Easy Brain Teasers With Answers
Here are some fun, quick-thinking brain teasers with answers that include lots of spelling and vocabulary practice.
These twelve questions are presented and explained in four different sections. You can find more slightly more difficult versions of similar brain teasers here.
One at a Time
Here’s how you can change the word DOG to CAT by changing just one letter at time: DOG, DOT, COT, CAT
1. Change PIG to HEN in the same way. Be sure to spell real words each time. (Please note that there may be many different ways to solve these puzzlers.)
2. Now change BAT to FOX by changing one letter at a time. Be sure to spell real words.
3. Now change SHOE to BOOT.
4. For a more difficult challenge, change HEAT to COLD.
Rhyme Time
The words sun, shoe, flee rhyme with three words often used together: one, two, three.
5. Write a set of three related words that rhyme with chop, hip, bump.
6. Write a set of three related words that rhyme with label, wear, slouch.
7. Find a set of three related words that rhyme with many, pickle, slime. Be sure to spell each one correctly.
Tricky Transportation
If you change the w in want to a k and then rearrange the letters kant, you can spell tank, one form of transportation. Now change one letter in each of these words and rearrange the letters to spell more kinds of transportation.
8. tea
jet9. push
10. poems
Eating on the Run
Here are just two more brain teasers with answers. Spell a food using only letters in the name of each city. You do not need to use all the letters, and you may change the order of the letters.
11. CAROLEEN (North Carolina)
12. KIMBALL (Nebraska)
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