50 Trick Questions To Challenge Your Mind

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Have you ever heard about trick questions? Trick questions are questions that are designed to be deceptive or misleading. They are usually made to confuse and challenge others.

Some use trick questions to test someone's ability to think critically and avoid falling for the trick. However, trick questions can also be used to have fun with your friends. Try asking these questions to your friends. It's very fun to look at their confused faces and hearing their answer.

In this article, we have selected some great and fun trick questions from various sources, Thursday (15/1/2026), just for you. These questions will definitely make you and your friends confused. But don't worry. We've also included answers to these questions.

These funny trick questions will make you laugh out loud because of its silliness.

1. How many letters are in the alphabet? Eleven. T-h-e -a-l-p-h-a-b-e-t

2. Spell enemy in three letters. Foe

3. What happened when the wheel was invented? It caused a revolution. 

4. Where is an ocean with no water? On a map. 

5. How can you lift an elephant with one hand? You can’t. Elephants don’t have hands. 

6. What two words, when combined, hold the most letters? Post office

7. Which button cannot be unbuttoned? The belly–button

8. What do you say to water that gets evaporated? You will be mist

9. How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 feet long, and 4 feet wide? None, there’s no dirt in a hole. 

10. What is the biggest problem with snow boots? They melt. 

12. A man went outside in the pouring rain without an umbrella. Not a single hair on his head got wet. How is this possible? He’s bald. 

13. If it took eight men ten hours to dig a swimming pool, how long will it take four men to dig it? It will take no time at all. The pool has already been dug.

14. Whenever the ocean meets the beach, what does it say? Nothing. It just waves.

15. What do you call something that has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck.

16. There are two things you can never eat at breakfast. What are they? Lunch and dinner.

17. What do you really find at the end of a rainbow? The letter ‘W’

18. If a bird, a squirrel, and a monkey are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who do you think will get the banana first? None of them. They can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!

19. Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby? The baby, because he’s a little Bigger.

20. What happens if you throw a white hat into the Black Sea? The hat gets wet.

21. What did one campfire say to the other? Shall we go out tonight? 

22. How can you make the number one vanish? Add a ‘G’ and suddenly, it’s gone.

23. Imagine you are in a sinking boat in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by dozens of sharks ready for blood with no one to help you. How would you survive? Stop imagining it.

24. A man runs out of his home, yelling, “Help a thief!”. Instead of stopping the thief, his neighbor hands her car keys to the thief. Why? The man didn’t use a comma. 

25. If a rooster lays an egg on top of the barn roof, which way will it roll? Roosters don’t lay eggs. 

Want to test your brain ability? Try to answer these mind-confusing trick questions!

1. What happens when you throw a blue rock into the Red Sea? It sinks to the bottom.

2. What’s something that always wants an answer but doesn’t have a question? A phone.

3. Ted is the father of Sam, but Sam is not the son of Ted. How is that possible? Sam is not a boy.

4. If there are eight oranges in a bag and you take away two, how many do you have? Two.

5. If you build a fort, drive a Ford, and fill out a form, then what do you eat soup with? A spoon.

6. What must be broken into pieces, in order to function properly? An eggshell.

7. What is an item people see as essential, but buy hoping they will never use it once? A fire extinguisher.

8. What has four legs, one head, and many hungry mouths? A dining table.

9. What is the cheapest way to buy thirteen diamonds? Buy a deck of cards.

10. What is ‘gravel’ made up of? The letters G-R-A-V-E-L.

11. What can you step on with your right foot, but never your left? Your left foot.

12. During which month do people in Brazil eat the least? February, as it is shorter than all the other months.

13. When can the number five evenly divide seven in two? When it’s the Roman numeral ‘V’.

14. What runs but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? A river.

15. What is a ring without a finger? A telephone .

16. What has keys but can’t open locks? A keyboard.

17. What has branches, but no bark, leaves, or fruit? A bank.

18. What is black when bought, red when used, and gray when discarded? Charcoal.

19. What increases but does not decrease? Age.

20. A girl fell off a 50-foot ladder but didn’t get hurt. How come? She fell off the bottom rung.

21. A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode out on Friday. How is that possible? Friday was the name of his horse.

22. You’re riding an electric train at 120mph, moving north with the wind blowing east at 15 mph. Which way does the smoke blow? Electric trains don’t smoke.

23. What building has more stories than any other building in the entire world? The library.

24. What do you call a person who doesn’t have all his fingers in one hand? Normal! Most people only have half their fingers on one hand.

25. You see a truck driver going down a one-way street the wrong way. He passes at least ten cops but doesn’t get stopped. How come? Because he was walking on the sidewalk.