Easy
1. Two children are born to the same mother, at exactly the same time on the same day in the same year and yet they are not twins. How?
2. How far can you run into the woods?
3. If there are three apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
Hard
4. I am staring at a photo of someone. I don’t have any brothers or sisters and yet that man’s father is my father’s son. Who am I looking at?
5. A woman shoots her husband and then holds him under water for over 5 minutes before hanging him up. However, a few minutes later they both go out and celebrate their anniversary. How can this be so?
6. One fine sunny morning a ship was in the harbour when all of a sudden it started to sink. There was nothing wrong with the ship and the weather conditions were calm yet there it sank, right in front of everyone. Why?
7. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every place. What am I?
Super Hard
8. An old man wanted to leave all of his money to one of his three sons, but he didn’t know which one he should give it to. He gave each of them a few coins and told them to buy something that would be able to fill their living room. The first man bought straw, but there was not enough to fill the room. The second bought some sticks, but they still did not fill the room. The third man bought two things that filled the room, so he obtained his father’s fortune. What were the two things that the man bought?
9. A king and one of his knights order a gin and tonic from the bar. Unknown to them, the drink has been poisoned. The King gulps his down in one go and has a bit of a tummy ache but nothing more. The knight sips his slowly but dies a few hours later. Why didn’t the king die?
10. A woman went to a pet shop to buy a parrot. Inside the pet shop there was a parrot with a sign on its cage that said “Parrot repeats everything it hears”. Great thought the woman, so she bought the parrot and for two weeks she spoke to it constantly and yet the parrot didn’t utter a word. She returned the parrot to the shop but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?