Break the ice with these funny brain teasers for kids and all ages! You can also use this as a warm up for a full lesson or maybe to fill in the remaining time at the end of class. Brain teasers are good to stimulate students to think quick and critically! Game Type: Individual, Team For more, visit: http://englishteaching101.com/esl-warm-up-activities-with-free-powerpoint-download/

1. BRAIN TEASERS

2. How do you spell candy
with just two letters?
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3. Answer
c and y
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4. RULE
Think outside the box.
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How can 5 minus
2 equal 4?

6. Answer
IV
FIVE take away two letters F and
E which leaves IV which is 4 in
Roman Numerals.
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7. If the word MOM becomes
WOW when you turn it
upside down, what do
you get when you spell it
backwards?
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8. Answer
ti
When you spell the
word “it” backwards it
becomes “ti”
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9. How many numbers are
there on a dice?
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10. Answer
none
There are only dots on a dice.
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11. A cat has three kittens:
Daisy, Kittie and Gracie.
What is the mother's
name.
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12. Answer
What
It was a statement not a question.
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13. What is in the center of
Paris that can't be found
in Washington or London?
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14. Answer
R
The center of paRis is R.
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15. What happened on the
31st of June 1945?
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16. Answer
Nothing
There are only 30 days in June.
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17. If you throw a white hat
with a blue ribbon into the
Red Sea what does it
become?
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18. Answer
wet!
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19. How do you spell "hard
water" using only 3
letters?
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20. Answer
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21. S E Q U E N C _
What letter is needed to
complete the word?
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22. Answer
F
Place an F on the _ to form an E.
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23. The chicken or the egg?
Which came first?
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24. Answer
chicken
It came first in the question.
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25. What can you catch but
cannot throw?
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26. Answer
A cold.
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27. Which is correct:
Six and six IS eleven or
six and six ARE eleven?
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28. Answer
Neither – Six and Six is twelve.
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29. What does this word mean?
CITY
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30. Answer
capital city
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31. What is one word in
English that is always
pronounced incorrectly?
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32. Answer
incorrectly
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33. A carrot tree grows 1.5
inches every day. How
many days will it take to
grow 150 inches?
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34. Answer
Carrots don’t grow on trees!
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35. What one word contains
the most letters?
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36. Answer
ALPHABET
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37. There 10 horses, but only
9 stables.
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• You can’t make another stable
• You can’t put 2 horses in one stable
These are the stables:
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38. How can you solve this
problem?
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39. Answer
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