Brain Teasers for children, are riddles and puzzles that require extra brain power. Playing brain teasers and mind games, keep the brain sharp and increase memory power. You can even play this game as party games for kids. Below are a few brain teasers and games for children.
Benefits Of Playing Brain Teasers For Children:
- Boosts overall brain activity
- Increased memory power
- Slows and reduces the risk of Dementia
- Improves memory and brain processing speed
- Reduces boredom
- Improves concentration
Top Brain Teasers And Games For Children:
Brain Teasers For Kids:
1. Question: There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where is the white house?
Answer: “In Washington, D.C.”
2. Question: You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire?
Answer: “You light the match first!”
3. Question: Mike is a butcher. He is 5’10” tall. What does he weigh?
Answer: “Meat”
4. Question: How far can a rabbit run into the woods?
Answer: “Halfway. After that, he is running out of the woods.”
5. Question: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: “A candle.”
6. Question: What has hands but can not clap?
Answer: “A clock.”
7. Question: What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: “The letter W.”
8. Question: What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
Answer: “A teapot”
9. Question: Which tire doesn’t move when a car turns right?
Answer: “A spare tire.”
10. Question: I’m not alive, but I have 5 fingers, What am I?
Answer: “A glove.”
11. Question: Which word is written incorrectly in a dictionary?
Answer: “The word incorrectly.”
12. Question: We kill, and we give life. We are either poison or fruit – you choose. What are we?
Answer: “Words.”
Brain Teasers For Adults:
1. Question: A lift is on the ground floor. There are four people in the lift including me. When the lift reaches first, floor, one person gets out and three people get in.
The lift goes up to the second floor, 2 people get out 6 people get in.
It then goes up to the next floor up, no-one gets out but 12 people get in. Halfway up to the next floor up the lift cable snaps, it crashes to the floor. Everyone else dies in the lift. How did I survive?
Answer: “I got out on the second floor!”
2. Question: A man walks into a restaurant and the waiter says, “Good day, Admiral.”
Why did the waiter call the man an Admiral?
Answer: “ Because he was wearing his uniform!”
3. Question: I have no voice, yet I speak to you.
I tell of all things in the world that people do.I have leaves, but I am not a tree.I have pages, but I am not a bride.I have a spine, but I am not a man.
I have hinges, but I am not a door.
I have told you all. I cannot tell you more.
What am I?
Answer: “A book.”
4. Question: A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells its owner that he is bankrupt. Why?
Answer: “He is playing Monopoly.”
5. Question: A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
Answer: “The man was bold.”
6. Question: Which travels faster? Hot or Cold?
Answer: “Hot is faster, coz you can catch a cold.
7. Question: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Micheal J. Fox has short one. Madonna doesn’t use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
Answer: “Surname.”
8. Question: First I threw away the outside and cooked the inside, then I ate the outside and threw away the inside, what did I eat?
Answer: “Corn on the Bob.”
9. Question: A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor isn’t the boys father. Then who is the doctor?
Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother.
10. Question: What has a mouth but cannot eat, what moves but has no legs and what has a bank but cannot put money in it?
Answer: “River.”
11. Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: “A stamp.”
12. Question: A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer: “4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple.”
Best Brain Games For Kids And Adults:
1. Bejeweled:
How to Play: Bejeweled is one of the most well-known brain games for kids, and adults like it too! Bejeweled is a colorful, easy game that helps build concentration and spatial thinking.
Move individual jewels to form “three-in-a-rows”. When you make a three-in-a-row, those three jewels disappear.
2. Tic Tac Toe Deluxe:
How to Play: Who doesn’t like tic tac toe? In this Deluxe version, you can play larger grid sizes than the usual 3×3.
You can play this version against either the computer or against a human opponent. In addition to the 3×3 grid, you can play 4×4, 6×6, and 8×8 grids. Tic Tac Toe Deluxe is one of the best brain games for kids, because kids are already familiar with the game.
By Supraja
