Brainteasers

Below you will find a collection of some of our favourite brainteasers. Some of them are easy, some are hard. All of them will make you think.

We'll add new ones as we come across them. If you would like to suggest a brainteaser that you think is awesome give us a holla at brainteasers@creativitygames.net.

Get to 24

The idea with this brainteaser is that you have to get to the number 24. For each set of numbers below you may manipulate them using the following operations ( + - x / ).

3, 3, 3, 3

4. 4. 4. 4

5, 5, 5, 5

6, 6, 6, 6

What is Money

SEND + MORE = MONEY

What is Money?

Twenty

SEVEN + SEVEN + SIX = TWENTY

What is TWENTY?

What Comes Next?

Below is a pattern of numbers. Can you work out the next number in the sequence?

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221, 1113213211, 31131211131221, ???

Reverse Alphabetical Order

This brainteaser is not really that hard but it does get you to think differently.

As quickly as you can, state the days of the week in reverse alphabetical order.

Brainteasers are an awesome way to encourage creative thinking. They are fun and you have to consider the problem from different, uncommon angles in order to find the solution.

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