脑筋急转弯分类比较广泛：有益智类，搞笑类，数学类，成人类等。脑筋急转弯是种娱乐方式，同时也是一种大众化的文字游戏。
英语绕口令
1.Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
2.Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
3.Theodore is thinner than Thelma.
4.How now brown cow.
5.Tell Tom to talk to tillie today.
6.Red lorry yellow lorry.
7.Wacky Wendy went to Western Washington to wash her windows.
8.The six shieks sixth sick sheep slept soundly.
9.Toy boat.
10.How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Questions:
1.A boat turned over and the two men on board fell in the
water. But only one man got his hair wet. Why
船翻了，船上的两个人掉到水里，可是只有其中一人头发湿了，这
是为什么
2.Mother wants to give the three apples in her basket to
her three girls so that each girl gets one whole apple
and there's still one in her basket.How can she manage
to do that
妈妈想把篮子里的三个苹果分给三个女儿，每个女儿一个完整的苹
果，同时篮子里也有一个苹果。她如何做到这一点
Keys:
1.The other man was bald.
其中另一人秃头。
2.Give two girls an apple each and give the third girl her apple
in the basket.
其中两个女儿每人一只苹果，另外一个女儿得一只篮子，篮子里放
着第三只苹果。
Notes:
1.on board在船上，在交通工具上
bald /b&ld/ adj.秃头的，光头的
英语笑话故事：Blind Date相亲(笑话)
After being with her all evening, the man couldn't take another minute with his blind date. Earlier, he had secretly arranged to have a friend call him to the phone so he would have an excuse to leave.When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a grimexpression and said, "I have some bad news. My grandfather just died.""Thank heavens," his date replied. "If yours hadn't, mine would have had to!"
和相亲对象呆了一晚上后，男人再也受不了了。他事先安排了个朋友给他打电话，这样他就能借故先离开了。当他回到桌边，他垂下眼睛，装出一副阴沉的表情，说：“有个不幸的消息，我的祖父刚刚去世了。”“谢天谢地！”他的约会对象说，“如果你的祖父不死，我的祖父就得死了！”
1. Which is the longest English word? Why?
【谜底：smiles (There's a mile between the first and the last letter.)】
2. How can you tell clocks and watches are shy?
【谜底：Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.】
3. Why does the boy carry a ladder to the school?
【谜底：Because he wants to go to high school.】
4. What surprising things happen every hours?
【谜底：Day breaks, but doesn't fall; night falls, but doesn't break.】
5. What animal eats and drinks with its tail?
【谜底：All do. No animal takes off its tail when eating and drinking.】
6. What's the difference between a hill and a pill?
【谜底：A hill is hard to get up and a pill is hard to get down.】
7. What did one invisible man say to the other invisible man?
【谜底：It's nice not to see you again.】
8. Why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York Harbor?
【谜底：Because it can't sit down.】
9. What can be measured but has no length, width or thickness?
【谜底：The temperature.】
10. I am very big and heavy I have a long nose and big ears.What am I ?
【谜底：an elephant】
11. What can hear you without ears and can answer you without a mouth?
【谜底：An echo.】
12. What has a soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speaks?
【谜底：A river.】
13. When the boy fell into the water, what's the first thing he did?
【谜底：He got wet first of all.】
14. What will you do if a man-eating tiger is running after you? Nothing.
【谜底：Because I'm a woman.】
15. Why is the person wearing two coats while painting the house?
【谜底：Because the instructions on the paint can say “Put on two coats for best results.”】
16. When can you have an empty pocket and still have something in it?
【谜底：When you have a hole in your pocket.】
17. What's too much for one, just right for two, but nothing at all for three?
【谜底：A secret.】
18. You have it,You read it,There are some words and pictures on it.What is it?
【谜底：a book】
19. What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long?
【谜底：a clock】
20. If there were only three girls in the world, what do you think they would do?
【谜底：Two of them would get together and talk about the other one.】
21. Name five days of the week without saying: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
【谜底：The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow.】
22. What animal has a head like a cat, eyes like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat?
【谜底：A kitten.】
23. What has cities with no houses, rivers without water and forests without trees?
【谜底：A map.】
24. Sometimes it looks like a boat,Sometimes it looks like a small white sun.What is it?
【谜底：the moon】
25. Who isn't your sister and isn't your brother, but is still a child of your mother and father?
【谜底：Myself.】
26. A policeman saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't give him a ticket. Why?
【谜底：Because the truck driver was walking.】
27. I am always with you.Sometimes behind you, sometimes before you, sometimes by your side, but you can't see me in the dark.
【谜底：shadow】
28. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
【谜底：river】
29. You throw away the outside and cook the inside.hen you eat the outside and throw away the inside.What did you eat?
【谜底：chicken】
30. A doctor and a lawyer loved the same girl. The lawyer went away for a week and gave the girl seven apples before he left. Why?
【谜底：Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away】