Brain Busters That Will Make You Do A Double-Take

In the month of August, we challenged our community members to flex their mental muscles with visuals that tricked the eye and words that needed unscrambling. Included in our newsletter, The Weekly, and displayed on elevator signs and lobby screens, people seemed to enjoy the different brain teasers, with over 30 answer submissions in the last four weeks. 

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Whether you need a quick breather from those back-to-back Zoom calls, or want something different than the shocking headlines on your news feed, these fun brain teasers will make you look twice before every guess. Don’t worry, we’ve got the answers listed at the end to gauge if you were right – or wrong! 

Puzzle One: Which two patterns look the same when folded into cubes?

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Puzzle Two: What were the original movie titles?

These titles were translated by a computer to another language, then back to English.

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Puzzle Three: Synonyms - What are the two words?

Unscramble the letters in each bubble to reveal two words that have a similar meaning.

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Puzzle Four: Which square fits the pattern?

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DID YOU KNOW?

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The Loculus of Archimedes is one of the oldest known puzzles to date. Over two millennia ago, the Greek mathematician Archimedes dissected a square into 14 pieces, asking the viewer how many different arrangements are possible. In November of 2003, a mathematician named Bill Cutler used a computer program to enumerate all 536 solutions.


PUZZLE ANSWERS

Puzzle One: 

  • The Answer is  A and D


Puzzle Two: 

  • The Intruder Of The Refuge, Which Is Gone (1981)

    • Raiders of the Lost Ark

  • Upper Rifle (1986)

    • Top Gun

  • Intercept Me, If Them Ability (2002)

    • Catch Me If You Can

Puzzle Three: 

  1. Laughter

  2. Chuckle

Puzzle Four: 

  • The Answer is A

How well did you fare with your guesses? Let us know in the comments below!

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