Brain Teasers and Puzzles

this may be slightly retarded but w/e. k guy rocks up to the er. weak confused says he feels "very very" unwell and "i cannot i cannot" walk very well. says hes been eating only white rice for months. initial thoughts?

Hey people, how are you doing? I heard this couple days ago and tried to figure it out myself but I seem not to be able to:( It goes like this: |=|A cow and a goat eat all the grass of a pasture in 45 days. The (same) cow and a duck eat the grass in 60 days, and the duck and the goat east the grass in 90 days. The cow eats the same amount of grass as the duck and the goat together. But you have to take into consideration that new grass grows continuously.|=| At first I got 45 days, then I got 41.5... days but I think neither of them is the answer. Any suggestion?

What language can I speak to say that 1+1=1?

This one is phrased differently for a different answer. I am in a box in a house. But I'm not in a box, nor a house. What am I?

Two guys walk into a restaurant. One says "Can I have a glass of H2O?" and the other one says "I'll have H2O too". After both men receive their drinks and drink them, one of them dies. Why?

three men have watches that are all oddly set. the first man's watch gets five minutes faster every hour. he reports the current time as 3:15 pm. the second man's watch counts backward one third as fast. he reports the time as 2:30 pm. the third man's watch moves at a standard pace, but marks 20 hours in a day, and 100 minutes in an hour. he reports the time as 5:45 pm. will it ever be the case that the three men report the same time?

During the era of the dinosaurs, an alien vessel landed on Earth and set a device down on Earth to collect animal species according to their weight, but before they returned to get it, their ship got destroyed. Now, a man get's out of his truck in the middle of a field and finds a line miles long where 3 of various animals lined up, like such as deer, alligators and even small dinosaurs. They weren't dead and decayed, they were somehow preserved but motionless. Then, the man notices in the distance that a small spherical machine was rolling towards him at 5 miles per hour. But, the man could outrun the machine. He didn't know what to do, but he ran away, a mile away, …

One day a little girl put a nail in a stem of the tree to mark her height. She has aged 10 years and comes back, but sees that the height hasn't changed. Why is this so?

Okay, so me and two friends were driving on an open road in the middle of the day. It was slightly overcast. All of a sudden, all I could see was white, and then suddenly red. It was white for a half second then red for another half second. We all looked at each other and were like, "Whoa." There was no thunder afterward. The strange thing is that it wasn't like a flash of light like someone setting the flash of their camera off in your eye, it was more like someone put a white sheet of paper in front of my eyes and then a red one. All of my friends agree with this statement. If it was something like ball lightning wouldn't it make our vision slightly blurr…

I am in a house that I built using just a saw. I have made a window on each side, and each window faces south. Suddenly a bear walks by. What colour is the bear?

out of a set of 12 lights, 3 are burned out. you have a set of 12 light switches in front of you numbered 1-12, with the 12 lights behind a glass wall. each light switch will toggle the state of 2 lights. the 2 lights it toggles will be 2*n %13, and 3*n %13. for example, light switch 7 will toggle light 1, and light 8. is it possible that: no matter what three lights are burned out, you can light up the remaining 9 lights?

In what game can you kill two birds with one stone?

How much wood does a wood-chuck chuck?

I'm in a room surrounded with all walls, and nothing else but air and myself with no cloths on or any possessions or stolen or borrowed items. The walls are 2 feet thick steel. How did I escape?

What's a bird that packs a whalop?

There were sons and daughters of immigrants who I think were born I think where New Mexico is, but the children were born citizens, but the parents broke no laws my immigrating there. How is this possible if legally anyone born in the US is suppose to be a citizen of the US?

well here is how it goes... someone above you posts a riddle... you try to solve it... then you post a riddle for the person below you to solve! oh... and put the difficulty in parentheses [] and when you solve...try to explain how you came up with the answer [easy] if a tree falls with nothing around the sound vicinity to hear it... does it make sound

If there are apples and no oranges, what else are there and none of?

You are in an empty room apart from an Xbox 360 controller on the floor and a note under it.... The note reads: You have one attempt of getting out. If you press the wrong button then you will fall into a pit of fire. However, if you press the right button, you will be released to freedom. Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do you do? Spoiler answers only please. If you don't know how, please ask SFN staff or myself. Thanks

Or, I should say it's one of the hardest puzzles to have any confidence that your answering it correctly if you don't already know the answer, and here it goes... Why?

3 gambling musicians, all playing for gold. Only 1 can win the bet, but they all take home gold. How is this possible?

An explorer encounters an isolated tribe in the Amazon. This tribe however, is cannibalistic and are hungry. However, they say to the explorer "You may choose how you are eaten: If your next statement is the true, we will cut your head off. If you lie, we will boil you alive. If we think your trying to confuse is in any way, we will boil you alive". What is the only way they would be forced to let the explorer go?

I am in a room with only a table and a mirror, nothing else, it's completely closed off which means I have limited air, there's no chimney or windows or etc. How did I escape?

Hi, An event A happens very 13 years Another event happens every 17 years. How to calculate when they happen together again Thanks in Advance Sara

If this is a centimeter... Then what is this? Answer here. (Hope I did this right!) It is an erg, because it is a dyne centimeter!