Brain tickling facts & riddles that are sure to make you grin as you think! read on

Languages, actions, superstitions, thoughts and ideas are sometimes mind boggling. They tickle our brains to find answers behind their origin, the reason behind their creation and the meaning behind some accepted facts.

Here are some interesting brain teasers that will surely make you sit up and think. Enjoy these and try and make sense out of them.

1. If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?
2. Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or the C?
3. Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?
4. Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn’t it be called double V?
5. Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and it just takes 75-100 years to fully work.
6. Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty.
7. The word “swims” upside-down is still “swims”
8. 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.
9. If you replace “W” with “T” in “What, Where and When”, you get the answer to each of them.
10. If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before.

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Now that your brain is working in leaps and bounds, try and take this riddle test.

1. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
2. What starts with the letter P, ends with the letter E and has thousands of letters?
3. What begins with T, finishes with T and has T in it?
4. What word begins and ends with an ‘e’ but only has one letter?
5. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
6. What is the longest word in the English language?
7. Which word is the odd one out – Stun, Ton, Evil, Letter, Mood, Bad, Snap, Straw?
8. What four days of the week start with the letter T?
9. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment and never in a thousand years?
10. What occurs twice in a week, once in a year but never in a day?

Answers to the above questions –

1. The letter C.
2. The Post Office!
3. A teapot
4. Envelope
5. There are 18. Three in ‘the’, seven in ‘English’ and eight in ‘alphabet’.
6. Smiles – Because there is a ‘mile’ between the two S’s.
7. If you read them all backwards, letter is the only one that does not make another word.
8. Tuesday, Thursday, today and tomorrow.
9. The letter M.
10. The letter E.