Spring IQ Test

Ready to shake up your brain after the long and cold winter?
This IQ Test is easy, fun and playful. No math skills above Kindergarten level are required. Answer quickly, without hesitation.

Puzzle #1: You participate in a race and you are advancing ahead of a racer who is second. What is your place in the race right now?

Answer #1: If you answered that you are on the first place - you are absolutely wrong. If you went ahead of the runner who was second, you now took his second place.


Puzzle #2: Two fireman entered a school and one of them claimed to be a father of the other's 2nd grader. Can this be true?

Answer #2: Hopefully, you have answered yes. No complex family relationships are necessary, the other fireman must have been the 2nd grader's mother.

Puzzle #3: A girl entering a library was surprised to see her friend walking toward her. The friend was accompanied by her mother, two grandparents, younger brother and a little puppy. The friend was also holding a doll. How many people in total just came to the library?

Answer #3: Don't even think of answering 5 or 6. They are all leaving the library. Only one girl just came in.

Puzzle #4: How many pairs of animals did Moses take on the Arc?

Answer #4: It was Noah, not Moses.

Puzzle #5: Mary's father has five daughters: 1-Arlene, 2-Darlene, 3-Marlene, 4-Sharlene. What is the name of his fifth daughter?

Answer #5: If you answered anything ending with "lene" - wrong again. Run this puzzle by your toddler kid. She will help you figure out that Mary's father should have at least one daughter named Mary.

Better luck next time. Enjoy sharing this.

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