that got all 100 cows?
He was taking their photo.
Three kids are playing on the beach.
If they put all piles of sand together, how many piles of sand would there be?
Its going to be one big pile of sand.
How many sides do you does a circle have?
Two: inside and outside.
How can you write 11 using three lines?
How many times can you take our two from 100?
Answer: Only once.
Once youve taken out the first two, youll be taking out two from 98.
At what instance is 1 + 1 not equal to 2?
When you make a mistake!
How many bricks would it take to complete a house made of bricks?
It will only take the last brick to complete a brick house!
10 Tricky Questions that Play on Words
Word games are always fun.
There are so many great ways you might create frustratingly tricky questions by playing with the meaning of words.
How do you spell enemy in only three letters?
What is the one word spelled incorrectly in every English dictionary?
Besides Tuesday and Thursday, what other days of the week start with the letter T?
Its a 10-letter word, but it has thousands of words in it.
Whats the only word that grows when you add two letters to it?
What three letters can transform a girl into a woman?
Is it possible for Friday to come before Thursday?
If you look them up in the dictionary.
If you and I are posing to take a photo, what is between us?
Question: What is a word that gets pronounced differently if you capitalize the first letter?
Your mind has undoubtedly been put through its paces today, but bear with us a bit.
This is one more collection of questions we need to ask.
Although we cant promise it will get easier in this round.
But you probably know by now: trick questions are not hard.
They are just tricky.
What do you say we give it another spin with these mind teasers?
If you threw a yellow stone in the red sea, what would the stone come back as?
(Stop overthinking!)
Question: What building has more stories than any other building in the entire world?
Why do you think that is?
Because you cant take a photo using a wooden leg.
In the next half, youll already be walking out of the woods.
Annas mother has four daughters.
The eldest was named April.
The second one is May, and the next is June.
What is the name of the last daughter?
Which English word holds the same pronunciation even if you take away four out of its five letters?
A little boy found 12frogsinside a dry well.
He shot one and killed it this morning and killed another one at noon.
So, how many frogs are still in the well?
All 12 of them, including the two dead frogs.
What is it: if you have five, you have five.
And if you have four, you have four.
But if you only have one, then you have none?
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
I look like an elephant.
I look as big as an elephant.
But I dont weigh like an elephant.
In fact, I dont have any weight at all.
The shadow of the elephant.
Its Tricky to Answer Trick Question!
We can surely agree by now that its so hard to answer tricky questions!
The reason for this difficulty is down to three core factors.
Because the answers are usually hidden, most of the time in plain sight.
You might be looking for answers somewhere when its already staring you in the face.
Sometimes,answers are sometimes too simple and literal.
And that doesnt help.
Itsdesigned as a con.
Obviously, youll get tricked a time or two.
And if you faltered over some of the tricky questions that weve included in the list, completely understandable.
Its all in good fun!
