1. What is so fragile that even saying its name can break it?

1. Silence
2. Two fathers and two sons all decide to go fishing one day. They're all going to
participate, but upon arrival at a nearby pond, only three lines go out into the water.
How is that possible?

2. They represent three generations: a grandfather who is a father, his son who is also a father,
and his son.
3. You are locked in a freezing cabin with no way out. There is a candle, a wood
stove, and a lantern. You only have one match, what do you light first?

3. The match.
4. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The
first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the
third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

4. The third--the lions are dead from starvation

5. In a small cabin in the woods, two men lie dead. The cabin itself is not burned,
but the forest all around is burned to cinders. How did the men die?

5. It's an airplane cabin.

6. A poor man walks into a bar and starts talking with a really rich man. The poor
man says, "You know, I know every song in the world. I bet all your fortune and
possessions that I can find a song with any name you want." The rich man,
laughing, accepts and says that he bets him to find a song with his daughter's
complete name in it. Her name is Julie-Monique-Alexandrina. A few minutes later,
the poor man exits the bar with the rich man's wallet, car(s) key(s), clothes, etc. He
won his bet.
How?

6. The song was "Happy Birthday."

7. A man sitting at a table is dead with 53 bicycles lying all around him. How did he
die?

7. He was murdered for cheating at a card game.

8. There is a small diamond inside of a wine bottle. The wine bottle is all glass and
has a cork sealing the top. You cannot break or damage the glass in any way, and
you cannot pull the cork out of the bottle.
How do you get the diamond?

8. Push the cork into the bottle.

9. Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank very
quickly and drank five iced teas in the time it took the other to drink one. The girl
who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned.
Why did the girl that drank more iced tea survive?

9. The poison was in the middle of ice cubes.

10. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks them, "Would you all like a
drink?" The first logician says, "I don't know." The second logician also responds, "I
don't know." The third logician says, "Yes!"
How does the third logician know this?

10. The key word is "all." The first and second person both indicate that they don't know, as in
they cannot say if the next person will have a drink, but if they didn't want a drink, they would
know that "all" of them don't want a drink.
11. What is a thing that nothing is, yet it has a name?
It is better than heaven, yet worse than hell. The dead eat this always, but when the
living eat this, they die slowly.

11. Nothing.
12. If you have three, you have three. If you have two, you have two. But if you
have one, you have none.
What is it?

12. Choices.

13. Kerry and Terry are twins (in every sense of the word, i.e. they shared the
same womb).
One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her OLDER twin
brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How can that happen?
13. The babies were born on a boat. After Kerry was born the boat crossed the international date
line. Kerry and Terry were born on different days: Kerry on March 1st and Terry on February
28th. On a leap year their birthdays are two days apart.

14. You are standing at a pool and have a 3-gallon jug and a 5-gallon jug... put
EXACTLY 4 gallons of water into one of the jugs.
You have no other means of measuring besides the two jugs. You must be exact.

14. Fill the 3-gallon jug. Pour into 5-gallon jug. Refill 3-gallon jug and pour into 5-gallon jug. 5gallon jug is now full and 3-gallon jug has 1 gallon. Empty 5-gallon jug. Empty the single gallon
from the 3-gallon jug into the 5-gallon jug and then fill 3-gallon jug and pour that into 5-gallon
jug as well.
15. A dad and his two sons are stranded on an island. Eventually they discover a
row boat that they can use to get to the mainland.
However...
The boat has a weight limit of 200 lbs.
The dad alone weights 200 lbs, his sons weigh 100 lbs each.
How do all 3 get to the mainland?

15. The two sons travel to mainland first. One son stays and the other son goes back, gets out of
the boat, and the father travels to the mainland. Then the first son goes back and gets the other
son.