You’re with your best mate Bella in a battle for the best chocolate bars. On this unlikely occasion, your favourite is the Bounty bar surrounded by a sea of Mars bars. To be precise, there are 100 Mars and just one Bounty. You and Bella will take it in turns to take 1 to 5…

Jezza and Clive live their lives by the old Scottish saying, “Never have whisky without water, nor water without whisky!” Clive settles down for his evening whisky, which he pours out in front of him. Jezza has the same-sized glass of water. Clive takes a spoonful of his whisky and pours it into Jezza’s water,…

Here’s another collection of three short riddles. We reckon at least one out of three to catch you out! 1: Where do you find keys that won’t work in a lock? 2: What’s as big as Big Ben but weighs nothing? 3: Which letter of the alphabet has the most water? See below for the…

Here’s a collection of three short riddles. Some might be straightforward enough, but we expect at least one out of three to catch you out! 1: Guess the next three letters in the series – GTNTL 2: The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number, but why?? 3: What kind of room has no doors or…

Here’s a pretty unique brainteaser that you may not have encountered before. You’re investigating a known criminal. Here’s what you know: This woman is 26-years-old. She’s clever, a graduate. You know she was very much involved in social and environmental movements. That’s pretty much it. How do you profile this woman? You have to pick…

Originally formulated by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas, this maths-infused riddle is a tough one, but you can make it much easier by writing parts of it down, as you’ll soon find out. At 12:00 noon, every day, an ocean liner leaves the French port of Nantes, heading to New York. At that exact moment,…