Friday, September 16, 2005

Brainteaser: Creativity at Play





Hint: It's a wordsmith's question.
I'll post the answer in the comments after 7pm (US CST).


—me strauss Letting me be

13 comments:

  1. See your way out? Oh, boy, this is a good one. LOL

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  2. Hi Scot,
    I think you'll like the answer. I guarantee you won't forget it.

    smiles,
    Liz.

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  3. AND THE ANSWER IS

    You would look in the mirror

    to see what you saw

    take the saw

    saw the table in half

    two halves make a whole

    so you could climb through

    the hole.

    I first heard that on the Ray Rayner and Garfield Goose show in Chgo. circa early 1960s.

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  4. Now that's thinking "out of the box," pure and simple. It's always good to have something to challenge our sense of perspective. Love the solution. Think I will present it to the kids I work with when I return to work on Monday.

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  5. Oh clever! Like that one.

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  6. It's fun. Isn't it?
    Definitely outside the box on more than one level.

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  7. After trying some kung-fu logic on that one, I decided, aaah heck, I'm just going to stare in the mirror at that strangely familiar person who was looking back at me :)

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  8. Aw Eric,
    Just have fun with it.
    Just have fun.

    smiles,
    Liz

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  9. LOL. Now that I've seen the answer, I remember another puzzle of this nature. It had something to do with a person in the desert, some sand, witches and goodness knows what else. Where did you find that particular one? The desert one may be there too.

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  10. Hi Eric,
    I just remembered this one from hearing it when I was a child.

    I remember almost everything. It's a curse.

    smiles,
    Liz

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  11. Liz:>I remember almost everything. It's a curse.

    Tell me about it! I wanted to take that creativity test again for example, after getting some sleep. But even at 5am, when my creativity is low, my brain soaks up and remembers everything. I can still clearly see all the questions and answers in my head. If I took the test again, I'd be cheating! :)

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  12. Hi Eric,

    Tell you subconscious to be quiet so that you can go back to sleep.

    And I don't think that's cheating. If you remember it, it's yours to use.

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