A plane crashes
right at the US-Canada border line, which countries will the people bury
the survivors?
They won't bury
the survivors!
If there are 3
apples (that aren't yours) and you took 2 away, how many would you have?
2, because you
took two!
Some months have
31 days, how many months have 28 days?
They all have
28 days!
There are 8 sailors,
57 passengers, 73 baggages, 15 waiters/waitress and 4 cooks in your ship.
Do you know how old is the captain?
The captain is
you so your age will be the answer!
There are 10 people
taking an elevator to the top floor (40th floor) of a building. When
the elevator reaches up to the top floor (the doors of the elevator aren't
opened, everyone is still in the elevator), the elevator wires break apart
and the elevator goes down to the first floor immediately (with a BIG crash!).
When the cops arrived, they found out that no one was injured. Why
is that?
They all died
so no one was injured!
It usually takes
Jamie 1 hour to walk from the head of a train to the end of it. But
for some reason, today it took him a lot shorter! He walked with the same
pace. The train isn't moving. Why is that?
Don't know how
to explain!
Uncle Bill has
9 sons. Each sons have a younger sister. How many daughters
do he have?
He has only 1
daughter, being she is the youngest of the whole family!
If it takes 10
minutes to boil 1 egg, how many minutes will it take to boil 3?
10 minutes!0
Can you find three
errors:
Their are three
errers in this paragraph. Study it carefully and see if you can find
them all.
1st error: THEIR
is spelled THERE in this case!
2nd error: ERRERS
is spelled wrong! It is spelled like this: ERRORS
3rd error:
There are only TWO errors not THREE!
There are 10 fishes
in the pond and one of them died today. How many are left now?
10, because the
dead fish is not going to disappear!
A hunter saw 10
birds on a tree, and he shot one of the birds down. How many birds
are left on the tree?
They all flew
away of course!
A frog is in a
big box that is 3 metres high. The frog could jump 60cm high.
How many times does the frog have to jump in order to get out of the 3-metre
box?
The frog can
never escape from the box because it can only jump 60cm high. After
one jump, it then goes back down to the bottom because of gravity!
One day Jamie
goes to the park with his parent. When they arrived to the park,
his parent lit up a cigarrette and starts smoking, and Jamie goes to the
swings and starts playing. After a while, they start walking home,
and then saw a friend. His friend want to say something but Jamie
interupped, "This person's not my dad, I told you!" and Jamie did
not lie. Why?
Cause that adult
is his mother!
How can two oranges
be shared among three boys equally?
Make them into
3 glasses of orange juice with the same mass!
Which clock is
more accurate: a clock that is one minute faster than the real time or
a clock that have stopped and why?
The clock that
have stopped, because the clock that is a minute faster will always be
a minute faster but the clock that have stopped will be correct at the
time it stopped. Say the clock stopped at 12:00, and then the real
time might be also 12:00, but the other clock will be 12:01!
Why did the cuckoo
called 13 times in a cuckoo clock when it was only 12 o'clock?
Cause it needed
to be repaired as soon as possible!
A movie in a cinema
starts at 2:30pm and Jody got a ticket for it. Jody stared at her
watch and it says 12:30pm, so that means she still have 2 hours left until
the movie started. She called a friend and they both met at a restaurant
for lunch for an hour. After she went shopping and after a while
she checked the time again. It was 2:10pm. She knew she will
have enough time but she thought, 'Oh well, I'll wait until the movie starts
anyway!". She drove for 10 minutes and arrive at the cinema at exactly
2:25pm. But the movie has already started! Why is that?
The watch was
at a wrong time!
2 fathers and
2 sons went hunting for hares in a forest. After one hour they
each got one, but why did they only have 3 hares?
There were only
3 people. The father's son has a son himself, so the father is also
a son. In other words, the "grandpa", "father" and "son" (and the
"father" is the father of the "son" and son of the "grandpa").
How many times
can you take 5 from 25?
Once, then you'll
be taking 5 from 20!
Each side of his
house faces south. Where does he live?
North Pole...
How can you make
eleven sticks ( | | | | | | | | | | | ) into nine without any math (no
adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing, NO MATH)?
Connect the lines
so it spells N I N E.
An old man lives
on the 15/F of an apartment. When he goes out he goes to G/F, but
when he comes back he goes to 10/F, and then take the stairs to 15/F.
He takes the same elevator. How come?
He's too short
to reach the 15/F button.
A dog is tied
to leash, or something like a rope, which is 5m long, but it is able to
run to a bone lying 10m away. The leash does not break apart or streched.
How come?
The other side
of the leash is free (not tied around to anything)!
What livings thing
has 4 legs when it is young, 2 legs when it is older, and 3 legs when it
is old?
Humans!
When humans are babies, they crawl, so they have 4 legs. When they
get older they walk with two legs. As they get older, they need a
cane to help them walk.
There is a lamp
and a candle in the dark room. What should you light first?
A match.
You have just
arrived from a small town and wanted to get a haircut. You asked
a young boy where the barbershop(s) is/are located. The boy said,
"There are only 2 barbershops in this small town, one is a block ahead
and the other is near that museum over there." You went to the barbershop
near the museum and saw a messy barber that hasn't shaved for a long time,
and hair was all around the floor. You went to the other barbershop
and peek through the window, seeing a cleanly shaved barber and the place
was also very clean. Why did you go back to the other barbershop?
There's only
2 barbershops in this town. If the barber one block ahead is cleanly
shaved, then he must have gone to the other messy barbershop for a haircut!
Put only one straight
line to make this statement true (not changing the equal sign to an unequal
sign): 5 + 5 + 5 = 550
Put a diagonal
line / to the first + sign and the statement will be true: 545 + 5 = 550
Why are 1966 pennies
worth almost twenty dollars?
1966 pennies
equals $19.66, which is worth almost $20.00.
A farmer ownes
4 pink pigs, 1 brown pigs and 4 black pigs. How many of the pigs can say
that it is the same color as another pig in the farm?
None, because
pigs can't talk!
Tommy and Casey
found a long tube. It is big enough so that each kid can crawl in
from one end to another. If both kids go into the tube from opposite
ends, can they crawl the whole length of the tube and come out the other
end?
Say Tommy and
Casey are at opposite ends (Tommy at the right, Casey at the left).
Let Tommy crawl through the tube first, and after he climb the entire length,
he will be at the left side with Casey. Then Casey crawls the entire
tube. Then they will be in the opposite ends.
A rope was cut
once but after that cut, it is still 1 whole rope (which means only one
piece, not 2 pieces). How come?
The rope was
circle "O", after that cut, so it is still one piece of rope.
One person's face
is facing north, and the other person is facing south. Without turning
their heads, can they face each other?
Yes, because
they are already facing each other...
An old man was
walking down the sidewalks. Then suddenly it started raining.
That old man didn't bring an umbrella, and he doesn't have a hat, and he
didn't even bring his raincoat with him, and he didn't look for covers,
but the rain didn't wet his hair. Why is that?
The old man is
bald (has no hair)!
I don't have any
siblings. That guy's father is my father's son. Who is that
guy?
That guy is me!
A man want to
cross a bridge without paying to the guard who sleeps at the middle of
the bridge. The guard wakes up every 3 minutes, and it is impossible
to cross the bridge before he wakes up. If the guard sees people
crossing the bridge without paying, he will send them back. How can
the man cross the bridge without paying?
Before the guard
wakes up, pretend you are going to the side that you were and then when
the guard sees you he then sends you back to the other side (where you
want to go)...because the guard thought you came from the other side to
go to this side.
A little boy likes
to fool around with people. One day he went to a pig butcher and
said "I want something not fat, not lean, with no bones, and with no meat!"
The butcher knows immediately what the little boy wants. Do you know
what he wants?
Pig's blood....
There are two
bridges: one is large and tall, the other one is short and small.
The small bridge is flooded once, but the large bridge is flooded twice.
Do you know why?
First, the water
flooded both the large and small bridge, then the water goes down halfway
so the taller bridge isn't flooded anymore, but the shorter one is still
flooded. Then the water goes back up, so the large bridge is flooded
the second time. Then the water goes back down.
One cat can catch
a mouse in 5 minutes. How many cats can catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
5 cats.
One cat can catch 20 mice in 100 minutes, so 5 cats can catch 100 mice
in 100 minutes.
Mary weighs 39
pounds, and she has to bring two metal balls across a small bridge.
Each metal ball weighs 1 pound. The bridge can only hold weight up
to 40 pounds. How can Mary bring the two metal balls with her at
the same time and cross the bridge without the bridge breaking apart?
While going across,
toss one of the metal balls up high and when it comes back down, throw
the other one and catches the one that comes back down. Continue
to do this until she reaches the other side.
Without bouncing
a ball off anything, hit it with anything, or tie anything to it, can you
throw it so it goes a distance, stops, reverses its motion and goes the
opposite way?
Yes, throw it
up.
How many circles/squares
are there? Which has more?
There are 11
squares and 9 circles. There are more squares than circles.
Top left corner is an example: the two big squares were overlapping, so
the little square is counted another square
Family "A", "B", and "C" are enemies to each other. They have to go to the other side which the gates are located. "A" family goes to "A" gate, B goes to B, C goes to C, without meeting each other on the way. How?
A question for
ICQ people:
Jacqueline always
plays on the ICQ. She has the ICQ for about 1 year. She went
on it almost daily. One day, when she went on, she saw ALL the people
in her list online!! Do you think it is possible?
Yes, it is possible
to have everyone in your list online. Jacqueline only has 20 people,
and those people always goes online like Jacqueline ^_^....
A man was digging
his backyard to see if there were ancient remains. He found a box,
and inside the box there were few coins. They say 58 BC. He
thought to himself, "Oh my gosh! These coins are ancient, and I'll
be rich if I sell them to the museums!!" He showed them to a friend,
but the friend knows immediately that they were fake. Do you know
why?
How did those
people from 58 BC know that there is BC if they don't know there will be
an AD. (In case you don't know: BC[before Christ] = BCE[Before the
common era], AD[anno Domini] = CE[common era])
How can penguins
survive in the Arctic?
Penguins don't
live in the Arctic (North Pole), they live in the Antarctic (South Pole).
The sidewalks
were very quiet; there were only few people on the sidewalks. There
were no cars on the roads. The streetlights were all off and the
moon is covered by the clouds. An old man was walking on the silent
sidewalks, and then he dropped a coin on the ground. He knew exactly
where the coin is. Why?
It was an early
sunny morning, so no streetlights were on, you couldn't really see the
moon and many people are still sleeping at this time so the sidewalks and
roads are still quiet. The old man isn't blind so he knows where
the coin is when he dropped it.
A man was killed
in 1958 and buried in 1957. Why?
The man was killed
in late Demeber 1958 BC (BCE), and was buried few days after his death
in 1957 BC (BCE) of early January.
There are 5 passengers
on the bus. At the first station, 2 passengers came off. At
the second station, 3 passengers came on. At the third station, 4
passengers came on. How many people are in the bus up to this point?
There are 11
people in the bus, remember the bus driver is also in the bus..........
There are 5 passengers
on the bus. At the first station, 2 passengers came on, and then
at the second station 3 passengers came off. How many passengers
were in the bus?
There are 5 passengers
because I asked "How many passengers WERE in the bus?".........
One person knows
it, two person doesn't know it, three person doesn't know it. What
is it?
Fart....^__________________^
Use any operations
(plus, minus, multiply, divide) so that eight 8's (88888888) equals 1000.
888+88+8+8=1000
There are 26 letters
in the alphabet. ET goes home and only 21 letters were left.
Do you know why?
ET goes home
on UFO....
How can you drop
an egg on a concrete floor without breaking it?
The concrete
floor will not break because an egg was dropped on it!
There is a hole
on both of my socks I just bought today? Why?
It's weird to
have no holes on your socks....how can you ever wear one without having
one hole on your sock?
A healthy wife
married a healthy husband and gave birth to a baby that has only one left
hand! Is the baby healthy?
Everyone has
1 left hand! It's weird to have two of them!
A guard dog is
in front of his master's mansion. Every time it sees someone walking
past it, it will bark for 30 minutes. How many people (minimum) have
to walk past it so it bark for 6 hours unstopped?
One person....just
keep walking....
A policeman saw
a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't give
him a ticket. Why not?
The truck driver
was walking.