Brain teasers and Weekly Readers

[7Critter]

No high powered math required, just a bit of logic

Spoiler: Answer

27. add the weight of the two tool boxes with single tool, subtract weight of saw+hammer, divide by two. You got weight of toobox. 17 + 10 = 27. Also you now know saw weighs 3, hammer weighs 7.

 

[Duke]

Optical illusion has four women hidden in design – can you see them all?

 

[7Critter]

Spoiler: Answer

156. 1+5 =6, 6+10=16; 16+20=36; 36+40=76; 76+80=156. I suppose -1.5 could also be an answer.

 

[7Critter]

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?

Spoiler: Answer

In honor of April and America's favorite pastime, the answer is The catcher and the umpire

 

[Duke]

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[Debi]

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[JahaRa]

FIND 3 WORDS

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I remember those too. I found the 3 words, bloom, garden and farm.

 

[7Critter]

What number should replace the question mark ?

Spoiler: Answer

4. This one is solved by adding the numbers in each column. Each adds to 15. Therefor the number four will make column four add to 15.

 

[7Critter]

Inspired by today's live chat discussion

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip but I do get involved with everyone's dirty business. What am I?

Spoiler: Answer

a vacuum cleaner

 

[Duke]

Only ‘3D brains’ can spot the camel in this trippy optical illusion

This brain teaser is an autostereogram, which describes “two-dimensional (2D) images with repeating patterns that hide an underlying three-dimensional (3D) image.”

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