The Five-Minute Logic Gauntlet
🧩 Brain Teasers⏱ 2 min7 questions
Seven puzzles lie ahead, each with exactly one correct answer, which makes this the rare quiz where wrong is a real place you can visit. Sequences, an odd one out, a spot of deduction — nothing requiring a calculator, everything requiring a suspicious mind.
Speed matters less than you think and hubris matters more. The traps here are the classics: answers that feel right for roughly four seconds. Distrust your first instinct exactly once per question, check your working like someone is grading it, and find out which of the four tiers claims you at the end.
1/7
What number continues the sequence: 2, 6, 18, 54, …?
2/7
One of these does not belong: swan, eagle, bat, owl. Which, and why?
3/7
Every plimb is a snock, and no snock can swim. What must be true?
4/7
A pencil and an eraser cost $1.10 together. The pencil costs exactly one dollar more than the eraser. What does the eraser cost?
5/7
Which letter comes next: J, F, M, A, M, J, …?
6/7
If the day before yesterday was Thursday, what day will the day after tomorrow be?
7/7
Three sealed boxes are labelled Apples, Oranges and Mixed, and every label is wrong. You may draw one fruit from one box to deduce all three contents. Which box do you open?
