Mental Floss
Friday is quiz/test day. That means mental floss.
Here’s todays batch of brain teasers…
- What do reindeer have that no other animals have?
- A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick. I’m just betting you can’t count.)
- It takes three days to go from A to B, but it takes four days to go from B to A. Why?
- A man is holding a bucket of water (not ice) with no lid. He turns the bucket upside down, but the bucket remains full of water. How come? He is not spinning the bucket, nor is he in space.
- Which doesn’t fit. Seven, Button, Which, Battery, Run, This, Bounce, Is, or That?
- A pen and a bottle of ink cost $1.10. The pen costs exactly $1.00 more than the ink. What does each cost? (Not a trick. I know some of you have math issues.)
If’n you want the answers, you have to go to Brainscramble.com and send me an e-mail.
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