Online Scavenger Hunt Brain Teaser Puzzles & Challenges€¦ · Brain Teaser Puzzles & Challenges Instructions This document features the description of a series of brain teasers
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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.
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.
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.