Here is a set of five puzzles which will challenge your thinking and make you realize how much of a slave we are to our mind patterns. And as I emphasise every time , I say it again , to reach a new level of happiness you need to upgrade your brain to happier attitudes. One of the ways to do so is to constantly challenge the ingrained habits and thought maps. Think different, stay happy.
Read Answers only after you have tried your level best at each one. It’s more fun that way.
- You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus.
A An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
B. An old friend who once saved your life.
C. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?
- Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don’t know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they’ve got their man?
3.How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?
4.A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says, ‘I can’t operate on this boy – for he is my son!!!’ How can this possibly be?
5.There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?
Are you at your wits end,BTW how many times did you curse, creative people do curse a lot!
Here are the answers.
