BRAIN TEASERS
& .RIDDLES
Teachers can use these riddles during their English lesson to make it fun and interesting. It can attract their students attention and help them learn in fun. Come and try it.....
 
 1. Its more powerful than go
          its more evil then the devil
          poor people have it
          rich people want it
          What is it?
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2. What row of numbers comes next?

       1
       11
       21
       1211
       111221
       312211
       13112221 

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3. A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
       Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

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4. What weighs nothing, can be seen with the human eye, but if you put it in 
        something it will make it weigh less?
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5. Back in the old days a guy rides into town on friday, leaves the town on friday, 
      but only stays in the town for three days. how did he do it?
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6. What has an ear but cannot hear, has a colonel but no army?
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7. A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.
       How can this be possible?
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8. A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried  
      one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier 
      load and why?
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9. A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I    
       write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me RM 50, 
       but if I cannot, I will pay you RM 50."
       The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the 
       carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.
       In the end the boy ended up paying the man RM 50. How did the man win the bet?
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10. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place  
          would you be in now?
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ANSWERS:

1. Nothing

2.The next row is
    1113213211
    Starting with the second line, every line describes the line before it. In writing, it is:
   One One
   Two Ones
   One Two One One
   etc.
   etc. 
3. He's lying. Even though he's lying when he says "everything" he says is a lie, some of the things he     
    says can be a lie, and this is one of them.

4.A hole
5.His horse's name was Friday
6.Corn
7.ALL the children are boys, so 1 half are boys and so is the other half.
8.The farmer's load was heavier. His hired help only carried two sacks, while the farmer carries one sack,  
    but his sack is a sack of grain. The hired help only carried 2 sacks

9.The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.

10.You would be in 2nd. You thought first place, huh? Well, you passed the guy in second place, not first.