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Lateral thinkingMany problems require different
perspective to solve successfully
Edward de Bono
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Four critical factors associated with
lateral thinking:
1.recognize dominant ideas that polarizethe perception of a problem
2.search for different ways of looking at things
3.relaxation of rigid control of thinking4.use of chance to encourage other ideas
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• When in a situation when yourshoes are not quite clean, putyour sock on your hand and
apply a bit of spit and polish toshoe with sock
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• Prior to the strategic planning process,
it is useful to enable creative
and lateral thinking
• Exercises are for fun, but also help people
expand their disciplinary boundaries
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Popular
ateral
Thinking
Puzzles
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There are six eggs in
the basket. Six
people each take oneegg, how can it be
that one egg is left in
the basket?
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Three of the glasses are filled with cool drink;
the other three are empty. By moving only one
glass, can you arrange them so the full andempty glasses alternate
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What starts with an“E”, endswith an“E” and usually contains
only one letter?
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ENVELOPE
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What belongs to you but other
people use it more than you?
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YOUR
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In which sports do winners move
backwards and losers move
forward
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TUG OF WAR
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What common word has 4 vowels,
one after and the other
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QUEUE
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Can you name three consecutive days
without using the words Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
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What has roads but no cars, rivers
but no water and hills but no trees
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MAP
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The school inspection
• A schoolteacher knew that the school superintendent
would visit the next day.• The superintendent would ask questions such as spellings
or mental arithmetic of the class, and the teacher would
choose a pupil to answer.
• The teacher wanted to give the best impression of theschool.
• What instructions did she give the children, in order to
create the best impression and maximise the chances that
the right answer was given to each question?
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Teacher instru cted the students to
raise hand for every quest ion but
w i th one cond i t ion i .e.
those students who know right
answer w i l l raise their r ight hands
and
those students who do no t know
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Remove 2 matchs t icks from this f igure to
make 2 squares remain
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Answer:
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A black man dressed all in black, wearing a
black mask, stands at a crossroads in a
totally black-painted town. All of thestreetlights in town are broken. There is no
moon. A black-painted car without
headlights drives straight toward him, but
turns in time and doesn't hit him.
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Answer : It's broad daylight.
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Manhole Covers
Why is i t better to have round manhole
covers than square ones?
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Side is smal ler than d iagonal of square
cover.
It means, there is a chance that the cover
may fall ins ide.
S d i b tt
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So round cover is better
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Make the line smaller without
erasing it
D h li l h h i i
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Draw another line larger than the existing
one adjutant to it.
Now the f i rst l ine is smal ler
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Two persons are sitting with a table inbetween them but they can not see each
other.
Why?
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They are sitting in the opposite direction
and not facing each other
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*Wrong*
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What belongs to you but
other people use it more
than you?
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*Your name*
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What happens in the
middle of month, in all ofthe seasons except
summer and happensonly in the night, never
in the day?
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*The letter ‘n’*
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‘This is an unusual paragraph. I
am curious how quickly you will
find out what is so unusual aboutit? It looks so plain you would
think nothing was wrong with it! It
is unusual though. Study it and
think about it, but you still may
not find anything odd. If you work
at it a bit, you might find out!’
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*Contains no letter ‘E’*
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A murderer is condemned to
death. He has to choose
between three rooms. The first isfull of raging fires, the second is
full of assassins with loaded
guns and the third is full of lions
that haven’t eaten in three years.
Which room is safest for him?
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*The third. Lions that haven’teaten in three years are
dead.*
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You are running a race.
You overtake the second
person, what position
are you in?
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*Second*
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Take 1000 and add 40 to
it. Now add another1000. Now add 30. Add
another 1000. Now add20. Now add another
1000. Now add 10. Whatis the total?
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*4100*
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Puzzle
• The Last Three: Each letter below
stands for the name of something.
What should the last three lettersbe?
• M V E M J S ? ? ?
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Answer:
U for Uranus, N for Neptune, and
P for Pluto
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. Another Riddle
• What is it that the man who makes it does not
need; the man who buys it does not use
himself, and the person who uses it does so
without knowing?
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coffin.
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. Day by Day
• Some months have 30 days; others have 31.
How many months have 28 days?
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. The Fishermen’s Riddle
• An old riddle tells the tale of two fishermen
who returned one day and made the following
statement: “The ones we caught we threw
away. The ones we could not catch we kept.”What did they mean?
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Answer:
The two fishermen were talking
about their fleas!
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. Guess Who? Puzzle
Which famous person is spelled out above?
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. Guess Who? Puzzle
Which famous person is spelled out above?
DA VINCI
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