what is your favorite brainteaser that you have tried or seen? share it if it is a riddle, and we'll all try to solve it!

my favorite brainteaser is not very hard, but it took me 10 minutes to figure out, and the answer was so obvious!

A dad is driving his son to a baseball game. the car passes over the train tracks and breaks down right in the middle of them. before the father or the son can get out, a train comes barreling down the tracks, badly wounding the boy, and killing the father. the boy is taken to the hospital to be operated on, and when the surgeon sees the boy, the surgeon turns pale white and says, "I can't operate on this boy. he's my son!"

how is this possible?

The surgeon is the boys stepdad? maybe I dont know.

the surgeon is his MOTHER! surprise!

you're also supposed to share YOUR favorite brainteaser, too.

That one was easy...
Although this is also kinda easy...and common...
A boy wants to cross a river with a mouse, a cat and a dog. They have a boat , but only the boy and one of the pets can go along. The boy can´t leave the mouse and the cat alone and he can´t leave the cat and the dog alone... how do he get across with all three animals...?

rka0917 :

He either takes the cat or they all swim.

epic-san : That....Was a riddle? That was incredibly easy.
Now then, I have a few:
10/10 Picarats:
Here is a nice simple puzzle: What is the last letter of the alphabet? Oh, by the way, it isn't Z.
15/15 Picarats:
Mary's father has 5 children:
Nana
Nene
Nono
and Nini.
What is the fifth child's name?
20/20 Picarats:
You have a torch, a fireplace, and an old fashioned stove that you have to start with a flame. You only have one match, and you must light all of them. Which do you light first?
20/20 Picarats:
You have to empty a bathtub. You have a teaspoon, a tablespoon, and a five-gallon bucket. What do you use to empty the tub?
99/99 Picarats:
A man is standing in an elevator in his apartment building. His wife is alone in the apartment upstairs, then something happens, and he knows his wife is either dead or dying. What happened?
rka0917 :
I heard that one with a fox, a chicken and a bag of grain.
He takes the cat across leaving the dog and the mouse. He then goes back and picks up the dog and brings it across and takes the cat back to the starting side, and takes the mouse over to the ending side. He goes back and gets the cat.
15/15 Picarats.

I never heard an answer to my riddle!

rka0917 : See my above post. I answered it correctly.

sorry, didn´t read the whole thing...

spell spell spell spell spell
and the answer is spell sell spell spell my friend tried that on me i didn't even know what the heck he was saying infact i had no idea it was a riddle you had to spell spell 4 times

I like wordies. Things like thewbearoods, would be bear in the woods.

I use puzzles more, and I like them more.

Now to answer my puzzles, since nobody else wants to:
10/10 Picarats:
Here is a nice simple puzzle: What is the last letter of the alphabet? Oh, by the way, it isn't Z. The answer is "t" The Alphabet
15/15 Picarats:
Mary's father has 5 children:
Nana
Nene
Nono
and Nini.
What is the fifth child's name? The fifth daughter's name is Mary. Mary's father...
20/20 Picarats:
You have a torch, a fireplace, and an old fashioned stove that you have to start with a flame. You only have one match, and you must light all of them. Which do you light first? You light the match first.
20/20 Picarats:
You have to empty a bathtub. You have a teaspoon, a tablespoon, and a five-gallon bucket. What do you use to empty the tub? You pull the plug.
99/99 Picarats:
A man is standing in an elevator in his apartment building. His wife is alone in the apartment upstairs, then something happens, and he knows his wife is either dead or dying. What happened? The power went out. His wife is upstairs hooked up to a breathing machine, and is dying because it can't get any power.
On a completely unrelated matter, I like those kinds of puzzles too Alex.