10 Fun Puzzles To Train Your Lateral Thinking

10 Fun Puzzles To Train Your Lateral Thinking

We all have different types of intelligence, and develop some more than others. Therefore, we all don't solve the same problem in the same way. When we're stuck in something without finding a response time may be the time to do things different.

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Lateral thinking is a way to organize thinking that seeks a solution through unorthodox strategies or algorithms, that would normally be ignored. When you have trained lateral thinking, solve certain complex situations that come your way in life can be easier.

To start training ... Try solving these puzzles!

#1

A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water. The bartender reaches under the bar and brings out a gun and aims it at the man. The man says thank you and leaves.

Why did he say thanks?

#1 Solution

The waiter realized that the customer had hiccups, and instead of water, gave him a scare.

#2

A man found dead in a field next to an unopened package. There is no creature nearby, but we know that as he approached, he knew he would die.

What happened to him?

#2 Solution

The package was a parachute that did not open when the man jumped from a plane.

#3

Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there.

What is it?

#3 Solution

It was a snowman that has now melted.

#4

A woman had two children at the same time, the same day of the same year; but did not have twins.

How can that be?

#4 Solution

She had triplets

#5

A man dies and goes to heaven. There are thousands of people he cannot recognize, but sees a man and a woman, and although he is an atheist, knows that they are Adam and Eve.

How did he recognize them?

#5 Solution

They didn't have belly buttons.

#6

Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don't know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a truck driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman.

How do they know they've got their man?

#6 Solution

The fireman is the only man in the room. The rest of the poker players are women.

#7

You're driving down the road in your car on a wild and stormy night. The weather is like a hurricane, with heavy rains, high winds, and lightning flashing constantly. While driving, you come across a partially-covered bus stop, and you can see three people waiting for a bus:

An old woman who looks as if she is about to die.

An old friend who once saved your life.

The perfect partner you have been dreaming about (your "soulmate").

Knowing that you only have room for one passenger in your car, which one would you choose to offer a ride to? And why?

#7 Solution

Give the car keys to your old friend, and let him take the old woman to the hospital. Then stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of your dreams.

#8 Solution

How can someone jump out the window of a 20-floor building and survive?

#8 Solution

He jumped from the first floor

#9 Solution

There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs.

How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

#9 Solution

The last person took the basket with the last egg still inside.

#10

A man sees a large number of 50 digits written on paper, and says he can rewrite it by memory without consulting the original once.

How could he memorize it so fast?

#10 Solution

It a number with the same digit repeated.