Week 6: Lateral Thinking

Lateral Thinking

A way of solving problems by thinking out of the box

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One Example of  Lateral Thinking

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Here are some puzzle for you to solve.......

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How do you connect these 9 dots with 4 straight lines continuously without lifting your pencil from paper?

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How do you trace this design in one continuous line without crossing the line on the way?

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Rearrange 3 balls so that the arrow will point downwards.

Here are the Answers!!!!!!!!

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Class Exercise 

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Imagine a room : the window on the at the back is open. In front of the window there is a table with a vase, in which a fresh rose stands. A painting of flowers hangs on the opposite wall ( at the whiteboard area). A bee flies into the room through the open window, straight to the painting and not the rose.

WHY?!?!?!?!

Here are the 5 logical reasons and 5 nonsensical reasons

5 Logical Reason

1) The painting is more realistic 

2) The paint may have food ingrediant in it

3) Bees like vibrant colours

4) The paint might be painted in honey

5) The flower is dead

5 Nonsensical Reason

1) The bee is dumb

2) That is not even a bee

3) The bee is drunk

4) The bee is blind

5) The bee has no common sense