100+ Brainteasers with answers for kids and adults

If Thanksgiving is always on Thursday, then what day is Christmas always on?

A woman was shot, drowned, and hanged because of a crime. Did she commit the crime?

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?

A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?

What is special about these words: job, polish, herb?

Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?

What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?

What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes but not in decades, years, or days?

What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don’t want to use it?

A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first: the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?

A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, is a great woman. What is the word?

In my hand I have two coins that are newly minted. Together, they total 30 cents. One isn’t a nickel. What are the coins? 

What kind of running means walking?