Brain Teasers Games
What do the following animals have in common?: River cats, flying squirrels, jumbo shrimp, trash pandas, woodpeckers, and yard goats?
#2. Each of the following words appears either in the middle of or at the end of the name of a country. For example, ACED is in Macedonia. What are the countries?
1. DIVE, 2. DONE, 3. GLAD, 4. HAIL, 5. HELL, 6. LAYS, 7. NAME, 8. OVEN, 9. RUNE, 10. SCAR, 11. SWAN, 12. TENS, 13. WAND.
#3. REMEMBER THESE THREE WORDS, AFTER YOU'VE LOOKED THROUGH THE WEBSITE FOR LET'S SAY 15 OR 20 MINUTES, SEE IF YOU CAN REMEMBER THEM IN ORDER. THESE ARE THE WORDS, AND THEY'RE NOT ready, set, go !! YOUR WORDS ARE: green, bandana, shark
#4. Shelf life Some pantry items you have to use within weeks—others last virtually forever. Can you rank the following five pantry items in order of shelf life, from shortest to longest? Brown rice, hot sauce, vanilla extract (real), pretzels/chips, tomato paste
ANSWERS:
#1 They're all the names of Minor League Baseball teams.
#2 1. Maldives, 2. Indonesia, 3. Bangladesh, 4. Thailand, 5. Seychelles, 6. Malaysia, 7. Suriname, 8. Slovenia, 9. Brunei, 10. Madagascar, 11. Botswana, 12. Lichtenstein, 13. Rwanda.
#3 Did you remember green, bandana, shark? Good, just a Medicare Wellness check to test your memory. If you can remember them in a few days, you still have a good part of your memory intact - seriously. This was an actual activity given by a physician to detect memory loss in a senior patient dealing with dementia (my Mother WMB rip 2012).
#4 1. Pretzels/chips (two months), 2. Brown rice (six months), 3. Tomato paste (12–18 months), 4. Hot sauce (five years), 5. Real vanilla extract (indefinitely).
Assuming you don’t open them, of course!
