Some Lateral Thinking Exercises

Exercise for your brain

Try answering the following questions. It shows your lateral thinking abilities with your parallal thinking process. (Also Called as DEMENTIA????)

1. You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

2. If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
(This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.)

3. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000 Now add 10. What is the total?

4. Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

5. There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself ?

You should not take more than a minute to answer these???????????????

The answers to these are

1.If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!

2.If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrongagain. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?

3.Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. 4.Nunu? NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question again

5.Hey if you answered it as expressing by sign you are wrong. He would ask for a pair of sunglasses he is not dumb!

If all you answers were wrong, Sorry please unlearn all those stupid concepts your brain has been stereotyped with and you willnot find solutions to difficult problems

If you had 1 or 2 correct answers, Good Keep It Up try more exercises you are improving

If you had answered at least 3 correctly you are on the right track.... Yes your brain is removing all those mathematical way of thinking that 1+1=2.

If you had answered 4 and above correctly HATS OFF you are a lateral thinker.