Setting Some Time to Train the Mind
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This document contains a collection of puzzles and brain teasers intended to exercise the mind. It includes 10 "Mystery Object" puzzles where the reader must identify partial images, 6 hidden word puzzles, 3 deductive reasoning puzzles involving criminal cases, and 10 tricky puzzles testing logic and problem solving skills. The answers are provided on subsequent slides. The goal is to engage the reader in mentally stimulating activities and have fun challenging their mind.
Setting Some Time to Train the Mind
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- 2. 2 Exercise you brain and mind to keep it healthy! There are various types of puzzles presented. The answers are at the slide following each puzzle. For the Puzzles on ‘Mystery Objects’ 1 – 10, each of the photo images is a close-up shot of a part of the object. Use your right brain to figure out what the object is. After giving it a try, check your answer at the next slide. Have great fun spending time to exercise your mind!
- 6. 6 ANSWER Tricky Puzzle 2 It’s in a game of Monopoly
- 12. 12 ANSWER Tricky Puzzle 5 Your Surname!
- 14. 14 Answer to Trick Puzzle 6 Nine Numbers!
- 15. 15 Tricky Puzzle 7 Five pieces of coal, a carrot, and a hat are lying on the lawn of a garden. Nobody put them there, but there is a perfectly logical reason why they are there. What is it?
- 16. 16 Tricky Puzzle 7 Five pieces of coal, a carrot, and a hat are lying on the lawn of a garden. Nobody put them there, but there is a perfectly logical reason why they are there. What is it? ANSWER They were parts of a snowman that melted.
- 19. 19 Tricky Puzzle 9 Five men are walking. It starts to rain. Four of them pick up the pace. The fifth man makes no effort to escape the rain and stays dry. The other four, on the contrary, get wet anyway. The five arrive at their destination together. How could this be? Hint: Not all of them went there by foot.
- 20. 20 ANSWER Tricky Puzzle 9 Five men are walking. It starts to rain. Four of them pick up the pace. The fifth man makes no effort to escape the rain and stays dry. The other four, on the contrary, get wet anyway. The five arrive at their destination together. How could this be? Hint: Not all of them went there by foot. Four men were pallbearers, and the fifth one was in the coffin.
- 22. 22 Tricky Puzzle 10 ANSWER 11 Squares
- 23. 23 Deductive Puzzle 1 Thief at sea A Japanese ship was leaving the port and on its way to open sea. The captain went to go oil some parts of the ship and took his ring off so it wouldn’t get damaged. He left it on the table next to his bunk. When he returned, it was missing. He had suspected three crew members could be guilty and asked them what they had been doing for the ten minutes that he had been gone. The cook said, “I was in the kitchen preparing tonight’s dinner.” The engineer said, “I was working in the engine room making sure everything was running smoothly.” The seaman said, “I was on the mast correcting the flag because someone had attached it upside down by mistake.” The captain immediately knew who it was. How?
- 24. 24 Deductive Puzzle 1 Thief at sea A Japanese ship was leaving the port and on its way to open sea. The captain went to go oil some parts of the ship and took his ring off so it wouldn’t get damaged. He left it on the table next to his bunk. When he returned, it was missing. He had suspected three crew members could be guilty and asked them what they had been doing for the ten minutes that he had been gone. The cook said, “I was in the kitchen preparing tonight’s dinner.” The engineer said, “I was working in the engine room making sure everything was running smoothly.” The seaman said, “I was on the mast correcting the flag because someone had attached it upside down by mistake.” The captain immediately knew who it was. How? ANSWER It was clearly the seaman. It was a Japanese ship and a Japanese flag is white with a single red dot in the middle. It can’t be hung upside down.
- 25. 25 Guilty in court A woman was in court for killing her husband. She said she wasn’t guilty and that she dearly missed him. In the closing statement, the woman’s lawyer stands up and says, “Her husband was just missing. Everyone look at the doors. He’s going to walk through them in about 30 seconds.” The entire jury stares at the doors waiting for waiting for this woman’s husband to walk through the doors. The lawyer and the woman stare at the jury. The lawyer concludes by saying, “See! If you were so sure she killed her husband, you wouldn’t be watching that door!” The jury immediately gave a guilty verdict. Why? Deductive Puzzle 2
- 26. 26 Guilty in court A woman was in court for killing her husband. She said she wasn’t guilty and that she dearly missed him. In the closing statement, the woman’s lawyer stands up and says, “Her husband was just missing. Everyone look at the doors. He’s going to walk through them in about 30 seconds.” The entire jury stares at the doors waiting for waiting for this woman’s husband to walk through the doors. The lawyer and the woman stare at the jury. The lawyer concludes by saying, “See! If you were so sure she killed her husband, you wouldn’t be watching that door!” The jury immediately gave a guilty verdict. Why? Deductive Puzzle 2 ANSWER The woman was watching the jury and not the doors because she knew that her husband wouldn’t walk through them because she had killed him. If she has really missed him like she said, she would have been watching the doors.
- 27. 27 Deductive Puzzle 3 A rich man that lived in a beautiful house on Baker Street, Mr. Ronald Green, has just been kidnapped and Sherlock Holmes has been appointed to the case. He finds a note at the crime scene written by Mr. Green. It read: “First of January, Fourth of October, Fifth of March, Third of June.” Sherlock knew that somehow, the killer’s name was hidden in the note. The suspects were as follows: Jack Green, the son and the heir of the property John Jacobson, an employee of Mr. Green June Green, Green’s wife Who was the Killer?
- 28. 28 The kidnapper was John Jacobson. Take these details into account: First of January means the first letter of the word January: J. Fourth of October means the fourth letter of the word October: O. The fifth of March means the fifth letter of the word March: H. Third of June means the third letter of the word June: N. The name spelled out is John.
- 29. 29 Can you find 6 Hidden Words? The Words 1 COW 2 ORANGE 3 WOW 4 LAUGH 5 IOWA 6 GUITAR
- 30. 30 Can you find 6 Hidden Words? ANSWERS 1 COW 2 ORANGE 3 WOW 4 LAUGH 5 IOWA 6 GUITAR
- 32. 32 Mystery Object 1 ANSWER A Compass
- 34. 34 Mystery Object 2 ANSWER A Marble
- 36. 36 Mystery Object 3 ANSWER Coconut
- 46. 46 Mystery Object 8 ANSWER Pencil
- 48. 48 Mystery Object 9 ANSWER Button
- 50. 50 Mystery Object 10 ANSWER SeatbeltPopcorn
- 51. 51 May your mind be most creative, calm and clear. May you face mental challenges without fear. With Metta, Bro. Oh Teik Bin The End