#18. Mind teaser to exercise your frontal and parietal lobes

71 Comments

1. Neethster on October 1, 2008 at 8:27

   I got 33 and 59.

   
   
   
   • Nick on May 17, 2016 at 6:20

     i love it

     
     
     
     • Nick on May 17, 2016 at 6:24

       i don’t know if you have a radio

       
       
       
2. John on October 7, 2008 at 2:46

   If you nor­mal­ly read left to right, try count­ing find­ing the num­bers scan­ning right to left… it will increase the accu­ra­cy. And, scan­ning from bot­tom to top (if you nor­mal­ly read top to bot­tom) will help you not skip lines.

   
   
   
3. Birgi on November 25, 2008 at 1:15

   first I got 34 6es then I was count again and I got
   33 of 6es.
   I was got only
   27 of 3s and 7s at the same time.

   
   
   
4. red on December 18, 2008 at 6:45

   33–6
   59–3&7

   
   
   
5. Kayla on January 8, 2009 at 3:15

   I got exact­ly 33 and 59 sooo excit­ed woohoo!!

   
   
   
6. anne on February 1, 2009 at 1:18

   19 & 55

   
   
   
7. anne on February 1, 2009 at 1:25

   19 & 55
   2nd try:
   33 & 55

   
   
   
8. ana on February 19, 2009 at 4:09

   33 6s woo hoo!

   I read the instruc­tions that we had to count the 3s and 7s indi­vid­u­al­ly but at the same time so to keep track I count­ed the 3s using num­bers and the 7s using the alpha­bet… and came out with 23 3s and 36 7s = 59 total I’m shocked !!!

   
   
   
9. DAVIS on February 27, 2009 at 6:53

   I got 33/ 3s.AND I ADDED AS I WENT THRU THE 3S AND 7S CAME UP W/ 332

   
   
   
10. Susie on February 28, 2009 at 6:40

    Well, if I had been a sol­dier I would have missed one of the ene­mies named “3” and would have mis­tak­en one of my own peo­ple as a “3” or a “7.” Not good in battle!

    I got 32 6’s. And I got 60 7&3’s. I tried it two dif­fer­ent ways. First I tried visu­al­ly match­ing 7’s and 3’s togeth­er to make 10’s so it would be eas­i­er to add. I found myself mark­ing 7’s with my fin­ger on the screen, though, since they were not even­ly matched. Then I tried a dif­fer­ent strat­e­gy which could tech­ni­cal­ly be cheat­ing, I sup­pose. As I came to a 3, I would name them in order such as 3–1, 3–2, 3–3, while also nam­ing the 7’s aloud as I came to them, 7–1, 7–2, …by the end I was at 3–24 and 7–36. I then men­tal­ly added 24 + 36 = 60.
    So, I did them as I went, but sep­a­rate­ly, as well.

    
    
    
11. Are D on March 11, 2009 at 8:27

    Nice exer­cise! But I’m a bit puz­zled at some­thing: In the text at the top of this page you say this task exer­cis­es the Frontal and Pari­etal lobe, and that the Pari­etal lobe deals with visu­al inter­pre­ta­tion. I thought the Occip­i­tal lobe was the pri­ma­ry visu­al inter­pre­ta­tion cen­tre, and that the Pari­etal lobe main­ly deals with sen­so­ry infor­ma­tion. How come this isn’t an exer­cise main­ly for the Frontal and the Occip­i­tal lobe?

    
    
    
12. hides on March 11, 2009 at 9:03

    yeah, 33=6’s and 59=3’s + 7’s

    
    
    
13. Willow on April 28, 2009 at 5:14

    I have a closed head injury and find the exer­cis­es a bit of a men­tal work­out. Since I found your site I try and do a few exer­cis­es every day.

    
    
    
14. lizzy on May 2, 2009 at 10:49

    6 = 29
    3 & 7 = 59

    
    
    
15. Neeti on October 26, 2009 at 7:46

    33 and 59 !

    
    
    
16. Abhishek on November 7, 2009 at 3:52

    33 and 59

    
    
    
17. Saeed on November 12, 2009 at 7:56

    I got 32 and 58 not bad one way!

    
    
    
18. Nick on May 17, 2016 at 6:23

    oh yes

    
    
    
19. Satya on May 29, 2020 at 7:51

    This is intense!