BT Quiz In Which Don't Want To Think Too Hard

Answer: television

It's your television. The questions in the Fractured Words quizzes may ask for one or more words (look at the hint to see how many); the clue words must be real words themselves. There are also fractured word quizzes in entertainment-related categories.

Answer: All over the world

Wordwise is a rebus-type category done in text, kind of like a text-based video game except you don't move from scene to scene or have to fight zombies. You solve them by looking at word positions, words inside words, deciphering phrases (like the example in this question) and other methods to taunt you.

In a photo rebus quiz authors can use pictures or drawings to make rebuses a lot like the ones we used to find in newspapers and comic books.

Answer: Shelley

This type of quiz may involve names or (hopefully) well-known phrases. While the usual format is for the player to guess the middle word of a three-word answer, occasionally an author will write a more difficult quiz, giving the middle word and some clues about the phrase; the player must guess the first and last words.

Answer: pans

Back Words quizzes usually give you clues in the sentence to help point you to the correct word to reverse. Or they may ask you to find words which are the reverse spelling of each other. Or they may give hints and ask you to come up with a palindrome (a word spelled the same frontwards and backwards).

Answer: ford

Hidden Words quizzes present you with serious, or silly, statements, and you must find certain words which are inside another word or which span two or sometimes three words. The quizzes may have a theme or just be random sentences. You'll also find hidden word quizzes in other categories besides Brain Teasers.

Answer: invisible man

Missing Letters quizzes rely on letters being removed from words; you need to put them back. The clue may be straightforward or a bit cryptic. Mostly you'll be asked to reinsert vowels but some quizzes ask you to fill in missing parts of a word, or alternate letters may be left out.

Answer: iceman

"The Iceman Cometh" was a 1973 movie. Some anagram quizzes would have you make a new word, or two words, from a group of highlighted letters. Others require you to come up with synonyms of highlighted words which use the same letters.

Answer: wheel

Words in Common is one of the largest categories in Brain Teasers. You may be asked to find a common word, such as in this question, or be given a word (like 'tar') to which you will have to add letters to make a new word. This type of quiz is open to a lot of inventiveness.

Answer: 3 feet in a yard

The categories are getting a little tougher now. Number Phrases quizzes fall under the Wordplay division of Brain Teasers. They involve a phrase with many letters removed and using one or more numbers to guide you to the answer. Not always easy to write or solve, they often involve some head scratching.

Answer: Logic Puzzle

Well, we just ran out of fairly easy categories. My setup for the question here is somewhat basic (okay, a lot but I was having cognitive issues) but in a logic puzzle you have to deduce answers from a set of parameters (usually 5 to 10 in a Fun Trivia quiz), which are designed to make you think and reason. Having a pen and paper nearby would also be a good idea too as some of these quizzes are very complicated and require quite a bit of work.