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Brainteasers 26:
More Tricky Ones


1. In a dish of red, yellow, and green M&M's candy, all but four are red, all but four are yellow, and all but four are green. How many M&M's are in the dish all together?

2. In Egypt, is a man allowed to marry his widow's sister?

3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, and gloves. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off too, but somehow it manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?

4. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?

5. A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

6. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of (the same month of. the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

7. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and point it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out. Why?

8. A big fat Indian and a small thin Indian were sitting outside a teepee, each smoking a pipe. The little Indian was the son of the big Indian, but the big Indian was not the little Indian’s father. How come?

9. Farmer Higgs owns three pink pigs, four brown pigs, and one black pig. How many of Higgs’s pigs can say that it is the same color as another pig on Higgs’s farm?

10. Tom says his grandfather is only six years older than his father. How is that possible?

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