Column Chronicles: Another new bunch of brain scramblers

Another new bunch of brain scramblers

Frank Cotolo
April 17, 2025

Who does not love a good riddle? Now and again we host some fun but perplexing tests of the readers' mental abilities with new brain scramblers. We warn you: these are tough. Write to us for answers.

Breakfast is served at nine a.m. and lunch is served at two p.m. Dinner is served at seven p.m. You are the cook preparing the menus. Why would you find it necessary to alter the times the meals are being served?

Explain stream-of-consciousness in the style of stream-of-consciousness.

Your car explodes while you are driving four passengers. Three of them are Neo-Nazis and the other is the leader of The Monestary Of Peaceful Praying Monks. Two Neo-Nazis die in the explosion. The leader of The Monestary Of Peaceful Praying Monks wants to know why he was riding with Neo-Nazis in the first place. Explain why you are not a Neo-Nazi.

You are the proprietor of a bakery in a neighborhood resided by people speaking six languages. How do you price a loaf of bread?

You leave the Pipidon Rail Station at midnight. Your divorced wife leaves the Frendox Rail Station at ten of midnight. Your train travels 60 mph and her train travels 78 mph. Which ticket cost more?

If the king of a country is succeeded by his son is a queen of a country succeeded by her daughter? If so then explain the bloodline rules for each case. If not then explain the ancient reason for incest.

I am a hungry and yet I am full from eating too much porridge. I refuse a bowl of wheat-based bread and yet I embrace sandwiches. My weakness is apple pie but apple cake makes me vomit. What character in a Dickens novel am I?

Where is the north if the south changes places with the west and the east never existed?

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.