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[edit] Death

  1. A man approaches the center of a field with a package. As he gets closer to the center, he realizes he is going to die. The package could save his life, but he is unable to open it. How did he die?
  2. A man lies dead on the floor of a room. There is a rock on a table next to him. How did he die?
  3. A man is alone in his car with a bullet in his head. There are no weapons of any kind in the car. The bullet was responsible for his death. The windows are rolled up. there are no holes in the windows or in the car. How did he die?
  4. A man is asleep on his bed. A murderer walks in with a knife. The knife never makes contact with the sleeping mans body. When the murderer leaves the room, the sleeping man is dead. How did the man die?
  5. A man wakes up in the morning in his house. Has breakfast, he reads the news paper. That night, he has dinner, turns off his light and goes to bed. In the morning, he wakes up and reads in the newspaper that a ship crashed. He then drowns himself in the ocean. Why did he kill himself?
  6. A man walks into an elevator. As soon as he pushes the button for his floor, he realizes his wife is dead. How does he know she is dead and how did she die?
  7. Romeo and Juliet lie dead in their apartment. There is broken glass and a puddle of water on the floor. How did they die?
  8. There are two robots. One always lies, the other always tells the truth. You don't know which is which. There are two doors. One door leads to life, the other door leads to death. You don't know which is which. You are allowed to ask one question to one robot (but you don't know which one it will be). What one question can you ask to find out which door leads to life?
  9. Two people are found dead in a cabin in the woods with a goose. How did they die?

[edit] "Who am I?" and "What is it?"

  1. My posterior is lined with feathers. I have a very long neck and a pointy noise. What am I?
  2. I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost all children. What am I?
  3. The Pope has it but he does not use it. Your father has it but your mother uses it. Nuns do not need it. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one, Michael J. Fox's is quite small. What is it?
  4. There is a place on earth where yesterday comes after today. Where is it?
  5. The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
  6. If you've got it, you can't share it. If you share it, you haven't got it. What is it?
  7. Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. How is that man related to me?
  8. Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Cloth, leather, cardboard or paper, I greedily devour them all. What am I?
  9. It's thunder comes before it's lightening. It's lightening comes before it's clouds. It's rain dries everything it touches. What is it?
  10. What is greater than god, more evil than the devil. Rich people don't have any and destitute people have a lot of. If you eat it you will die. What is it?
  11. We are a famous rock group - all of us are dead. One of us were assassinated. Who are we?
  12. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
  13. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?
  14. It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?
  15. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
  16. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
  17. What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're all through with it?
  18. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
  19. I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch, Will soon turn red. Who am I?
  20. Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen. What am I?
  21. Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen; First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king.
  22. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not
  23. I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?

[edit] Others

  1. A crazy architect builds his house so all windows are facing south. He looks out a window and sees a bear. What color is it?
  2. A woman shoots his wife. She then holds him under water for five minutes and hangs him out to dry. Five minutes later, they go out to dinner. How is this possible?
  3. A person has a bee in their hand. What is in their eye?
  4. A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black. None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
  5. How do you put two jugs of water into a barrel and still tell which water came from which jug? You can't use dividers of any kind.
  6. What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
  7. There's a six-inch hole in the cement floor of a room. There is a ping pong ball in the hole. The hole is just wide enough for the ball and no bigger. You have 12 inches of rope, a ruler and scissors. How do you get the ping pong ball out of the hole?
  8. You are in a room with three light switches. In another room that you can't see in any way shape or form, there is a light bulb. You can only have one light switch in the "on" position at a time and you can only enter the room once. How do you figure out which switch turns on the bulb?
  9. A man is walking his dog down the street. He stops, turns to his right, and sees a red hotel and he knows that he's in trouble.
  10. There is a glass door and only certain things can go through it. Balls not bats. Trees not plants. Dollars not cents. What things can go through?
  11. What stays on its corner, but travels around the world?
  12. On island. Everyone has red or blue dots on their forehead. They are all expert logicians. Everyone sees everyone else at least once a day. If anyone realizes the color of their own dot, they die instantly. No one tells each other the color of their dots. You visit and party on the island and have a great time. When you go to leave, you tell them that at least one person has a red dot. Over time, everyone eventually dies.
  13. A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a "no left turn" sign, and he went the wrong way on a one-way street. then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still he didn't break any traffic law. why not?
  14. I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be.
  15. What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves And all men carry to their graves?


[edit] The Hobbit

  1. This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
  2. What has roots as nobody sees; Is taller than trees; Up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
  3. No-legs lay on one-leg, two legs sat near on three legs, four legs got some.
  4. An eye in a blue face, Saw an eye in a green face. 'That eye is like to this eye' Said the first eye, 'But in low place, Not in high place.'
  5. Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
  6. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
  7. Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.
  8. A box without hinges, key or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
  9. Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.


[edit] Logic games

  1. The name of the game is/isn't snappers. Rules 1-50. Snap snap snap. So on and so forth.
  2. Traveler. Name cities. Say how many nights you stay in a place. The people have to figure out what city you landed in.
  3. Four is cosmic. 10 is 3, 3 is 5, 5 is 4, 4 is comsic.
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