In honor of National Train Your Brain Day on 13 October (US).

In honor of National Train Your Brain Day on 13 October (US), let us take a few minutes to enjoy ten brain teasers to keep the mind active.

In case it's helpful, below are the topics covered in this post:

• The Brain Teasers

• The Answers

• What's Next?

The Brain Teasers

1. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

2. What kind of running means walking?

3. An elevator is on the ground floor. There are four people in the elevator including me. When the lift reaches the first floor, one person gets out and three people get in. The lift goes up to the second floor, 2 people get out, 6 people get in. It then goes up to the next floor up, no-one gets out but 12 people get in. Halfway up to the next floor up the elevator cable snaps, it crashes to the floor. Everyone else dies in the elevator except me. How did I survive?

4. How can 8+8=4?

5. What can be seen once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?

6. A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

7. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

8. There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?

9. What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?

10. A man takes his car to a hotel. Upon reaching the hotel, he is immediately declared bankrupt. Why?

The Answers

1. A stamp.

2. Running out of gas.

3. I got off on the first floor.

4. In terms of time: 8 A.M. plus 8 more hours equals 4 P.M.

5. The letter "m."

6. The river was frozen.

7. Seven.

8. Heroine.

9. It contains each number, zero through nine, in alphabetical order.

10. The man is playing Monopoly. He lands on a property with a hotel and doesn’t have enough money to pay the rent.

What's Next?

Celebrate National Train Your Brain Day by completing mental challenges or learning new things. Appreciate your brain by keeping it active!

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