Time To Mind The Mind With A Treasure Mine

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Sample Puzzles and Problems from ‘The Thing Is To Think’

Cracking a Rhyming Riddle

My name is short
but I live very long.
You call my name
in a nursery song.
I’m still around
when generations have gone.

What Am I?
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 What’s The Punch Line For The Joke?

The teacher asked

Dickey, “Can you give
the names of 3 great
Kings who have
brought much
happiness and
meaning into so many
people’s lives?”
Dickey replied,
..

See next slide for a suggested punch line

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 (Punch Line)
Wor-king, Smo-king
and Drin-king.”

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 Solving A Deductive Thinking Puzzle

Dr. Crookie has invented a ‘magic’ potion

that can make all his natural body
invisible when he strips naked. People in
the neighborhood are worried that Dr.
Crookie can spy on them
without being seen.
Before long Smart Stevie rushes to the
home of his lady friend Miss Goodie. She
tells Smart Stevie that she feels that Dr.
Crookie is now at her home spying on
her and she cannot seen him.
Smart Stevie walks around observing the Dr.
surroundings carefully. He is soon able Crookie
to locate the ‘invisible’ Dr. Crookie and
thereby nabs him.
How does Smart Stevie do it?
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 Solving Creative Rebus Puzzles
Finding the Hidden Meaning in the Word Picture
Answer:
An Example:
Crossroads

Can you solve the Rebus Puzzles below?

Puzzle 52 Puzzle 61 Puzzle 79 6

 Analyzing IQ Items

Can you solve the following IQ Questions?

# 12 # 22 # 25

Complete the Fill in the Fill in the

Diagram above by blank space blank space
filling in the balance in the with the
space. Diagram correct
above. letters.
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 Solving a lateral thinking problem

38 Freddie, a young man

walked into a supermarket.
He went to one of the
shelves, took a jar of food
off it and then walked to the
checkout counter. He
offered to pay for the bottle
of food item. He had not
concealed anything. The
cashier discreetly signaled a
security guard who arrested
Freddie. Why?
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 Solving Scrambled Sayings
An Example
Unscramble each word and then the whole sentence:
iodwsm | of | cieatenp | is | teh | ocmanpino
Saint Augustine

Answer : Patience is the Companion of Wisdom

Can you solve the following scrambled quotes?

1 tsaset | eunfrreron | lal | mdin | fo | hte | si

Buddha

10 eorm | hnta | tmitranpo | kowndleeg |

tioaniamgni | is
Albert Einstein
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 Solving Matchstick Puzzles
Can you solve the following Matchstick Puzzle?
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The above layout shows a distance of 100 metres.

Move 2 matchsticks to convert it
to the smallest possible distance.

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 Solving Scientific Teasers
Can you solve the following science problem ?

14 Cork in a glass
Put a piece of cork into a glass of
water. It is most likely to drift
to the side of the glass.
How can you get the cork to float on
the center of the glass (the horizontal
center, not the vertical )?
You are provided with a glass, a
piece of cork and water – that’s all!

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Drawing and Figuring Out

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 Get lots of
fun mental
exercise.
This is good
for you,
wise ones advise!

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 ‘THE THING IS TO THINK’
is truly a useful THING!
May the Book help to train
your mind to clearly THINK!

With Regards, With Regards,

Oh Teik Bin Steven Lee

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