Prove how clever you are…
Brain teasers are a great way of keeping your mind sharp although we understand just how frustrating they can be when you just can’t get a grasp on the correct answer.
With this in mind, we’ve compiled three fiendishly difficult brain teasers for you to try and wrap your head around.
Take a moment, compose yourself and crack on with the three teasers below…
Teaser One:
A pharmacist has one 5 ml container and one 3 ml container. How can he measure exactly 4 ml of medicine using only these two containers?
Teaser two:
A man has to get a chicken, a fox and a bag of corn across a river.
He has a row boat, but it can only carry him and one other thing.
If the chicken and the fox are left together, then the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn are left together, then the chicken will eat the corn.
How does the man do it?
Teaser three:
See if you can figure this one out, it’s extremely tough.
Fill each ‘blank’ in the sentence below with the same letters in the same order, to make a sentence that is both sensible and grammatically correct.
“The [blank] doctor was [blank] to operate because he had [blank].”
Scroll down past the gif to see the answers…
Answers:
Teaser One: First, the pharmacist fills the 5 ml container with the medicine and pours its contents into the 3 ml container, which he empties afterward.
Then he pours the remaining 2 ml of medicine from the 5 ml container into the 3 ml container. Next, he refills the 5 ml container with more medicine and carefully pours the medicine from it to fill the 3 ml container (where there is already 2 ml).
This will only require 1 ml from the 5 ml container. Thus he is left with 4 ml in the 5 ml container, as requested.
Teaser Two: The man and the chicken cross the river (the fox and the corn are safe together), he leaves the chicken on the other side and goes back across.
The man then takes the fox across the river, and since he can’t leave the fox and the chicken together, he brings the chicken back.
Since the chicken and the corn can’t be left together, he leaves the chicken and he takes the corn across and leaves it with the fox.
He then returns to pick up the chicken and makes one last journey across.
Teaser three: According to the creator Stan Belot, it’s ‘notable’, ‘not able’ and ‘no table’.
For example: “The notable doctor was not able to operate because he had no table.”
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