Below you can find the Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games that our read­ers have enjoyed the most. It is always good to learn about our brains and to exer­cise them!

(If you already have tried the 50 brain teasers below, you can visit this page for more: Lat­est Games for the Brain.)

Fun Exper­i­ments on how our Brains Work

1. Do you think you know your col­ors? Try the Stroop Test.

2. Can you count? Bas­ket­ball atten­tion exper­i­ment (Interactive).

3. Take the Senses Chal­lenge (Interactive).

4. Are there more brain con­nec­tions or leaves in the Ama­zon?.

5. Who is this? A very impor­tant lit­tle guy (Interactive).

6. How is this pos­si­ble?.

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Atten­tion

7. How are your divided atten­tion skills? Check out “Inside and Out­side” (Interactive).

8. Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? Try “Two in One” (Interactive ).

9. Count the Fs in this sen­tence.

10. Mon­keys and Brain Games: Is your atten­tion bet­ter than a chimp’s? (Interactive)

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Mem­ory Brain Games

11. Brain Teasers for the Week­end: A few chal­lenges to exer­cise your atten­tion and work­ing memory.

12. Proud of your visual short-term mem­ory? Give a try at “Picasso”. (Inter­ac­tive)

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Pat­tern Recog­ni­tion and Plan­ning

13. Plan­ning is not that easy: Tow­ers of Hanoi (Interactive).

14. What is the miss­ing num­ber? Pat­tern Recog­ni­tion Brain Teaser.

15. Brain puz­zle for the whole brain: The Blind Beg­gar.

16. Find the miss­ing num­ber in The Empty Tri­an­gle.

17. What about Tip­ping the Scales?

18. Don’t be mis­led by this brain teaser.

19. Please find the miss­ing num­ber here.

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Visual Brain Teasers

20. Test the lim­its of your periph­eral vision with this chal­lenge (Interactive).

21. How many…: Train your Frontal and Pari­etal lobes.

22. Is a cir­cle a cir­cle?: Visual Per­cep­tion Brain Teaser.

23. Men­tal Imagery and Spa­tial Rota­tion challenge.

24. What piece fits here?.

25. Can you men­tally build this box?

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Visual Illu­sions

26. The Muller-Lyer Illu­sion (Interactive).

27. Don’t try this with your part­ner, or you may fight.

28. How many col­ors do you see in The Her­mann Grid?

29. This is less obvi­ous than it may appear.

30. Is this a cir­cle or what?

31. The lim­its of our per­cep­tion and per­fec­tion.

32. Are these 2 rows par­al­lel?

33. What do you see?

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Lan­guage and Logic Brain Teasers

34. Words in your brain: Do you know where words are “stored” in your brain?

35. Join this Party For Poly­glots.

36. Solve Dr. Nasty’s Giant Cube.

37. Which way is the bus head­ing?

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Brain Teasers with a Cor­po­rate Angle

38. Col­lec­tion of Stress Man­age­ment exer­cises.

39. Some Google/ Microsoft Brain Teasers used in interviews.

40. A few guessti­ma­tions like the ones I was asked in McK­in­sey inter­views years ago.

41. More guessti­ma­tions.

42. Your last Aha! moment?

43. Can you read these faces?

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Math Puz­zles

44. Choose the right Fork in the Road.

45. Find the the Really, Really, Really Big Num­ber.

46. Hard: The Unkind­est Cut of All, Part 1 of 2.

47. For geniuses: Con­cen­tric Shapes or The Unkind­est Cut of All, Part 2 of 2.

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Tough to Cat­e­go­rize Brain Games

48. Clin­i­cally proven Stress Man­age­ment tip.

49. Enjoy this Sun­day After­noon Quiz.

50. Your Haiku, Please?: A haiku in honor of brain research.

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