brain puzzles for adults

Fun brain teaser to test your cognitive skills during International Brain Teaser Month

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Mem­o­ry relies most­ly on the tem­po­ral lobes (see green area) and also the frontal lobes (red), Temporal lobe Frontal Lobeso those are the areas that will get some good neu­ronal acti­va­tion when read­ers raised in the US try to remem­ber the miss­ing words in the Amer­i­can proverbs below.

Now, if you were raised out­side the US and are not famil­iar with those proverbs you will have to use your rea­son­ing skills more than your mem­o­ry skills — In that case, frontal lobe acti­va­tion will be wider and more intense.

Con­verse­ly, if you were raised in the US you will find the inter­na­tion­al proverbs below to be more chal­leng­ing. You will not be able to remem­ber them, as you prob­a­bly nev­er learned them, but you should be able to fig­ure them out for extra frontal lobe, cog­ni­tive exercise.

Here’s the task: Guess the miss­ing words of each US and inter­na­tion­al proverb below. Get a pen and piece of paper and write your answers before you check the solutions 🙂

Ready, Set, Go! [Read more…] about Fun brain teas­er to test your cog­ni­tive skills dur­ing Inter­na­tion­al Brain Teas­er Month

Brain Teaser: What shirt size you need?

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You have been invit­ed to a fundrais­ing gala at your old col­lege (via Zoom of course) and decide that this black-tie event demands a super white Ital­ian shirt, like the one you bought years ago for your wedding.

When you find and brave­ly try the wed­ding shirt on (size 16), your wife notices that the col­lar suf­fo­cates you — you DO need about 1/4″ more space every­where in-between your neck and the col­lar all around your neck.

So you’ll need a new shirt.

What size shirt do you need to buy?  [Read more…] about Brain Teas­er: What shirt size you need?

Train your brain to think outside the box with these fun riddles

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– Con­cept art devel­oped for the Jun­gle Book movie by Annis Naeem

 

Q: What do our thought process­es have in com­mon with walk­ing through the jungle?
A: We only make real progress after acknowl­edg­ing going in circles.

Q: What is the worst kind of echo?
[Read more…] about Train your brain to think out­side the box with these fun riddles

Quick brain teaser to workout your frontal lobes: Can you read this face?

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Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, in dis­cussing the human brain’s frontal lobes in his excel­lent book The Wis­dom Para­dox, high­lights that “exec­u­tive intel­li­gence” includes the abil­i­ty to “pen­e­trate oth­er people’s minds, and that starts with an inter­est in oth­er people’s minds.”

And, what is a good win­dow to “pen­e­trate oth­er people’s minds” and iden­ti­fy oth­er peo­ple’s emo­tions? [Read more…] about Quick brain teas­er to work­out your frontal lobes: Can you read this face?

12 quick brain puzzles to welcome a sharp new year

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Q: What is by far the most out­stand­ing and sur­pris­ing of all humankind’s successes?
A: Wak­ing up in the morning.

Q: Of our many tools, which is one of the most pow­er­ful, and yet the most pliable?
A: Statistics.

Q: Who insists that mind­less obe­di­ence is a sign of intelligence?
A: All of us — when refer­ring to our pets. [Read more…] about 12 quick brain puz­zles to wel­come a sharp new year

Test your memory and reasoning skills with these proverbs

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Temporal lobe Frontal LobeMem­o­ry relies most­ly on tem­po­ral (green area) and frontal (in red) areas of the brain. These are the areas where many neu­rons will get stim­u­lat­ed when you (assum­ing you are Amer­i­can or have lived in the US for long) try to remem­ber the miss­ing words in the Amer­i­can proverbs below.

How­ev­er when it comes to the inter­na­tion­als proverbs below you will prob­a­bly have to use your rea­son­ing skills more than your mem­o­ry skills — as it is like­ly you nev­er even heard them. In this case, the frontal lob­al exer­cise will be more intense.

Yes, if you live out­side the USA, your expe­ri­ence will prob­a­bly be the reverse.

Chal­lenge: Try to remem­ber (or guess) the final words of each proverb! [Read more…] about Test your mem­o­ry and rea­son­ing skills with these proverbs