1. Harold is playing Monopoly.
   This is just not possible.
2. Harold ran is car into the hotel.

Harold is playing Monopoly. He's becomes immediately bankrupt because he does not have enough money to pay the rent.

1. carrot
   incorrectly
2. ground

Incorrectly is the only word that is spelled incorrectly. Unless you spell incorrectly incorrectly. Confused?

1. It isn't possible.
   Charlie is lying about his birthday.
2. Charlie lives in the southern hemisphere.

Charlie lives in the southern hemisphere. When it is winter in the northern hemisphere, it is summer in the southern hemisphere, so, for Charlie, July is winter, not summer.

1. Fido flew.
   Fido jumped.
2. The river is frozen.

This brainteaser works because the river is frozen. We tend to think of rivers as running water, but in this case, Fido can only accomplish this feat if the river is solid.

1. footsteps
   clothes
2. smiles

You make more footsteps as you take more steps. Confused?

1. meat
   230 pounds
2. 165 pounds

Jerry weighs meat. That's his job.

1. nothing
   they are all pickles
2. They are pronounced differently if you capitalize the first letter.

These words are pronounced differently if you capitalize the first letter. Polish becomes a nationality instead of a nail decoration, and job becomes a name instead of an occupation.

1. You need a camera to take a picture.
   It's illegal.
2. You can take a picture of anyone.

Like many brain teasers, this one is all about the wording. Only a camera can take photos. In other words, you can't use a wooden leg to take a photo.

1. Mt. Fuji
   Mt. St. Helens
2. Mt. Everest

Before Mt. Everest was discovered, Mt. Everest was the tallest mountain in the world. Even though it had not yet been discovered, it was still the tallest mountain in the world.

1. It's not possible.
   Who knows?
2. Jimmy lives BC (BCE).

Jimmy lives in BC time, or BCE, Before Common Era. In BC, time counted down toward 0.

1. 1st
   2nd
2. 3rd

It would be an honest mistake to say first place. But if Janie passes the person in 2nd place, she then takes that person's place. So, Janie is in second place.

1. 5 miles
   3 kilometers
2. halfway

A bear can only run halfway into the woods. After the halfway point, the bear would technically be running out of the woods.

1. none
   18 feet
2. 18 square feet

If you dig a hole that measures five feet by six feet, there is no dirt in the hole. Holes are, by definition, empty.

1. short
   long
2. middle

The word "long" becomes "longer" when you add to letters to it. The two letters to add are "er." Tricky, right?!

1. 4
   8
2. all of them

All 12 months in a year have at least 28 days. Did this one fool you?

1. the lamp
   the candle
2. the match

Betty would have to light the match first. Even if she lit any of the items listed, Betty would have to light the match first.

1. nothing
   they are spelled incorrectly
2. If you take the first letter of each word and place it at the end of the word, it spells the same word.

These words are unusual in that, if you take the first letter of each word and place it at the end of the word, it spells the same word. We'll wait while you go back and look at them again.

1. U.S.
   Canada
2. nowhere

They don't bury the survivors anywhere. Survivors are alive. This one is an oldie but a goodie!

1. sugar
   cement
2. neither

Neither is heavier. A pound is a pound regardless of what item is being weighed.

1. brown
   red
2. whatever color your hair is

Since you are driving the bus, the bus driver's hair is the color of your hair. This teaser contains a ton of extraneous information to confuse you.

1. corn on the cob
   a hotdog
2. cereal

If you threw away the outside (the husk) and cooked the inside, then you ate the outside and threw away the inside (the cob), you ate corn on the cob. Did you get this one right?

1. The yolk of the egg is white
   The yolk of the egg are white
2. Neither is correct.

Neither sentence is correct. Egg yolks are not white. So, regardless of which sentence is grammatically correct, neither sentence is actually correct.

1. an hourglass
   a watch
2. an alarm clock

We don't often think of an hourglass as a timepiece, but it is. There are thousands, even millions, of moving parts (the grains of sand) in an hourglass.

1. the girl's aunt
   the girl's mother
2. the girl's brother

The doctor is the girl's mother. This teaser plays on to things: too much information and the fact that we tend to think of doctors as men.

1. nothing
   who knows
2. This number contains all numbers, zero through nine, in alphabetical order.

This number is unique in that it contains numbers zero through nine in alphabetical order. We'll wait while you go back and say it out loud.

1. May
   August
2. Karen

The third child's name is Karen. The answer is in the question. The question asks, "Karen's father...," so, in addition to June and July, Karen's father has a child named Karen.

1. This is just not possible.
   I don't know.
2. Kevin is walking

Kevin is walking, not driving. This teaser is tricky, because it includes information that is not pertinent to the question.

1. Baby
   a chair
2. a stamp

A stamp travels around the world, but it's always in a corner ... the corner of an envelope, that is. We thought we'd end on a high note... get it? Note?

1. This is just not possible.
   Barry is not eating chicken eggs.
2. Barry is not really eating eggs.

This is possible because Barry is not eating chicken eggs. This teaser is tricky because we tend to think of eggs as always coming from chickens.

1. 5
   10
2. 15

If Farmer Ben had 15 horses, and all but 10 die, Farmer Ben would have ten horses left. We tend to subtract ten from 15, but this teaser is worded tricky.

1. a last name
   a first name
2. a middle initial

A surname is a last name. This teaser is referring to last names, or surnames.

1. no
   yes
2. who knows

Yes, Sandy can. She would simply have to push the cork down into the bottle and shake out the penny. This method would leave the cork in the bottle and the bottle intact.

1. normal
   fingerless
2. disabled

The man would be described as normal. Since most people have ten fingers, only five of them would be on one hand, not all of them.

1. 1
   9
2. 18

Farmer Joe would have one large haystack. This one is tricky. We're not asking you to combine the fields, we're asking you to combine the haystacks.

1. 6
   8
2. 12

There are eight people in the family. There are two parents, four daughters and two brothers.