Lateral Thinking Puzzles
For the past few weeks or so i am fascinated by a type of puzzle called lateral puzzles. In my years, i have solved logical puzzles, mathematical puzzles,riddles etc. but have never come across lateral puzzles.
So what are these lateral puzzles??Lateral puzzles are mostly called situation or scenario puzzles that needs some kind of elucidation why a particular set or series of events have occurred. The question to the puzzle itself is sort of incomplete to solve the problem at first sight and hence the puzzle solver should ask several types of yes/no questions about the situation in the puzzle to approach the problem. The best lateral thinking puzzles are intriguing and illogical, but have proper answer to satisfy you. It all started when we were driving to Kansas City with some friends. While driving we got bored and we started playing some sort of games..Then I put in a puzzle(which i didnt know was a lateral puzzle) so that we can spend some time. I could see that it generated an immense interest among my friends and within no time ideas were pouring in and all our minds were occupied with several lines of thoughts. Its really interesting to see how different people think in a different way, given the same problem. No wonder they say two heads are better than one. We almost cracked one of the biggest lateral thinking puzzle and were all satisfied at the end of the day that we atleast have some set of skill level to approach these kinds of problems. Remember that these puzzles expand your mind and at the same time helps you learn some of the interesting facts of life.
I will leave this blog with one of the most common lateral thinking puzzle.
A man comes up to the waiter and asks for a glass of water. The waiter pulled out his gun and pointed it at the man. The man said "Thank You" and walked away. Why is that?
So what are these lateral puzzles??Lateral puzzles are mostly called situation or scenario puzzles that needs some kind of elucidation why a particular set or series of events have occurred. The question to the puzzle itself is sort of incomplete to solve the problem at first sight and hence the puzzle solver should ask several types of yes/no questions about the situation in the puzzle to approach the problem. The best lateral thinking puzzles are intriguing and illogical, but have proper answer to satisfy you. It all started when we were driving to Kansas City with some friends. While driving we got bored and we started playing some sort of games..Then I put in a puzzle(which i didnt know was a lateral puzzle) so that we can spend some time. I could see that it generated an immense interest among my friends and within no time ideas were pouring in and all our minds were occupied with several lines of thoughts. Its really interesting to see how different people think in a different way, given the same problem. No wonder they say two heads are better than one. We almost cracked one of the biggest lateral thinking puzzle and were all satisfied at the end of the day that we atleast have some set of skill level to approach these kinds of problems. Remember that these puzzles expand your mind and at the same time helps you learn some of the interesting facts of life.
I will leave this blog with one of the most common lateral thinking puzzle.
A man comes up to the waiter and asks for a glass of water. The waiter pulled out his gun and pointed it at the man. The man said "Thank You" and walked away. Why is that?
posted by Praveen @ 8:46 AM
1 Comments:
To direct ones questions at various possible sources of data becomes the start of detection and feeding a heavy dose of common sense and prevailing situational data into this process becomes inspiration for the likes of Conan Doyle.
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