Lateral Thinking Puzzles are great fun and a good way to stimulate a group of children or students and can help to boost your intellect but they are also used by innovators and inventors to create new ideas and products for companies.
Lateral Thinking Puzzles, unlike most puzzles, are inexact. In a sense, they are a hybrid between puzzles and storytelling. In each puzzle, some clues to a scenario are given, but the clues don't tell the full story. Your job is to fill in the details and complete the story. Obviously, there is usually more than one answer to any given puzzle, but, in general, only one solution is truly satisfying.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Friday, 27 August 2010
The Best IQ Question
This Question was developed and used in Japan for job and university IQ tests. Mainly used in the IT sector. This test is solved in around 15mins . Let's see can you get every one on the other side?
The Question is :
There are some people at one shore of the river and a boat. They have to cross the river. The people consists of a Mother with 2 daughters, a Father with 2 sons , a Thief and a Police officer.
The Rules are :
1. Only two people can travel at once through the boat.
2. Only the Police officer and the parents can drive the boat across the river . The children and the thief can't drive the boat.
3. Daddy can not stay with the girls without the presence of the mother, otherwise he will kill them.
4. Mum cant stay with the boys without the presence of the father, otherwise she will kill them.
5. The arrested Thief cannot stay with any of the family members without the Police officer, otherwise he will kill anyone of them.
6. These rules apply on both the shores of the river.
7. The Police officer can only prevent the thief from killing anyone (if they are on same shore) , he can't prevent the family members from killing if above conditions is violated even when he is on the same shore.
Now , By what method and order will you make everyone cross the river safely so that no one kills anyone and no one dies ?
The Question is :
There are some people at one shore of the river and a boat. They have to cross the river. The people consists of a Mother with 2 daughters, a Father with 2 sons , a Thief and a Police officer.
The Rules are :
1. Only two people can travel at once through the boat.
2. Only the Police officer and the parents can drive the boat across the river . The children and the thief can't drive the boat.
3. Daddy can not stay with the girls without the presence of the mother, otherwise he will kill them.
4. Mum cant stay with the boys without the presence of the father, otherwise she will kill them.
5. The arrested Thief cannot stay with any of the family members without the Police officer, otherwise he will kill anyone of them.
6. These rules apply on both the shores of the river.
7. The Police officer can only prevent the thief from killing anyone (if they are on same shore) , he can't prevent the family members from killing if above conditions is violated even when he is on the same shore.
Now , By what method and order will you make everyone cross the river safely so that no one kills anyone and no one dies ?
A Mind Boggling IQ Question
There were 5 persons standing at one side of a bridge on a pitch dark night. All of Them have to cross the bridge. The speeds of all persons are different and they take 1 sec , 3 sec , 6 sec, 8 sec , 12 sec respectively to cross the bridge. Only 2 persons at most can cross the bridge at a time, that only using the Lamp to see in the dark, without it no one can cross it. This means if 2 persons go with the lamp for the first time then one of them has to return back to handover the lamp. The Lamp will glow for a total of 30 sec, which means all of them has to cross the bridge in 30s . Also when 2 persons are crossing the bridge both the persons will walk at the speed of slower one, which means if 6 sec person is travelling with 12 sec person then it will take 12 sec for both to reach the other end. Also the time during handing over will also be counted as the lamp will glow at that time also which means if 6s and 12s goes , and 6s returns then total time will be 24s. Now, tell in what order and pairs will all of them cross the bridge and in what time ?
A Mathematical Puzzle
Once in a marriage party people from three castes arrived namely The Brahmans , The Rajputs and The Muslims. The food arrangement at the party consisted 100 plates for 100 people . The Brahmans said that each one of them will eat 4 plates. The Rajputs said that each one of them will eat 2 plates. The Muslims then said that 4 of them can eat from 1 plate. The Number of plates and people cannot be changed then find the number of Brahmans , Rajputs and Muslims that were at the party so that all of them ate the food as per conditions.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
SUCCESS PLAN ::::: BETTER REVISION
We remember only 18% of what we have learnt initially, after 24 hours and we tend to forget rest of 82%. This is a very important fact for you to remember. We will discuss below how can prevent this loss by using the technique of Systematic Revision which is a programmed pattern of review.
The human brain has 1500 crore neurons or brain cells. Each single brain cell makes connection with 5000 to 10,000 other brain cells. The brain can be imagined to be a huge telephone network. When we learn something, new connections are created in the brain. Repetition strengthens that network.
Famous author Tony Buzan recommends Systematic Revision like this. The first review should take place 10 minutes after a one hour learning period and should itself take 10 minutes. This will keep the recall high for approximately one day, when the next review should take place, this time for a period of 2 to 4 minutes. After this, recall will probably be retained for approximately a week, when another 2 minute review can be completed followed by a further review after about one month.
Systematic Revision is an extremely powerful scientific technique for transferring information from the short-term memory to long-tern memory. This technique Improves your learning, thinking and remembering.
The human brain has 1500 crore neurons or brain cells. Each single brain cell makes connection with 5000 to 10,000 other brain cells. The brain can be imagined to be a huge telephone network. When we learn something, new connections are created in the brain. Repetition strengthens that network.
Famous author Tony Buzan recommends Systematic Revision like this. The first review should take place 10 minutes after a one hour learning period and should itself take 10 minutes. This will keep the recall high for approximately one day, when the next review should take place, this time for a period of 2 to 4 minutes. After this, recall will probably be retained for approximately a week, when another 2 minute review can be completed followed by a further review after about one month.
Systematic Revision is an extremely powerful scientific technique for transferring information from the short-term memory to long-tern memory. This technique Improves your learning, thinking and remembering.
SUCCESS PLAN ::::: REMEMBER IN A BETTER WAY
In order to reduce or remove the causes of forgetting and so be able to remember better we have to
1. Get a strong impression by paying careful attention.
We must obtain a deep Impression Of the mind of what we wish to remember. The attention must be concentrated on only one thing at a time to the exclusion of everything else.
If you want to concentrate on something, you must feel that It matters to you. You must be interested in it. It must evoke your enthusiasm. The deeper and more permanent the interest the more sustained the attention.
2. Repeat under conditions in which repetition is effective.
Psychologists have discovered a number of conditions under which repeating what we wish to remember helps us to remember it. Those conditions are
(a) You remember better if you understand what you repeat (better comprehension).
b) You remember better if you study a little but often (spaced learning-have frequent breaks while studying)
Do not study more than half an hour continuously without any break. Give a break for every half an hour. A five minute break is good enough. Actually, we remember better at the beginning and at the end of a learning period. We remember less during the middle of learning period. It shows that if you have four learning of each 30 minutes in approximately in a 2 hours session, then there are 4 beginnings and 4 ends which correspond to high learning and high memory.
In the 5 minute break period, you may get up and walk or you may close your eyes and relax. You must remember two important aspects of break :
(1) you must relax
(ii) you must continue study after about 5 minutes.
Relaxation results in increased blood flow to your brain, and that means you function at higher intelligence.
1. Get a strong impression by paying careful attention.
We must obtain a deep Impression Of the mind of what we wish to remember. The attention must be concentrated on only one thing at a time to the exclusion of everything else.
If you want to concentrate on something, you must feel that It matters to you. You must be interested in it. It must evoke your enthusiasm. The deeper and more permanent the interest the more sustained the attention.
2. Repeat under conditions in which repetition is effective.
Psychologists have discovered a number of conditions under which repeating what we wish to remember helps us to remember it. Those conditions are
(a) You remember better if you understand what you repeat (better comprehension).
b) You remember better if you study a little but often (spaced learning-have frequent breaks while studying)
Do not study more than half an hour continuously without any break. Give a break for every half an hour. A five minute break is good enough. Actually, we remember better at the beginning and at the end of a learning period. We remember less during the middle of learning period. It shows that if you have four learning of each 30 minutes in approximately in a 2 hours session, then there are 4 beginnings and 4 ends which correspond to high learning and high memory.
In the 5 minute break period, you may get up and walk or you may close your eyes and relax. You must remember two important aspects of break :
(1) you must relax
(ii) you must continue study after about 5 minutes.
Relaxation results in increased blood flow to your brain, and that means you function at higher intelligence.
SUCCESS PLAN ::::: EFFECTIVE LEARNING
I. Always make an effort to understand the study material / lessons,
the principles which underlie it.
the principles which underlie it.
II. Instead of reading and rereading, read and then try to recall. The most popular way of doing a thing is not always the best way. For instance, People may expect to remember a piece of material after reading it once - or after reading it and then re-reading it.
Both methods are inadequate, the first because it is an uneconomical use of time. Research has shown that a second reading brings only 7 per cent more comprehension, while a third one adds only another 1 percent. The time spent on rereading is out of proportion to the gain that can be expected from it. A best method for super learning is P-V formula.
This P-V formula is your key to more effective study. Established by experimental research on learning methods.
(i) P stands for Preview : Browse through the study material / lessons to get a general idea of what it is about. Close the book and think about what you have gathered from your preview.
(ii) Q stands for Question : Ask yourself a few questions which you want your reading to answer. Some authors suggest such questions at the beginning of a chapter. If your author doesn’t, think of your own.
(iii) R stands for Read : Read the material and make sure that you understand it. Underline key words and phrases. Think about what you have read. Assess the relative importance of its various features.
(iv) S stands for Summarize : Make notes on what you read (create a Mind Map)
(v) T stands for Test : Test yourself on what you have read by using the information to answer the questions you asked under Q(above)- Answer the questions and problems set by your teacher Or by your text book author. Answer questions set In earlier exam papers. Discuss the subject with your classmates.
(vi) U stands for Use : Try to put material to some practical use In everyday affairs.
(vii) V stands for Visualize : Picture the ideas in your mind’S eye or visualize the actual pages of the textbook Or notebook.
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