Braingle
Brain teasers, riddles, puzzles and games.
- Website
- braingle.com · all feeds from this site
- Feed URL
https://feeds.braingle.com/braingle/all
Read it in your FeedListing reader
Or add to: Feedly Inoreader Raw feed
Latest posts
-
Trick Brain Teaser : 2000 Push-ups
Braingle's Daily Brain Teaser for Nov 03, 2026 Jon and Bob were betting on a baseball game and Bob lost. To get back at him he bets Jon. Bob says, "I bet you I can do two to three thousand push-ups in 10 minutes." Jon says, "Fine, let's see it. You couldn't possibly win that…
-
Trivia Quiz: "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Who Bends What
Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Nov 03, 2026 A Television Quiz : Do you know what each "Avatar: The Last Airbender" character bends? 1. By the end of the series, Aang is a/an ... 2. Katara is a/an ... 3. Sokka is a Waterbender. 4. Toph is a/an ... 5. Momo is a/an ... 6. Zuko is…
-
Word of the Day : Slake
slake verb :: To allay; to quench; to extinguish; to satisfy one's thirst. verb :: To go out; to become extinct; to slacken; to become relaxed. "My first act on coming to this water was, of course, to slake my thirst." --Wells, H.G. More Vocabulary Articles...
-
Goal Visualization
There is a strong connection between mental pictures and emotions. If you visualize something happy, you will feel happier and if you visualize something sad, you will start to feel sad. Here is one way to take advantage of this phenomenon. Pick a goal that you want to achieve.…
-
Teaching Mnemonics
Most teachers do not want their students to simply memorize facts. Teachers tend to put more emphasis on advanced skills such as reasoning, problem solving and synthesis. Memorization is seen as a lesser skill, and as a result most classrooms do not teach mnemonics . What is…
-
Language Brain Teaser : Make Some New Words #2
Braingle's Daily Brain Teaser for Nov 02, 2026 In this teaser, your job is to form eight (8) complete words from list A, B, & C. In each list, there are parts of words. Choose one word part from each list (A, B, C) to form the new word. Example: CORN + ERST + ONE = CORNERSTONE…
-
Trivia Quiz: Julius Caesar
Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Nov 02, 2026 A People Quiz : How much do you know about one of the most famous Romans of all time? Test yourself on the life of Julius Caesar, his accomplishments and his downfall. 1. What was Julius Caesar's full name? 2. What would Caesar do…
-
Word of the Day : Pantechnicon
Pan-tech-ni-con noun :: A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale. Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar care." --Wells, H.G. More Vocabulary Articles...
-
Color Hunting
Look around the room and try to find as many green things as you can. Plants, people's eyes and money are examples of things that might be green. This exercise helps you become more aware of your surroundings and helps improve your attention to details. If green is too easy for…
-
Walk Into a Room
If you have ever walked into a room and forgotten why you walked in there, you have experienced one of most common types of absentmindedness . If this happens to you, look around the room and see if something jogs your memory. Mentally retrace your steps and think about what you…
-
Riddle : Diverse Origins
Braingle's Daily Brain Teaser for Nov 01, 2026 Change my beginning every time To realize another rhyme Start with a repair to apply Step before one's able to fly Do this and my freedom you take Find this and a couple you make Use me to make a gate secure As a baked group we may…
-
Trivia Quiz: Before They Were Movies- Song Edition II
Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Nov 01, 2026 A Movies Quiz : Can you name these movies whose titles were based on songs? 1. This 1991 movie, named after a 1965 Temptations hit, starred Anna Chlumskey and Macaulay Culkin: 2. This seasonal movie tells the story of a girl who uses…
-
Word of the Day : Pellucid
pel-lu-cid adjective :: Transparent; clear; translucent; not opaque. "In the atmosphere of the Easterly weather, as pellucid as a piece of crystal and refracting like a prism, we could see the appalling numbers of our helpless company, even to those who in more normal conditions…
-
Opposite Point of View III
People tend to quickly classify a situation, which causes us to think and respond to it in predictable ways. A creative thinker will think about situations from different angles. Try this exercise to think of these situations from a different point of view. 1. Your favorite pair…
-
Short-Term Memory
The average person's short-term memory can only hold 7 pieces of information for about 30 seconds. If you want to get something into your long-term memory , you're going to need to remember it for at least 30 seconds. This is probably why it's easy to forget someone's name…