Brain Exercises – March 14, 2023

Some Easy-Peasy Riddles

  1. What flower is very fierce?
  2. What has two thumbs and no fingers?
  3. If you shoot at two birds on a fence and hit one, how many birds will be left?
  4. What is never part of anything?
  5. Which chef in the kitchen wears the largest hat?
  6. Which letters are never tired?
  7. What never uses its teeth to eat?
  8. What’s the worst weather for rats and mice?
  9. What does a duck have that no other birds have? 
  10. What’s the difference between a watch maker and a prison warden?

Endings and Beginnings

The first half of a two-word phrase or compound word is provided, and the second half of another. For example, if you are given “credit” and “card”, the one word that completes both clues is “card,” i.e., “Credit card” and “card trick.”  Try to find a word that will make a phrase or compound word out of each beginning and ending.

  1. Throw……..fight
  2. Times……..dance
  3. Watch…….paddle
  4. Criminal……..player
  5. Air………gum
  6. Forbidden………cocktail
  7. Puppy………sick
  8. Crawl……..shuttle
  9. River…….robber
  10. Net……..force

Answers

Some Easy-Peasy Riddles

  1. A tiger lily
  2. A pair of mittens
  3. None.  The second one will fly away 
  4. The whole
  5. The one with the largest head
  6. N.R.G
  7. A comb
  8. When it’s raining cats and dogs
  9. Ducklings
  10. One sells watches and the other watches cells

Endings and Beginnings

  1. Pillow
  2. Square
  3. Dog
  4. Record
  5. Bubble
  6. Fruit
  7. Love
  8. Space
  9. Bank
  10. Work