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Lateral thinkingMany problems require different

perspective to solve successfully

Edward de Bono



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



• 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



• 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



Popular

ateral

Thinking

Puzzles



There are six eggs in

the basket. Six

people each take oneegg, how can it be

that one egg is left in

the basket?



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



What starts with an“E”, endswith an“E” and usually contains

only one letter?

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ENVELOPE




What belongs to you but other

people use it more than you?




YOUR




In which sports do winners move

backwards and losers move

forward




TUG OF WAR




What common word has 4 vowels,

one after and the other




QUEUE




Can you name three consecutive days

without using the words Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday and Saturday




What has roads but no cars, rivers

but no water and hills but no trees




MAP




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?



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



Remove 2 matchs t icks from this f igure to

make 2 squares remain



Answer:



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.



Answer : It's broad daylight.



Manhole Covers

Why is i t better to have round manhole

covers than square ones?



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



So round cover is better



Make the line smaller without

erasing it

D h li l h h i i



Draw another line larger than the existing

one adjutant to it.

Now the f i rst l ine is smal ler



Two persons are sitting with a table inbetween them but they can not see each

other.

Why?



They are sitting in the opposite direction

and not facing each other



*Wrong*



What belongs to you but

other people use it more

than you?



*Your name*



What happens in the

middle of month, in all ofthe seasons except

summer and happensonly in the night, never

in the day?



*The letter ‘n’*



‘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!’



*Contains no letter ‘E’*



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?



*The third. Lions that haven’teaten in three years are

dead.*



You are running a race.

You overtake the second

person, what position

are you in?



*Second*



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?



*4100*



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 ? ? ?



Answer:

U for Uranus, N for Neptune, and

P for Pluto



. 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?



coffin.



. Day by Day

• Some months have 30 days; others have 31.

How many months have 28 days?



. 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?



Answer:

The two fishermen were talking

about their fleas!



. Guess Who? Puzzle

Which famous person is spelled out above?

(



. Guess Who? Puzzle

Which famous person is spelled out above?

DA VINCI



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