My Dog had 7 Puppies. Their names were: All, Ball, Tall, Fall, Hall, Call, Wall. What is the mother’s name?

This image shows a simple word puzzle that can easily confuse readers at first glance. It says a dog had 7 puppies, and their names were All, Ball, Tall, Fall, Hall, Call, and Wall. Then it asks: “What is the mothers name.”

The trick is in the wording.

Many people try to look for a hidden pattern in the puppies’ names, but the real answer is already written in the last line. The sentence is not really asking a normal question. It is telling you the mother’s name.

The correct answer is: What.

So the mother dog’s name is What.

This puzzle works because most people read the last line as a question, when it is actually meant to be read as a statement with the answer hidden in plain sight. That is what makes it a fun and clever brain teaser.