Very Hard Brain Teasers with Answers

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9) 100 Politicians are attending a political convention. You know that the politicians are either corrupt or honest, nothing in between.
There is at least one honest politician.
If you randomly choose 2 politicians at least one of them will be corrupt.
How many politicians are corrupt and how many are honest?

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8) What are the next two pairs of letters below?

SO, ND, JF, MA, ??, ??

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7) (This is my favorite very hard brain teaser.)
A mother is 21 years older than her son.
In 6 years time the son will be 5 times younger than the mother.
Where is the father?

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5) You have been imprisoned in a castle and your prison guards decide to tempt you with freedom, but at a big risk. They show you 2 doors, each with a guard standing in front, one door leads to the hanging gallows and the other leads directly out the castle and into freedom.
You are told that one guard is a liar, and will always lie and the other guard will speak only the truth.
You have no idea which guard is which, or what door is what.
Your prison guards laugh and inform you that you may only ask One question.
Impossible you think at first, but then you have a moment of inspiration. What question do you ask?

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4) A lecturer decides to play a fun logic game. She selects 3 students to stand in a row facing the front of the class. The student at the back (C) can see both students in front, The student in the middle (B) can see only the student in front and the student in front A) can't see the other 2 students.

The lecturer shows the students 3 white caps and 2 black caps, and puts them in a bag. The lecturer then blindfolds each student and asks them to select a cap and put it on their heads.
The lecturer then removes their blindfolds and asks the students to solve by logic what color caps they are wearing. (They cannot see the color of their own caps.)

The student in front (A) just laughs, because what chance does he have! They stand like this for a few minutes, none of the students can guess at the color of their caps. And then the student in the front (A) shouts that he knows what color cap he is wearing.

How is this possible?

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Hint: Solve by using process of elimination.

3) Using only basic arithmetic operations (+ - x /) can you get 98 using only 7 sevens? Each 7 may only be used once and you must use all 7 sevens.

7 7 7 7 7 7 7

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2) A man wants to take a 1.25 meter-long rolled up painting onto a train, but the the conductor wont permit items whose greatest dimensions exceeds 1 meter. What should he do?

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1) What number is missing from the sequence below?

8 5 4 9 1 _ 6 10 3 2 0

Hint: Use lateral thinking to solve this.

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