Teasers to boost your brain

The following brain teasers will keep you busy for a while. The answers will be published next week. Enjoy!

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Questions:

Fourteen of the children in the class are girls. Eight of the children wear blue shirts. Two of the children are neither girls nor wear a blue shirt. If five of the children are girls who wear blue shirts, how many children are in the class?

A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most? What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Your parents have six sons including you 7. 8. 9. 10. and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?

I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know he or she is. What is it?

A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?

Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size nine shoes. What does he weigh?

Source: Reader's Digest