# Brain teasers **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [September 19, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782 "2004-09-19T23:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![936](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/cc9497/32.png) [@936](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/936)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/1 "2004-09-19T23:30:48Z")
**[font=Arial][color=#000099]A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50[/color][/font]** **[font=Arial,Helvetica][color=#000099]and her husband was so devastated that he cried for years. Ten[/color][/font]** **[font=Arial,Helvetica][color=#000099]years after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived to be 80,[/color][/font]** **[font=Arial,Helvetica][color=#000099]how many years was he a widower?[/color][/font]** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/2 "2004-09-19T23:33:40Z")
25 years? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/3 "2004-09-19T23:35:38Z")
I say 25 as well… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/4 "2004-09-19T23:37:19Z")
25 years. Here’s one for you (originally, I didn’t get this, because the simple logic almost completely escaped me) An amazon explorer was paddling up the amazon river, when he spotted an ostrich egg floating downstream. Where did it come from? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/5 "2004-09-19T23:38:16Z")
an ostrich? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/6 "2004-09-19T23:38:30Z")
umm… i’m not sure if a widower is the male equivalent of a widow… maybe it’s a trick question, i.e he wasn’t a widower at all.? EDIT: scrap that, it is. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/7 "2004-09-19T23:38:49Z")
Yep. But I originally said upstream :trout: You’re turn. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/8 "2004-09-19T23:39:28Z")
widower works 😉 [http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861713155](http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861713155) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/9 "2004-09-19T23:40:19Z")
Upstream? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/10 "2004-09-19T23:41:51Z")
Yes upstream, it was floating downstream, there for it must have come from upstream! edit: yeldarb, where’d your post go? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/11 "2004-09-19T23:45:03Z")
People already answered lol – I deleted it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/12 "2004-09-19T23:45:38Z")
But now I look like a skitzo! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/13 "2004-09-19T23:46:28Z")
ok it was 25 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/14 "2004-09-19T23:47:38Z")
Burning rope There are two lengths of rope. Each one can burn in exactly one hour. They are not necessarily of the same length or width as each other. They also are not of uniform width (may be wider in middle than on the end), thus burning half of the rope is not necessarily 1/2 hour. By burning the ropes, how do you measure exactly 45 minutes worth of time? [spoiler=Rope Puzzle]If you light both ends of one rope, it will burn in exactly a 1/2 hour. Thus, burn one rope from both ends and the other rope from only one end. Once the one rope (which is burning from both ends) finally burns out (and you know a 1/2 hour has elapsed), you also know that the other rope (which is buring from only one end) has exactly 1/2 hour left to burn. Since you only want 45 minutes, light the second end of the rope. This remaining piece will burn in 15 minutes. Thus, totaling 45 minutes.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/15 "2004-09-19T23:48:59Z")
Two mothers and two daughters were fishing. They managed to catch one big fish, one small fish, and one fat fish. Since only three fish were caught, how is it possible that they each took home a fish? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/16 "2004-09-19T23:50:37Z")
ooh i think i worked it out… what if you light both ends of one rope, and just one end of the other. Then, when the first rope has finished (half an hour) you light the other end of the other rope (which will be about half burnt) and thus speed up it’s burning… that would equal 45mins right? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/17 "2004-09-19T23:50:42Z")
two of them took one home together 😜 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/18 "2004-09-19T23:51:57Z")
they drowned one of the people before they left, so there were only 3 going home?!?! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/19 "2004-09-19T23:54:37Z")
no you guyz give up or wut .well i have to go so ill give you the answer The fishing party consisted of three people. A grandmother, a mother, and a daughter. The mother is both a mother and a daughter. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782/20 "2004-09-19T23:54:42Z")
It was a grandma, her daughter and the grandchild. Thus, two mothers and two daughters, but only three persons? :beam: [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/brain-teasers/64782.md?page=2)