At WiseUp Team Building, we are passionate about challenging mind and body, and setting people of all ages exciting problems to solve. Here we bring you 5 of our favourite brain teasers. See if you can work out the solutions without cheating!
1. The Dark Cabin
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You are alone in a cabin, it is completely dark, and you only have one match. In the cabin there is a fireplace, a candle and an old newspaper. Which do you light first?
2. Bus Stop
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You are driving a bus to London. At the first stop two ladies get on. At the second stop, a man and two children get on, and one of the ladies gets off. At the third stop two more men get on the bus and another of the ladies gets off. The bus is red and it is raining outside. But what is the driver’s name?
3. The Liar and the Truth Teller
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You are walking along a long road, and you come across a section where the road splits into two. Two men stand in front of each of the paths. One always lies and the other always tells the truth. Along one road will lead to treasures beyond your wildest dreams, whilst the other will lead to nothing, but you are only allowed to ask each man one question to work out which is which.
What question do you ask?
4. The Fox, Chicken and Grain
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You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain that you need to get to the other side of a raging river. Unfortunately, your boat is only big enough for one of the three items at a time and if you leave the fox with the chicken or the chicken with the grain, they will be eaten.
How do you get everything to the other side of the river?
5. Three Lights, Three Switches
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You are in a room which has nothing in it but three switches on the wall, and a door. The door leads to another room which contains three light bulbs. You want to work out which light bulb corresponds to each switch but once you open the door, you can no longer touch the switches.
How do you work out which switch is connected to each lightbulb?
Solutions
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1. The match of course!
2. YOU are driving the bus.
3. In order to find out the correct path, ask both men ‘if I ask the other man, what road will they tell me is the correct road?” The liar will tell you that the honest man would choose the bad path and the honest man would correctly tell you that the liar would also choose the bad path. Now all you need to do is go down the other path for everything your heart could desire!
4. Take the chicken over on the boat first. Then the fox but bring back the chicken. Then leave the chicken but take the grain and finally do one last trip to pick up the chicken again.
5. This is a tricky one! Turn on the first two light switches and leave them for a few minutes. Then turn off the middle switch. Go through the door and look at the lights. The light that is on will belong to the first switch and one of the lightbulbs will be off but warm meaning it belongs to the second switch. The light that is cold and off will belong to the third switch.
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