Brain teaser: Please draw the face of a penny

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How many pen­nies have you seen in your life?

Can you rec­og­nize the face of a pen­ny, with all its ele­ments, now?new

You will prob­a­bly find the answer in your pock­ets, not in your mind…

Now, does any­one need to know exact­ly what the face of a pen­ny looks like?

We can prob­a­bly sur­vive with­out know­ing it … our atten­tion and mem­o­ry sys­tems are wise­ly selective.

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  5. casey says

    hahah the answer is a or G you cant read the words in od we trust so you cant be shure

  7. liam says

    our pen­nies just depict the queens head look­ing right with her name and some othe dudes going around the out­side of it.

  9. Aaron says

    I was think­ing between a and g, but I think a pen­ny has the longer curve on top, so I’m going with G, final answer 😛

  12. Susie says

    I don’t think the point is whether or not this exer­cise is “hard.” Hard is a rel­a­tive term when deal­ing with mem­o­ry, in my hum­ble opin­ion. For exam­ple, one who makes his or her liv­ing mak­ing pen­nies may scoff at any­one who could not rec­og­nize the cor­rect pen­ny. How­ev­er, the same indi­vid­ual may feel quite out of his or her ele­ment when asked how many red stripes are on the red and white striped hat of Dr. Seuss’s char­ac­ter “The Cat in the Hat” with­out look­ing. How­ev­er, many chil­dren could quick­ly tell you that the answer is three. What’s rel­e­vant to one per­son may not be all that impor­tant to anoth­er per­son. Thank good­ness we don’t remem­ber every sin­gle detail of every item we’ve seen in our lives. We’d go stark rav­ing mad!