1. Mind Benders

2. Graham Norton
28mins

3. I stare at you, you stare at me. I have three eyes, yet can't see.
Every time I blink, I give you commands.
You do as you are told, with your feet and hands.
What am I?

4. Traffic Lights

5. A man was driving a black car. His lights were off
A man was driving a black car. His lights were off. The moon shown no light. A cat was in the middle of the road. How did he know to stop?

6. It was during the day

7. Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast
Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. The riddle is for you to explain how

8. The three people were: Grandfather Father Son

9. A woman has 7 daughters and they each have a brother, how many children does she have?

10. 8

11. If I am a man and Aidan’s son is my son's father, what relationship am I to Aidan?

12. You would be Aidan’s son

13. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water
A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says ‘Thank you’ and walks out. Why?

14. The man had hiccups.

15. Mrs. Sweeney is lying on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in her death, yet there is no trace of blood. Mrs. Sweeney's body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could she have been murdered with the pair of scissors?

16. She slept on a waterbed

17. Something extraordinarily unusual happened on the 6th of May, 1978 at 12:34 p.m. What was it?

18. At that moment the time and day could be written as 12:34, 5/6/78

19. A worm is at the bottom of a forty meter hole
A worm is at the bottom of a forty meter hole. It can crawl upwards at a rate of four meters in a day, but at night, it slips back three meters. At this rate, how long will it take the worm to crawl out of the hole?

20. 37 days

21. An old beggar collects cigarette ends from ashtrays and sidewalks and uses the tobacco to roll her own cigarettes. She has this practice down to a fine art, knowing it will take seven cigarette ends to make one cigarette. Since she has collected 49 ends, how many cigarettes can she make from these and why?

22. 8

23. All except two of my pets are dogs
All except two of my pets are dogs. All except two of my pets are rabbits. All except two of my pets are fish. How many pets must I have?

24. 1 of each

25. In a small group of people it was found that all of the following relationships could be claimed: Father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, cousin, nephew, niece, uncle and aunt. What is the smallest group of people that can manage this, and how must they be related?

26. 4

27. Picture a ship at anchor
Picture a ship at anchor. Over the side hangs a rope ladder with half a meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming the nine rungs were above water when the tide began to rise?

28. All 9. If the tide rises, so too will the ship.

29. Gloria Goodbody opened her own clothing store called "The Wrap"
Gloria Goodbody opened her own clothing store called "The Wrap". She wasn't sure about pricing certain items so she devised her own method. At "The Wrap" a vest costs €20, socks cost €25, a tie costs €15 and a blouse costs €30. Using Gloria's pricing scheme, how much would a pair of underwear cost?

30. €45 €5 for every letter

31. There is a large wooden barn which is completely empty except for a dead man hanging from the middle of the central rafter. The rope around his neck is ten feet long and his feet are three feet off the ground. The nearest wall is 20 feet away from the man. It is not possible to climb up the walls or along the rafters. The man hanged himself. How did he do it?

32. He climbed on a block of ice which has since melted.

33. A man is lying dead in a field
A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him there is an unopened package. There is no other creature in the field. How did he die? HINT: as he approached the centre of the field he knew he was going to die.

34. The man had jumped from a plane but his parachute had failed to open
The man had jumped from a plane but his parachute had failed to open. It is the unopened package.

35. Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the lawn
Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?

36. They were used by children who made a snowman. The snow has now melted.

37. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

38. They were two of a set of triplets

39. A man pushed his car. He stopped when he reached a hotel at which point he knew he was bankrupt. Why?

40. He was playing monopoly

41. In the "Strange" family, each daughter has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many sons and daughters are in the family?

42. 4 daughters & 3 sons

43. There is a cage at the Electron City Zoo that contains both peacocks and wild pigs. If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet, how many of each are in the cage?

44. 7 pigs and 8 peacocks

45. This is a most unusual paragraph
This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck!

46. There is no letter ‘E’ in the paragraph

47. There are two books standing side by side on a shelf, each consisting of exactly 100 pages. The book on the left is upside-down. If you add the page number at the extreme left-hand side of the left-hand book to the page number at the extreme right-hand side of the right-hand book, what is the total?

48. 2

49. Four friends need to cross a bridge
Four friends need to cross a bridge. They start on the same side of the bridge. A maximum of two people can cross at any time. It is night and they have just one lamp. People that cross the bridge must carry the lamp to see the way. A pair must walk together at the rate of the slower person: Rachel: - takes 1 minute to cross Ben: - takes 2 minutes to cross George: - takes 7 minutes to cross Yvonne: - takes 10 minutes to cross The second fastest solution gets the friends across in 21 minutes. The fastest takes 17 minutes. Can you work out how it is done?