Get your summer off to an entertaining start with our fiendish family brainteasers. Designed to get everyone thinking, these riddles are a great way to give the mind a workout and have some fun at the same time.
1. A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
2. A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
3. What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?
4. A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
5. How do you make the number 66 one-and-a-half times bigger, without doing any maths?
6. A harp has four of these, and a guitar has six. What are we talking about?
7. What symbol can you put between 3 and 4, so that the result is higher than 3 but less than 4?
8. Some months have 31 days, some have 30. How many have 28?
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