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Waterfall Flows Up

Here’s a waterfall which defies gravity! Watch and be amazed!

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Geometry Puzzles

Here are some geometry puzzles you can try out.

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Can You Figure Out Einstein’s Riddles?

We know Einstein as Einstein but do you know how to outsmart these riddles?

Have a go! Remember finding the solution on your own is the greatest pleasure! ;-)

What Colour is The Bear? And I Don’t Mean Lotso From Toy Story 3.

The famous physicist allegedly made this riddle for his scholars.

A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away. Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly the fellow stopped, aimed his gun to the south and shot the bear. What color was the bear?

If you don’t know, this may help you: if the bear ran about 3.14 times faster than the fellow (still westwards), the fellow could have shot straight in front of him, however for the booty he would have to go to the south.

Which Neighbour Owns The Fish?

It is said that this quiz was made up by Albert Einstein and according to him 98% will not solve it.

There is a row of five different color houses. Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. Each man has a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes different brand of cigarettes.

  1. The Brit lives in the Red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is next to the White house, on the left.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Who has fish at home? Are you one of the 2%?

Which Ship Goes Where and Carries What?

There are 5 ships in a port.

  1. The Greek ship leaves at six and carries coffee.
  2. The ship in the middle has a black chimney.
  3. The English ship leaves at nine.
  4. The French ship with a blue chimney is to the left of a ship that carries coffee.
  5. To the right of the ship carrying cocoa is a ship going to Marseille.
  6. The Brazilian ship is heading for Manila.
  7. Next to the ship carrying rice is a ship with a green chimney.
  8. A ship going to Genoa leaves at five.
  9. The Spanish ship leaves at seven and is to the right of the ship going to Marseille.
  10. The ship with a red chimney goes to Hamburg.
  11. Next to the ship leaving at seven is a ship with a white chimney.
  12. The ship on the border carries corn.
  13. The ship with a black chimney leaves at eight.
  14. The ship carrying corn is anchored next to the ship carrying rice.
  15. The ship to Hamburg leaves at six.

Which ship goes to Port Said? Which ship carries tea?

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Top 10 Brain Games

More stuff to fascinate your brains over at the top 10 brain games.
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Greatest Optical Illusions of All Time

Can you see what’s inside these pictures? Look again!

It may not be what you think it is!

Check out the greatest optical illusions of all time.

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Games for Your Brain

Here are more games to exercise your brain!

http://playwithyourmind.com

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com

http://www.sharpbrains.com/teasers

http://www.queendom.com/tests/testscontrol.htm?t=3

http://www.braingle.com

http://www.pizmogames.com

http://www.brainmetrix.com

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Games for your brain

Here is a link to a website where you can play (lots of) games which help you with concentration, focus and flexibility.

http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games

Addictive and fun!  Have a try!

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Treasure Hunts: How to decode questions

Two skills are needed:

1) to solve the clue in the question
2) ability to spot the answer

Steps:

1) Look for the KEYWORD in question.
2) Interpret the question with respect to the keyword.
3) List possible answers.
4) Look for the ACTUAL answer.

Examples:

Q1 Sex has the antidote to strain.

Step 1: keyword: has ( “has” as in “possesses” )
Step 2: antidote = cure
Step 2: strain = press
Step 3: Look for answers with X in them.
Step 4: answer is SECUREXPRESS ( SE CURE X PRESS )

Q2 H2O@1°C

Step 1: keyword: no key word
Step 2: H2O is water and water at 0°C is ICE
Step 2: So at 1°C it’s not ice yet.
Step 3: Look for answers with ICE in them.
Step 4: answer is NOTICE ( not ice )

Q3 Final placing of current master

Step 1: keyword: final ( “final” as in “end” )
Step 2: current = I (symbol of current in
Step 2: place I at the end of answer and the meaning will be MASTER
Step 3: Look for answers that fit
Step 4: answer is SENSE ( SENSEI = MASTER )

The KEYWORD plays a crucial part in decoding the question. Some of the more popular keywords involve homonyms (similar sounding words), anagrams, word-within-word, additions, subtractions, reversals and initials.

INTERPRETATIONS involve equivalent words as well as general knowledge and their manipulation.

Finally, check out POSSIBLE ANSWERS by OBSERVATION of the sector and VERIFYING whether the answer fits the question perfectly.

Typical general knowledge would be newsworthy items, history, geography, arts & sciences, abbreviations, acronyms, popular phrases and trivia.

Try out the questions at automobile hunt.

Try out the questions at bank hunt.

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Automobile Hunt

All answers are from the pictures shown below. These questions have appeared before in previous Eye-Q hunts and Coyote hunts.

  1. It makes a vow.
  2. Our generation began here, back when it welcomed descendent of…
  3. …Rameses I and the Greek Khufu, who together created it.
  4. I take it in turns.
  5. What digitally comes next after turning could be there.
  6. It had no cause to be different.
  7. Hi! You and I are spoken of with kindness here.
  8. Unknowns follow them downwards.
  9. Sang your first song outside.
  10. It’s made up of two up and one down fundamental building blocks.

( yes, 10 questions for 9 answers ; one is repeated )

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Bank Hunt

All answers are from the pictures shown below. These questions have appeared before in previous Eye- Q hunts and Coyote hunts.

  1. Granted, it follows the classic DNA structure.
  2. Obtain copies of it posing by Number Ten.
  3. Nothing before it initially will give a year that never was!
  4. A trading establishment gone blank somehow.
  5. A proxy for the first bank giving money back!
  6. No speech without hat raised.
  7. Man wearing a title, knight primarily.

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