Let's hear your best brainteasers

[MasonH]

I have been going back and forth with a fellow TRF member about a few brainteasers, and I want to hear some of the ones everyone else has, since there are so many of them.

Here is one of my favorites:
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

Let's see what kind of puzzles and answers you guys can come up with.

 

[Gary Byrum]

Straight up is my answer. Now here's one for you and don't Google it. Who was Mighty Mouses's girlfriend?

 

[MasonH]

That answer would be correct!

As for the new question, I have NO idea whatsoever. I know he DID have one because I remember hearing the same question a while ago. Just can't remember the answer...dang.

Edit: I asked ma and pa and they said her name was Pearl. That right? Nobody googled it.

 

[closet astronaut]

A man lives in a 30 story building, he lives on the 30th floor. When ever he leaves the building he takes the elevator down but when he comes home he has to take the stairs, why: There's nothing wrong with the elevators, they're completely operational.

 

[hornet driver]

Which one---I'm so old this makes me sad ! I assume your talking about the cartoon one.

 

[MasonH]

A man lives in a 30 story building, he lives on the 30th floor. When ever he leaves the building he takes the elevator down but when he comes home he has to take the stairs, why: There's nothing wrong with the elevators, they're completely operational.

He is a midget and cannot reach the buttons!

 

[closet astronaut]

He is a midget and cannot reach the buttons!

Some one has this one before!

 

[MasonH]

Some one has this one before!

I have indeed!

Heres one: a hunter rides a white horse towards a herd of buffalo, who disperse after seeing the white horse coming. After dying the coat of the horse brown, the hunter sets off once again to hunt the buffalo. Only this time, they disperse even before they see the horse clearly. Why is this so?

 

[Gary Byrum]

That answer would be correct!

As for the new question, I have NO idea whatsoever. I know he DID have one because I remember hearing the same question a while ago. Just can't remember the answer...dang.

Edit: I asked ma and pa and they said her name was Pearl. That right? Nobody googled it.

We're gonna need a complete name here. We already know it ain't Polly Purebred, or Penelope Pitstop.

 

[MasonH]

We're gonna need a complete name here. We already know it ain't Polly Purebred, or Penelope Pitstop.

Pearl...pearl...pearl...p p p pureheart?

CANNOT believe my folks remembered that!

 

[Gary Byrum]

Pearl...pearl...pearl...p p p pureheart?

CANNOT believe my folks remembered that!

That has to be one of the hardest trivia questions I ever knew of. Pear Pureheart is correct. But you get no kudos for that. Hi 5 to mom & dad for me.

 

[hornet driver]

I have indeed!

Heres one: a hunter rides a white horse towards a herd of buffalo, who disperse after seeing the white horse coming. After dying the coat of the horse brown, the hunter sets off once again to hunt the buffalo. Only this time, they disperse even before they see the horse clearly. Why is this so?

Buffalo's are damn near blind so I figure the hunter should have taken a bath in dung instead of Old Spice ! He should have been downwind of the herd. Of course this does not take into account the white buffalo that was stalking him the whole time and later trampled his frail and withered body into the ground ,since starvation had set in because he was a lousy hunter and his dependents had already gone to the great festival of food in the sky .

 

[grouch]

Here's one that defies explanation: woman.

 

[blackjack2564]

Who was Mighty Mouses's girlfriend?


"Minnie Mouse"



.............. which way is up?

 

[hornet driver]

NOT !

 

[MasonH]

Buffalo's are damn near blind so I figure the hunter should have taken a bath in dung instead of Old Spice ! He should have been downwind of the herd.

Correct!

 

[MasonH]

Here's one that defies explanation: woman.

Agreed.

 

[Eric1]

I need exactly four gallons of water.
I give you two buckets, both are unmarked, one holds three gallons and the other holds five.
How do you do it?

 

[JAL3]

You travel one mile due south, then one mile due east and then one mile due north to return to your starting place. You are not at the north pole. Where are you.

 

[Eric1]

On the ocean?
Best I can do on one cup of coffee. LOL

 

[gdiscenza]

I need exactly four gallons of water.
I give you two buckets, both are unmarked, one holds three gallons and the other holds five.
How do you do it?

Fill the five gallon to the rim, then use that water to fill the three to the rim, leaving two in the five gallon bucket. Dump out the three gallon bucket and transfer the two gallons from the five to the three. Fill the five gallon bucket again to the rim, and use that water to fill the three gallon bucket completely. Assuming you have poured neatly without slop, there will be four gallons remaining in the five gallon bucket.

G.D.

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[JAL3]

On the ocean?
Best I can do on one cup of coffee. LOL

Nope. The location is on land.

 

[rocketgeek101]

Imagine your stuck on the bottom of the ocean with a cannonball strapped to each foot. Your running out of breath, and to make matters even worse, I Great White Shark has just spotted you and is starting to swim over. What do you do?

 

[Andy Greene]

You travel one mile due south, then one mile due east and then one mile due north to return to your starting place. You are not at the north pole. Where are you.

Equator ?

 

[JAL3]

Equator ?

Nope. If you started on the equator, to would end on the equator one mile east of where you began.

 

[blackbrandt]

Imagine your stuck on the bottom of the ocean with a cannonball strapped to each foot. Your running out of breath, and to make matters even worse, I Great White Shark has just spotted you and is starting to swim over. What do you do?

Stop Imagining.

 

[blackbrandt]

You travel one mile due south, then one mile due east and then one mile due north to return to your starting place. You are not at the north pole. Where are you.

South Pole?

 

[JAL3]

South Pole?

How are you going to go one mile south from the South Pole?

 

[blackbrandt]

Jump?

 

[JAL3]

Jump?

In a word: NO