The benefits of capacity seeing yourself through the eyes of others
Three hats are offered to two players – one white and two red.
They close their eyes and are told that each of them will...
Vigilant woman
A woman is sitting in her hotel room when there is a knock at the door. She opened the door to see a man...
King Akbar’s Line
One day the Great Akbar drew a line on the floor and asked his sage Birbal to shorten it without touching and ...
Creative riddles
1. How to pour the syrup inside the chocolate candy?
2. How to light a match with water?
3. A man throw a ball. It goes...
Mystery of the bisected apple
A serial killer invited a prospective victim to her place.
She offered her an apple. When she refused, she insisted that they share the apple.
So,...
Say everything in one sentence
Once upon a time, in the West Lake village, a servant lived with his master. After service of about 30 years, his master became...
Fateful creative solution
One unfortunate merchant owed a large sum of money to a moneylender.
The old, ugly moneylender proposed that he would forget the debt
if...
Egyptian coin. Mindfulness Challenge
An archeologist claims he found a Roman coin dated 46 B.C. in Egypt.
Note: Roman coins can really be found in Egypt
How much should...
Survivorship bias and the flip side of things
During World War II, the Hungarian mathematician Abraham Wald, who worked in the SRG laboratory in New York, considered how to minimize bomber losses...