🧠 Trick questions: think you’re smart?
10 trick questions with answers
A taste of the question bank. Try to answer before you open the answer.
1. How many months have 28 days?
All 12 months. Every month has at least 28 days, January and March included.
2. You are running a race and pass the runner in second place. What place are you in now?
Second. You passed the second runner, so you took their spot. The leader is still ahead of you.
3. How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?
Once. After the first time you are subtracting from 20, not from 25.
4. A doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long until they are gone?
One hour. One pill now, one after half an hour and one after an hour: three pills in one hour.
5. What color is the blood in our veins?
Dark red. Human blood is always red. Veins only look bluish through the skin.
6. Where on your tongue do you taste sweet?
All over the tongue. The “tongue map” is a myth. Every part of the tongue has receptors for every taste.
7. When is Earth closest to the Sun?
In early January. In early January, in the middle of winter in North America. The seasons are not caused by distance.
8. A patch of lily pads on a lake doubles in size every day. On day 48 it covers the whole lake. On what day did it cover half the lake?
Day 47. If it doubles every day, the day before it covered everything it covered half.
9. A bat and a ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs exactly $1 more than the ball. How much is the ball?
5 cents. If the ball is 5 cents, the bat is $1.05, and together they make $1.10. With a 10-cent ball the total would be $1.20.
10. A game show has 3 doors with a car behind one. You pick a door. The host, who knows where the car is, opens another door with nothing behind it and offers you a switch. What should you do?
Switch: your chance rises to 2/3. The “Monty Hall problem”: your first pick had a 1/3 chance, and that does not change. The other 2/3 moves to the one door still closed.
Trick questions look simple, but they are built so that the first answer that pops into your head is wrong. Some play with words, some test quick math, and many are based on “facts” everyone knows that are not true.
The game has three levels: Warm-up, Tricky and Geniuses only. Every question has a timer; you get three lives and one 50:50. After every answer a short explanation appears, so even if you fall for the trap you learn something new.
Questions and answers
How many questions are in the game?
Every round has 12 questions, 4 from each level, easy to hard. There are 78 questions in the bank, and a new game prefers questions you have not seen yet.
Who is it for?
Teens and grown-ups, and family game night with older kids. The questions are built on thinking traps and popular myths, and every answer comes with an explanation.
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