Brain Teasers

Answers at the bottom.

Question 1
A man is walking his dog. The dog runs off into the distance and does not come back. The next day the man sets out to find his dog. He sees his pooch on the other side of a river. The man calls for the dog and it happily comes to his master. There are no bridges and the dog cannot swim. How did he get across?

Question 2

Here are some names of sweets and chocolates but written in a strange way. For example, “Clever clogs” would be “Smarties”. Get the idea?

1) Mother’s Pub
2) Where posh people live
3) A ladies dancing move
4) Wobbly infants

Question 3

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Answer 1
It’s winter, the river is frozen!

Answer 2
1) Mars Bar
2) Quality Street
3) Twirl
4) Jelly Babies

Answer 3
The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I