A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why?
You must use lateral thinking to solve this and all the other mind-bending puzzles in this challenging collection.
What makes lateral thinking puzzles tricky? At first it seems as if thereβs not enough information to work them out, but if you persist youβll come up with the logical answers. Each puzzle starts with an ordinary situation. Then things quickly get tricky. You'll have only a few clues to help you discover whatβs really going on. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, fire up your imagination, think differently, and have fun solving them!
Never have stories so perfectly logical seemed so perfectly bizarre.
These complicated conundrums provide an amazing brain workout. To solve a lateral-thinking problem you have to throw out assumptions, think out of the box, and look at the clues from a new perspective. Itβs all a matter of training the brain to think more creatively. Hereβs an example of one tricky little mystery: A foreign visitor to London wanted to ride up the escalator at the subway station, but did not do so. Why? Could you guess the reason is that he saw a sign saying βDogs must be carriedβ β and he didnβt have a dog! At first, you may think you donβt have all the information needed to arrive at the answers, but persist and youβll find the answers to them all.
