Posts Tagged ‘puzzle games for adults’
Train your brain to think outside the box with these fun riddles
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 MoreBrain teaser: Will you finish your thesis on time?
Imagine spending the summer polishing your PhD thesis in the library. Every day you take the subway, a train going up North to the university. One day you realize that the trains going South can bring you to the beach. Nothing is wrong with some leisure. You calculate that if you spend half of the…
Read MoreQuick brain teaser to workout your frontal lobes: Can you read this face?
___ 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…
Read More12 quick brain puzzles to welcome a sharp new year
___ 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…
Read MoreTest your memory and reasoning skills with these proverbs
Memory 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…
Read More#19. Exercise your memory and reasoning skills with these proverbs
Memory relies mostly on the temporal (in green) and frontal (in red) lobes of the brain. Neurons and synapses in these areas will get stimulated when you try to remember the missing words in the American proverbs below (assuming you are American or have lived in the US for long). However, when it comes to the…
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