If you are even seven inches in your forehead, you will not be able to remember everything printed in books, you need to develop lateral thinking.

Today, we offer a test to test how well readers develop creativity and non-standard thinking. It won't be easy to get through. You will have to turn away from the beaten path. And only those ways of solving problems that we used to ignore will be useful.



By the way, this approach has a scientific basis. British psychologist Edward de Bono called it lateral (lateral) thinking. According to Bono, creativity is not a talent, but a skill that can be learned and developed. Supplemented with lateral thinking, it helps to achieve goals, avoiding conventional and conventional methods.

Unconventional thinking

1. What number should the question mark be replaced with?
   
   
   
   (a) 24
   (b) 27
   (c) 56
   (g) 92
   
   
2. “I am ready to reveal my secrets to anyone. But you won't hear a word from her.” Solve the puzzle and choose the option with the number of letters in the desired word.
   4
   (b) 5
   (c) 6
   (g) 8
3. What do these images have in common? What letter does the answer end with?
   
   
   
   (a) And
   (b) E
   c) And
   d) S
   
   
4. How could it be that half of 12 was 7? The decision is related to...
   (a) division
   (b) figures in a different guise
   (c) subtraction
5. Even the master of the game “What?” could not answer this question. Where? When? Alexander Druz. What number should be at the parking space where the car is located?
   
   
   
   (a) 96
   (b) 94
   (c) 90
   (g) 87
   
   
6. What's the extra figure?
   
   
   
   (a) And
   (b) B.
   c) In
   (g) G
   
   
7. An angle of 1 degree is considered in a magnifying glass, which has an 8-fold magnification. What size angle will be visible in this magnifying glass?
   1 degree
   (b) 2 degrees
   (c) 8 degrees
   (g) 16 degrees
8. What number should stand in the place of the question mark?
   
   
   
   (a) 2
   (b) 3
   (c) 8
   (g) 504
   
   
9. Furniture is eaten at the end of lunch. What answer will end this sequence: snack, soup, salad, second course...
   
   
   
   table
   bread
   menu
   (d) dessert
   
   
10. Find a pattern to replace the question mark with a number.
    Washington - 162
    Chicago - 54
    Richmond - 70
    Boston--

Answers.

1. Finding the last number in each row is not easy. To do this, you need to divide the second and third numbers in the series by 2. And then multiply the first number and the two resulting.
   For example, for the first row it will be
   3 * (8:2) * (6:2) = 36
   Accordingly, for the last row
   9 * (6:2) * (2:2) = 27.
2. The book. 5 letters.
3. What these images have in common is frame. We pick a letter from here. And.
4. Write the number 12 in Roman numerals: XII. Next, draw a line in the middle. The top half will look like a VII.
5. The question, in fact, quite childish, but requires an unusual solution. You need to look at the picture from the other side. Then it becomes clear that the car is in the parking lot with the number 87.
6. B. All the others are the same, only inverted.
7. The inclination of the lines relative to each other will not change with increasing. The angle of one degree will remain that way.
8. All of these words have letters that are used in the Roman numeral system. Okay, word A.VI VI VIATOR can be seen in Roman 6 (VI). It is no longer difficult, you just need to know that D is the Roman 500. IX = 9, I = 1, and DIV = 504.
9. The correct answer would be dessert. But the first part of the question indicates that it is a table.
10. Regularity consists in multiplying the number of vowel letters by the number of consonants and the total number of letters. Boston: 2 vowels, 4 consonants and only 6 letters. From here we get 2 * 4 * 6 = 48..

Our non-standard examples will help you spend time with benefit. After all, ingenuity helps to search for unusual, interesting and simple solutions, achieving results not only in the game, but also in real life in the shortest possible way.