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What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

tricky Age 8+ nature brain teaser

What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?

Hint: What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Ca…

✨ Australia was always the biggest island in the world, even before it was discovered
L3 · brain teaser

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

medium Age 8+ wordplay brain teaser

What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Hint: What word can be written forward…

✨ NOON
L3 · brain teaser

What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

easy Age 6+ wordplay what am i

What word contains all of the twenty six letters?

✨ Alphabet
L2 · what am i

What word doesn't belong in this group?

medium Age 8+ wordplay logic

What word doesn’t belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?

Hint: What word doesn’t belong in this group…

✨ What. It's pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme
L2 · logic

What word starting with BR, that with the addition of the letter E, becomes another word that sounds

hard Age 9+ wordplay brain teaser

What word starting with BR, that with the addition of the letter E, becomes another word that sounds the same as the first?

Hint: What word starting with BR…

✨ Braking becomes Breaking
L3 · brain teaser

What year comes next in this sequence: 1973 1979 1987 1993 1997 1999

hard Age 10+ math math

What year comes next in this sequence: 1973 1979 1987 1993 1997 1999

✨ 2003: they are prime years
L3 · math

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

medium Age 8+ time brain teaser

When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?

✨ Look at a clock When you add two hours to eleven o'clock, you get one o'clock
L3 · brain teaser

When I am young I am tall

easy Age 6+ object what am i

When I am young I am tall. When I am old I am short. What can I be?

✨ Fire A Candle
L1 · what am i

When I left, I didn't know where I was going; when I got there, I didn't know where I was; when I re

tricky Age 10+ science brain teaser

When I left, I didn’t know where I was going; when I got there, I didn’t know where I was; when I returned, I didn’t know where I had been. Who was I?

Hint: When I left…

✨ Christopher Columbus - when he found the Americas
L3 · brain teaser

When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark

easy Age 6+ object what am i

When I point up it’s bright, but when I point down it’s dark. What am I?

✨ A Light Switch
L2 · what am i

When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height

tricky Age 8+ nature brain teaser

When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?

Hint: When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark hi…

✨ The nail would be at the same height since trees grow at their tops
L3 · brain teaser

When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is n

hard Age 10+ wordplay brain teaser

When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.

Hint: When one does not know what it is…

✨ A riddle
L3 · brain teaser

When they are caught, they are thrown away

easy Age 6+ animal what am i

When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day. What are they?

Hint: When they are caught…

✨ Fleas
L1 · what am i

When you stop and look, you can always see me

medium Age 8+ nature what am i

When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you. What am I?

Hint: When you stop and look…

✨ I am the horizon
L2 · what am i

Where are the lakes that are referred to in the “Los Angeles Lakers?

hard Age 10+ sports logic

Where are the lakes that are referred to in the “Los Angeles Lakers?“

✨ In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers and kept the name when they moved west
L3 · logic

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

medium Age 8+ nature logic

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

✨ The North Pole
L2 · logic

Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

easy Age 6+ object what am i

Where will you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

Hint: Where will you find roads without cars…

✨ On a Map
L2 · what am i

Which bird does not belong in this group?

easy Age 6+ animal logic

Which bird does not belong in this group? Finch, gull, eagle, ostrich, or sparrow?

Hint: Which bird does not belong in this group…

✨ The Ostrich. It's the only bird that doesn't fly
L1 · logic

Which clock works best, the one that loses a minute a day, or the one that doesn't work at all?

hard Age 10+ time brain teaser

Which clock works best, the one that loses a minute a day, or the one that doesn’t work at all?

Hint: Which clock works best…

✨ The one that doesn't work is best as it will always be correct twice a day, but the one that loses a minute a day will not be correct again for 720 days (losing 720 minutes or 12 hours)
L3 · brain teaser

Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can b

tricky Age 8+ nature brain teaser

Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.

Hint: Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a…

✨ Peru: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil
L3 · brain teaser