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Start Your Monday with These 3 Brainteasers
 Start Your Monday with These 3 Brainteasers 960 678 Emilie
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Last week we brought you 3 brainteasers to fight the Monday blues and get your brain moving. No matter how much coffee we have, sometimes it seems impossible to fully wake up at the beginning of a work week. But with these fun brainteasers, we know you’ll be able to tackle your Monday with ease!

Triangles. Here at United EVENTures, we love our geometric puzzles! This triangle puzzle from Brain Athlete challenges you to calculate the total number of triangles located in the image below. How many can you find?

Blood Donors. Now that we’ve tested your geometric analysis, let’s try a logic puzzle! This riddle, from Brain Bashers asks you to determine the position, age, height, blood type and weight of each blood donor. Brain Bashers has all kinds of riddles and puzzles that you can check out whenever you want!

Five patients, all potential blood donors, are waiting in the doctor’s surgery and are sitting on the bench from left to right. Can you determine the position of each patient along with their blood group, age, height and weight? Their ages are 5, 9, 30, 46 and 60. Their heights are 40, 48, 60, 65 and 74. Their weights are 40, 75, 96, 125 and 165.

  • The person on the far right is 37 years older than Jason, and is 60 inches tall.
  • Jason weighs 56 pounds more than his height.
  • Alan weighs 75 pounds and is 74 inches tall.
  • John is type AB and weighs 56 pounds less than Jason.
  • The person in the centre is 9 years old, is blood type AO and weighs 96 pounds.
  • Adam, who is the first, is 65 inches tall, and weighs 100 pounds more than his height.
  • The person who is blood type O, is 25 years older than the person to the left of them.
  • Kevin is 60 years old.
  • The person who is blood type A, is 55 years younger than Kevin and is not next to the person who is type AO.
  • The person who is next to the 9 year old but not next to the person who is 65 inches tall, is blood type B, and weighs 125 pounds.

Number Trouble. We got this number riddle from SeriousShops.com. To find even more of their brainteasers, click here!

Find a number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its value when its digits are reversed.

Answers

Triangles. 41 triangles. For a detailed explanation, check out the description at Jeremy Jones.

Blood Donors.

# Name  Type  Age  Height  Weight
1 Adam     A       5          65        165
2 Alan       O      30        74         75
3 Jason   AO      9         40         96
4 Kevin    B       60        48        125
5 John    AB      46        60        40

Number Trouble. 45, because 1/5 of 45 is 9, and 9 plus 45 is 54 (the reverse of 45).

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Start Your Morning with These 3 Brainteasers
 Start Your Morning with These 3 Brainteasers 992 744 Emilie
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We know that it can be hard to get your brain moving on a Monday morning. Here at United EVENTures, we’re big fans of brainteasers. They keep you alert and sharp, while also allowing you to think in new, creative ways. Take a look at these brainteasers to jumpstart your brain this morning!

Apples, Bananas and Coconuts. We got this brainteaser from ABC News, and thought it was interesting because although it was meant to be a brainteaser for children (with very basic math!) it has managed to confuse many people! See if you can get it right.

PHOTO: A seemingly simple childrens brainteaser is sweeping the internet as people struggle to find the correct answer.

The Parking Space. We got this question from Wimp.com, and chose it because incoming first graders in China were able to answer this question in only 20 seconds (on average)! But the same question is difficult for adults to solve.

The Swimming Pool. This brainteaser comes from East Coast Radio. They designed the brainteaser so that the majority of people will not answer correctly. See if you can get it!

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Answers:

Apples, Bananas and Coconuts: The answer is 14, not 16! The trick is to count the number of bananas and coconuts in each grouping. Each banana represents “1,” each coconut represents “1,” and each apple represents “10.”

The Parking Space: 87. The lot numbers are simply upside down, and you will see that this space falls between space 86 and 88.

The Swimming Pool: 29 days. The answer is actually right in the question! It says that “every day the amount of water doubles.” The last day the pool is filled up 100%, so that means the day before must be when it is filled 50%.