[For Seniors] Fun Brain Training! A Collection of Tricky Quizzes You’ll Definitely Get Stumped By

softball

There are various kinds of ball games, but the answer to this riddle is “softball.” That’s because “sofu to booru” (祖父とボール), meaning “grandfather and ball,” sounds like “sofutobōru,” or “softball.” The key is whether you can get from the word “ojīchan” (grandpa) in the riddle to the word “sofu” (祖父, grandfather) in the pun.

sea

The answer is “the sea”! With this question, you might naturally start thinking about which prefecture borders the most other prefectures. But the question doesn’t actually say “which prefecture” it is asking about. So the one that borders the most prefectures is the sea! It’s a riddle unique to an island nation.

Grandfather and grandmother

Momotaro met the dog, the monkey, and the pheasant in that order, made them his retainers, and set off to defeat the ogres. So you might be tempted to answer “the dog,” but that’s the trick! The ones he meets before the animals are, in fact, the old man and the old woman.

one

For this problem, it’s not asking how many carrots are left after pulling one out from the five planted in the field. Instead, the answer is the number of marks left in the soil from pulling out the carrot. Therefore, the answer isn’t 4, but rather “1,” corresponding to the number that was pulled out.

Because the jump was from the first floor

Because it says “a 25-story high-rise apartment,” it’s easy to mistakenly think they jumped from a high floor, right? You might start imagining things like: was there a shrub to cushion the fall? Did someone on the ground catch them? But the answer is simple: they jumped from the first floor.