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Online Scavenger HuntBrain Teaser Puzzles & Challenges
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This document features the description of a series of brain teasers or lateral-thinking exercises which you can embed into your online scavenger hunt.
Copy & paste the text blocks directly into one or more of a series of padlets. To inspire you, we also display a suggested image (optional) which captures the essence of the puzzle to add a little more interest to your padlet.
Note, all of the puzzles and challenges featured here can be used in an event which adopts a time-limited format.
However, in the case of password-protected padlets (which may form part of an online scavenger hunt that adopts a linear format,) some answers may not lend themselves easily to the use of a password.
As always, reach out to playmeo if you need help.
Have FUNN.
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A bat and a ball cost $11.00 in total.
The bat costs $10.00 more than the ball.
How much does the ball cost?
Source: Association for Psychological Science
Answer = 50 cents
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to enter their answer in cents (50) as a numeral.
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What can you find once in a year, twice in a week but never in a day?
Source: Association for Psychological Science
Answer = the letter E
Note, hinting that the answer is one character may make this puzzle unsuitable for use in a password-protected padlet (linear format) because this direction provides a strong clue to the solution.
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How many squares are there in the diagram below?
Answer = 30
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to enter their answer as a numeral (to avoid confusion.)
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How many triangles are there in the diagram below?
Answer = 38
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to enter their answer as a numeral (to avoid confusion.)
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What is the next number in this sequence?
8 18 11 15 5 4 __Hint, it is not greater than 39.
Source: The Happy Linguist
Answer = 14
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to spell their answer as a numeral (to avoid confusion.)
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The two lines of letters below are distinctly different.
Identify one of the possible next letters in the sequence of each line:
A X I M E __
B Q D J U __
Source: Call Centre Helper
Top Line Answer = E, F, I, L, M, N, V, W, X or Y
Bottom Line Answer = B, D, O, P, Q or S
Hint: the letters in the top line are made exclusively of straight lines, whereas theletters in the bottom line are made of at least one curved line.
Note, given that there are multiple answers to this puzzle, it is not suitable to be used in a password-protected padlet (linear format.)
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What is the next letter in this series?
O T T F F S _
Source: Event finda
Answer = S (for seven)
Hint: each letter represents the initial of the first 7 numbers.
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to enter their answer in one character (s or S.)
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What occurs once in June, once in July and twice in August?
Source: Metropolitan School District of Pike Township
Answer = the letter U
Note, hinting that the answer is one character may make this puzzle unsuitable for use in a password-protected padlet (linear format) because this direction provides a strong clue to the solution.
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In five years time I will be three times as old as I was three years ago.
How old am I now?
Source: Creative Child Therapy Workshops
Answer = 7
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to express their answer as a numeral (to avoid confusion.)
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How many mistakes are there in the sentence below?
This sentance containes two misstakes.
Source: Inc Magazine
Answer = 4
Hint: there are three spelling mistakes plus the incorrect assertion that there are only two mistakes in the sentence.
Note, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to express their answer as a numeral (to avoid confusion.)
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A car is driven from A to B at an average speed of 60 kph and is then driven back from B to A along the same route at an average speed of 40 kph.
What is the average speed of the car for the whole journey?
Source: Autocar
Answer = 48 kph
Note, while this puzzle is expressed in metric, the answer is the same for imperial measurements (mph.)
Also, in the case of password-protected padlets, instruct your teams to express their answer as a numeral (without the kph.)
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