A Presentation of a selection of puzzles, brain teasers and thinking problems to exercise the brain and mind. Answers are given for all the puzzles and problems. For all young and old alike.

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Visual eye test 1
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FOCUS

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Visual eye test 1
Answer
WHAT YOU GET BY ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS IS NOT
AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT YOU BECOME BY ACHIEVING
YOUR GOALS.
RELAX!
FOCUS

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Visual eye test 2
RELAX!
FOCUS
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Visual eye test 2
RELAX!
FOCUS
Answer YOU CAN'T CROSS THE SEA MERELY BY
STANDING AND STARING AT THE WATER.

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Visual eye test 2
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Next
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for
the
Answer
Visual eye test 3

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Answer
Visual eye test 3
When you are close to the
screen you will see:
Close
If you move slightly away you
will see:
Further
If you move back farther you
will see:
Far Away

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Creative Rebus Puzzles 1
Rebus Puzzles. These are popular word picture puzzles with
hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram or saying.
Below are two examples:
The Answer is ‘BREAKFAST
( ‘All the letters F, A, S, T are broken!’ )
The Answer is ‘CROSSROADS’
( 2 ‘ROADS' )
Solve the Rebus Puzzles # 1 - #4 Below
# 1 # 2 # 3 # 4
See Next Slide for the Answers
For each of the puzzles, you can make 3 guesses. After
you have written down all your 12 guesses, then you
can check your answers at the next Slide.

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Creative Rebus Puzzles 1
Rebus Puzzles. These are popular word picture puzzles with
hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram or saying.
Below are two examples:
The Answer is ‘BREAKFAST
( ‘All the letters F, A, S, T are broken!’ )
The Answer is ‘CROSSROADS’
( 2 ‘ROADS' )
Solve the Rebus Puzzles # 1 - #4 Below
# 1 # 2 # 3 # 4
Answers
For once in
my life
Overseas
Travel
Green with
envy
Win with
ease

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Creative Rebus Puzzles 2
Rebus Puzzles. These are popular word picture puzzles with
hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram or saying.
Below are two examples:
The Answer is ‘BREAKFAST
( ‘All the letters F, A, S, T are broken!’ )
The Answer is ‘CROSSROADS’
( 2 ‘ROADS' )
Solve the Rebus Puzzles # 5 - #8 Below
# 5 # 6 # 7 # 8
For each of the puzzles, you can make 3 guesses. After
you have written down all your 12 guesses, then you
can check your answers at the next Slide.
See Next Slide for the Answers

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Creative Rebus Puzzles 2
Rebus Puzzles. These are popular word picture puzzles with
hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram or saying.
Below are two examples:
The Answer is ‘BREAKFAST
( ‘All the letters F, A, S, T are broken!’ )
The Answer is ‘CROSSROADS’
( 2 ‘ROADS' )
Solve the Rebus Puzzles # 5 - #8 Below
# 5 # 6 # 7 # 8
Answers
Split
level
Try to
understand Metaphor
Safety in
numbers

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Creative Rebus Puzzles 3
Rebus Puzzles. These are popular word picture puzzles with
hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram or saying.
Below are two examples:
The Answer is ‘BREAKFAST
( ‘All the letters F, A, S, T are broken!’ )
The Answer is ‘CROSSROADS’
( 2 ‘ROADS' )
Solve the Rebus Puzzles # 1 - #4 Below
# 9 # 10 # 11 # 12
See Next Slide for the Answers
For each of the puzzles, you can make 3 guesses. After
you have written down all your 12 guesses, then you
can check your answers at the next Slide.

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Creative Rebus Puzzles 3
Rebus Puzzles. These are popular word picture puzzles with
hidden meanings to solve from the pictogram or saying.
Below are two examples:
The Answer is ‘BREAKFAST
( ‘All the letters F, A, S, T are broken!’ )
The Answer is ‘CROSSROADS’
( 2 ‘ROADS' )
Solve the Rebus Puzzles # 1 - #4 Below
# 9 # 10 # 11 # 12
Answers
Head for
cover
Go up in
smoke
Sitting on top
of the world
Up for grabs

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle 1
A woman lives on the 30th floor and hates taking the
stairs. Every day she takes the elevator down to the
lobby floor to go to work. When she comes home from
work, she takes the elevator to the 20th floor and walks
the rest of the way up, except on days when it rains.
Those days she takes the elevator all the way home.
Why does she walk the last ten flights of stairs if she
hates it so much?
Clue
See Next Slide for the Answer

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle 1
A woman lives on the 30th floor and hates taking the
stairs. Every day she takes the elevator down to the
lobby floor to go to work. When she comes home from
work, she takes the elevator to the 20th floor and walks
the rest of the way up, except on days when it rains.
Those days she takes the elevator all the way home.
Why does she walk the last ten flights of stairs if she
hates it so much?
Clue
Answer
The woman is too petite to reach
the button for the 30th floor. She
can only reach the 20th floor
button. On days when it rains, she
uses her umbrella to hit the button
for the 30th floor.

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle 2
Clue
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A woman opened a door, screamed, and then
was found dead a few minutes later. No
gunshots were heard in the area. What
happened to her?

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle 2
Clue
Answer
A woman opened a door, screamed, and then
was found dead a few minutes later. No
gunshots were heard in the area. What
happened to her?
She was on an
airplane and opened
the door while the
plane was in flight,
falling to her death.

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle 3
Clue
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After a night of partying with her friends, a woman
arrives home and finds that she cannot enter the
house. She’s sure that she’s at the right home, but
she cannot get inside. What happened that makes
entering her home impossible?

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Lateral Thinking Puzzle 3
Clue
Answer
After a night of partying with her friends, a woman
arrives home and finds that she cannot enter the
house. She’s sure that she’s at the right home, but
she cannot get inside. What happened that makes
entering her home impossible?
Her friends took her keys
away from her the night
before because she had too
much to drink. They called
her a cab to get home and
kept her keys, which meant
she didn’t have
her house key.

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‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles
For each of the ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles, deduce the word that has
a connection or bearing with all the pics.
An Example ( A 6-Letter Word)
POWDER
Now try the following : ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles # 1 - # 3 ( Make 3 guesses
for each before looking at the answers.) ( 6-Letter Words )
See
Next
Slide
for
the
Answers
after
writing
down
all
your
9
guesses
# 1 # 2 # 3

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‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles
For each of the ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles, deduce the word that has
a connection or bearing with all the pics.
An Example ( A 6-Letter Word)
POWDER
Now try the following : ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles # 1 - # 3 ( Make 3 guesses
for each before looking at the answers.) ( 6-Letter Words )
# 1 Breeze # 2 Cotton # 3 Spring
Answers

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‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles 7-Letter Words
For each of the ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles, deduce the word that has a
connection or bearing with all the pics. (3 Guesses for each pic before next Slide.)
See
Next
Slide
for
the
Answers
after
writing
down
all
your
12
guesses
# 1 # 2
# 3 # 4

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‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles 7-Letter Words
For each of the ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles, deduce the word that has a
connection or bearing with all the pics. (3 Guesses for each pic before next Slide.)
# 1 # 2
# 3 # 4
Answers
Picture
Enclose
Invader
Conceal

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‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles 8-Letter Words
For each of the ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles, deduce the word that has a
connection or bearing with all the pics. (3 Guesses for each pic before next Slide.)
# 1 # 2
# 3 # 4
See
Next
Slide
for
the
Answers
after
writing
down
all
your
12
guesses

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‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles 8-Letter Words
For each of the ‘4 Pics 1 Word’ Puzzles, deduce the word that has a
connection or bearing with all the pics. (3 Guesses for each pic before next Slide.)
# 1 # 2
# 3 # 4
Answers
Medicine
Building
Collapse
Elements

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Deductive Thinking 1
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Clue

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Deductive Thinking 1
Answer
Clue

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DeductiveThinking 2
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Clue

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DeductiveThinking 2
Answer
Clue

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Deductive Thinking 3
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Clue

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Deductive Thinking 3
Answer
Clue

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Math Puzzle 1
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Math
Puzzle
1
Answer

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Math Puzzle 2
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Math Puzzle 2
Answer 12 Squares
and 24 Triangles

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Math
Puzzle
3
The
Spidoku
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Next
Slide
for
the
Answer

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Math
Puzzle
3
The
Spidoku
Answer

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LIFE Lessons from SMS Humor
Each of the SMS Jokes is followed by a LIFE Lesson at the end. The LIFE Lesson
has been scrambled in both letters and words. Your task is to unscramble the
letters and then the words to reveal the LIFE Lesson. An Example is given below.
LIFE Lesson | dlfnmiu | adn | asoaoiscnet | ndki | eb |
Unscrambling the words: mindful and compassionate kind be
Rearranging the words, get the LIFE Lesson:
be mindful, kind and compassionate
SMS JOKE 1
A teenage boy once went to a strip club. When his mother found out she
was furious and asked her son, “Did u see anything there that u were not
supposed to see?
“Yes, I saw dad!” the son replied.
LIFE Lesson eosdml | pu | eb | ni | well | muts | ptrsean | cridhnel | lore | dgoo |
gniibngr
See Next Slide for the Answer and SMS JOKE 2

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LIFE Lessons from SMS Humor
SMS JOKE 1
A teenage boy once went to a strip club. When his mother found out she
was furious and asked her son, “Did u see anything there that u were not
supposed to see?
“Yes, I saw dad!” the son replied.
LIFE Lesson eosdml | pu | eb | ni | well | muts | ptrsean | cridhnel | lore | dgoo |
gniibngr
SMS JOKE 2
in bringing up children well parents must be good role models
Answer
Tom sent this SMS message to one of de girls in his class:
“U r de 1 I wan to take out 4 dinner. I wan 2 let u sit beside the candle light,
give u roses and whisper these three magical words in ur ear: ‘PAY DE BILL.’
LIFE Lesson usde | trisan | uaesc | drwos | lnflsiluku | acn | a | ni | rhopliatsine
See Next Slide for the Answer and SMS JOKE 3

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LIFE Lessons from SMS Humor
SMS JOKE 2
Tom sent this SMS message to one of de girls in his class:
“U r de 1 I wan to take out 4 dinner. I wan 2 let u sit beside the candle light,
give u roses and whisper these three magical words in ur ear: ‘PAY DE BILL.’
LIFE Lesson usde | trisan | uaesc | drwos | lnflsiluku | acn | a | ni | rhopliatsine
See Next Slide for the Answer and SMS JOKE 4
Answer unskillful words used can cause a strain in relationship
SMS JOKE 3
Teacher : Tommy, why r u late 4 school?
Tommy : On my way to school, I came upon a lady who
lost a one hundred dollar note.
Teacher : Oh I suppose u were helping her look for it?
Tommy : No Teacher, I was standing on it.
LIFE Lesson dan | dyota | regtiiytn | hrad | fnid | ietvrsu | nfulhelspes | ot | chsu |
sa | era | nsyhoet

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SMS JOKE 4
SMS JOKE 3
Teacher : Tommy, why r u late 4 school?
Tommy : On my way to school, I came upon a lady who
lost a one hundred dollar note.
Teacher : Oh I suppose u were helping her look for it?
Tommy : No Teacher, I was standing on it.
LIFE Lesson dan | dyota | regtiiytn | hrad | fnid | ietvrsu | nfulhelspes | ot | chsu |
sa | era | nsyhoet
Answer virtues such as honesty integrity and helpfulness are hard to
find today
A pregnant woman went to consult a fortune teller. The fortune teller told her,
“I am sorry to tell u this my dear friend. When ur baby is born, the baby’s
father will die.”
The woman heaved a sigh of relief as she muttered softly, “Thank God! My
husband will be safe.”
LIFE Lesson eqecouesnncs | bngir | launifp | tobau | and | si | lliw | deyulrat |
ammolir
See Next Slide for the Answer

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LIFE Lessons from SMS Humor
SMS JOKE 4
A pregnant woman went to consult a fortune teller. The fortune teller told her,
“I am sorry to tell u this my dear friend. When ur baby is born, the baby’s
father will die.”
The woman heaved a sigh of relief as she muttered softly, “Thank God! My
husband will be safe.”
LIFE Lesson eqecouesnncs | bngir | launifp | tobau | adn | si | lliw | deyulrat |
ammolir
Answer
adultery is immoral and will bring about painful consequences
I hope the 4 Humor Pieces and Unscrambling tasks have
1 brought you some cheer and benefit.
2 given you a mental workout!
3 imparted some LIFE Lessons.

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Matchstick Puzzle 1
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Based on the
Diagram shown,
Move 3 matches to
get 3 perfect
squares

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Matchstick Puzzle 1
Answer
Based on the Diagram
shown,
Move 3 matches to get 3
perfect squares

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Matchstick Puzzle 2
Based on the
Diagram shown,
Move 3 matches
to make 4
equilateral
triangles, no
overlapping
See Next Slide for the Answer

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Matchstick Puzzle 2
Based on the Diagram
shown,
Move 3 matches to make
4 equilateral triangles, no
overlapping
Answer

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Matchstick Puzzle 3
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Based on the
Diagram shown,
Make these 3
matches into 6, no
breaking into pieces

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Matchstick Puzzle 3
Answer
Based on the
Diagram shown,
Make these 3
matches into 6, no
breaking into pieces

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Picture Puzzle
Can you
find 6
Hidden
Words in
the
Picture in
less than
3
minutes?
See Next Slide if you need to know what
the 6 Hidden Words are

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Picture Puzzle
The 6
Hidden
Words are:
FRIENDS
BALLOON
CAKE
GAMES
PARTY
GIFT
See Next Slide for the Answers

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Picture Puzzle
The 6
Hidden
Words are:
FRIENDS
BALLOON
CAKE
GAMES
PARTY
GIFT
The
Answers

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riddle 1
Clue
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riddle 1
Clue
Answer A Coin

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riddle 2
Clue
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riddle 2
Clue
Answer A Dictionary

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Riddle 3
Clue
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Riddle 3
Clue
Answer
A Cold

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Observation power
See Next Slide for the total number of animals
and their names.
Do you know their names?

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Observation power
Total 8 Animals. The Animals are :
Giraffe, Lion, Camel, Elephant, Hog, Horse, Bear, Hound
Do you know their names?

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Picture Puzzle
Can you spot
the hidden
chick among
the daffodils in
less than 2
minutes?
See Next Slide for the Answer

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Picture Puzzle
Can you spot the
hidden chick
among the
daffodils in less
than 2 minutes?
Answer

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Mental and Visual Skills 1
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There are seven differences between these two pictures.
Can you spot them within 3 minutes?

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Mental and Visual Skills 1
Answers
There are seven differences between these two pictures.
Can you spot them within 3 minutes?

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Mental and Visual Skills 2
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There are eight differences between these two pictures. Spot the differences
between the 2 pictures in 3 minutes. Are your eyes good enough to see them all?

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Mental and Visual Skills 2
Answers
There are eight differences between these two pictures. Spot the differences
between the 2 pictures in 3 minutes. Are your eyes good enough to see them all?

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With Metta,
Bro Oh Teik Bin
Keep on practicing solving
puzzles diligently.
Before long, your thinking
skills will improve certainly.