Many adults complain that when solving problems from a textbook for children or guessing puzzles, riddles, charades, their knowledge does not help them at all. Whether an adult is even a super-educated person with a scientific degree - all the solid baggage of knowledge and experience when confronted with children's riddles disappears without a trace, and it becomes completely unclear how to solve them.
Paradoxically? In fact, everything is simple: children perceive the world around them absolutely differently from adults. They look at a completely different angle on how to solve the problem that confronted them. Children do not look for special schemes, patterns, they are not strong in complex calculations, they are unfamiliar with many laws, theorems and axioms. Maybe that’s why they click like nuts the riddles over which adults often sit for an hour.
We bring to your attention 20 puzzles that are easily solved by children, but which not every adult can master.
My brain seems to melt right now. Interestingly, will you cope with all the riddles?
- What can be found once in a minute, twice in a moment and not once in a thousand years?
- Which wheel does not spin in a right turn?
- This is not a living thing, but he has 5 fingers.
- Which word begins with the three letters “G” and ends with the three letters “I”?
- What word is spelled incorrectly in the dictionary?
- The truck was driving to the village. On the way, he met 4 cars. How many cars went to the village?
- We injure without moving, we poison without touching. We can bring both lies and truth, we are never judged by size. Who are we?
- Which hand is better to stir the tea?
- Feed me, and I will live, but give me drink - I will die. Who am I?
- Who walks sitting?
- They are born - they fly, they live - they lie, they die - they float away.
- What gets wet while it dries?
- The more you take from it, the more it becomes ... What is it?
- I am always somewhere between heaven and earth, always at a distance. If you try to sneak up on me - I will retire.
- There was a husband and wife, brother and sister, brother-in-law and brother-in-law. How many everyone?
- I live only where there is light, but as soon as it shines directly on me, I die.
- What can travel the world, staying in the same corner?
- Which elephant does not have a trunk?
- In the evening they give me a task the next morning. I always carry it out, but they still scold me. Who am I?
- What always increases and never decreases?
1. The letter "M"
2. Spare
3. Glove
4. Trigonometry
5. Wrong
6. One
7. Words
8. Best by spoon
9. Fire
10. The chess player
11. Snowflakes
12. Towel
13. The pit
14. The horizon
15. Three
16. Shadow
17. Postage stamp
18. At chess
19. Alarm clock
20. Age of man
Try an experiment: try to solve each of these puzzles, and then offer them to your child. We are willing to bet that your son or daughter will spend much less time on them than yours, and the decisions will be correct. And the thing is in childish immediacy. At such moments, you understand how we all lack it: if we were able to save it, we could more easily relate to the problems and easily find a non-standard solution to any of them.
Share these puzzles with all your friends. Let them then tell about their impressions and successes!