2017 StudyTrek Brainteaser and Fact Finder Solutions
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What am I?
What am I?
Number Game
Number Puzzle
T Time
Checkers for Two
Pink Puzzle
Hidden Meaning
Word Play
Find the Number
Fact Finder
What Number?
Lucky Number Eight
Apples Aplenty
Barnyard Fun
Family Ties
Word Play
All Aboard!
Word Play
What number?
What Am I?
Fact Finder
Story Time
Cowboy Conundrum
High Tide
Fill in the Gaps
Number Game
What Am I?
River Riddle
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What Am I?
Word Play
What Comes Next?
Fact Finder
Rooster Riddle
Who Am I?
House Rules
Fill in the Gaps
Who Am I?
Cat Curiosity
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Hidden Meaning
Shhh…
What Am I?
Fact Finder
Pair the Socks!
Word Play
Hidden Meaning
Word Play
Fact Finder
SOLUTION
Breath.
The letter M.
16, 7 (- 9 for each number)
Seven (take away the ‘s’ and it becomes ‘even’).
A teapot.
The two men are not playing against each other.
It is a one-story house, so there are no stairs
Tricycle
Deers.
45 (1/5 of 45 = 9, 9 + 45 = 54)
742,452,000 (Page 9)
141
888 +88 +8 +8 +8 =1,000
You took three apples, so you have three.
There are four feet. Cats have paws, not feet.
Eight children - one son, seven daughters.
Racecar.
One leaves at 1:00 in the afternoon and one leaves at 1:00 in the morning.
Almost.
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A shoe.
Mercury (page 14).
A library.
His horse’s name is Friday.
None, because the boat moves with the tide.
90 percent/native vegetation/ desert/ six / crops /
99 + (9 ÷ 9) = 100
Day breaks and night falls.
Take the chicken over and leave the fox and the grain. Go and get the fox, then drop
it off and pickup the chicken. Take the chicken back across and pickup the grain and
leave the chicken. Drop the grain off with the fox and take the chicken over.
Silence.
I am.
N and D. They are the first letters of each month of the year.
Local, State and Federal. Page 11
Roosters don’t lay eggs!
A river.
Glass.
fossil fuels/ oil/ natural gas/ underground/ transport / electricity.
A candle
There is a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter. The grandmother is also the
mother’s mother, so there are 2 daughters and 2 mothers, but only a total of 3 people.
Reading between the lines.
A secret.
An envelope.
Willem Janszoon (Page 10)
Three times.
Queue.
Double vision.
Startling: starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.
6 major rivers. (Page 9)
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