Recently I came across this site through Digg, having the title “Very Difficult Analytical Puzzles.” I found a little more than that at the actual site. There’s a collection of logic puzzles ranging from “Very Easy” to “Very Difficult” and there was also a collection of lateral thinking problems.
We’re all familiar with lateral thinking problems which describe a mysterious situation and require a few key details from the solver in order to explain everything. When playing with friends, you get to ask yes or no questions from the person posing the problem. Most of the lateral thinking prooblems on this site were familiar to me, but what interested me most is the categories he came up with for lateral thinking problems.
- Preconceptions - Problems that challenge your preconceptions.
- Fact - Problems that arebased on fact.
- Fanciful - Problems that require a little imagination to solve.
- Semantics - Problems that require you to pay close attention to the wording of the problem.
As I think about it, these categories may be useful for classifying riddles in general.
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