1. Laura and Lisa are the same age. Laura and Lisa have the same parents. Laura and Lisa look exactly alike. Laura and Lisa are NOT twins. How is this possible?

2. You have a barrel of water that weighs 50 pounds. You put something in the barrel. It now weighs 20 pounds. What did you put in the barrel?

3. I have land without mountains, rivers without water, and cities without people. What am I?

4. An airplane crashes in the middle of an ocean. Every single person on the plane dies except a married couple. How is this possible?

5. Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

6.  What starts with “e”, ends with “e”, and contains only one letter?

7. There is a town where no one shaves themselves. They let the barber do it. So who shaves the barber?

8.  There is a place on Earth where yesterday always follows today. Where?

9. A farmer has eight sheep. All but seven die. How may sheep does the farmer have left?

10. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in hundred years?

ANSWERS:

1. Laura and Lisa are two members of a set of triplets.

2. A hole.

3. A map.

4. The married couple is married to each other, so they are not single. And only the single people survived.

5. Meat.

6. Envelope.

7. No one shaves the barber. She’s a woman. And a good barber, too.

8. In a dictionary. Where “T” always comes before “Y”.

9. One. His last sheep is named “Seven”.

10. The letter “m”.