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Our minds can often betray us since they let impulsive thinking draw conclusions that are far from the truth. And sometimes gender stereotypes don’t let us solve relatively easy riddles. This means that one simple riddle can unveil many things about how our brain works and what our misconceptions are.

Scientists say that our brainpower might start to decline as early as in our 20s or 30s. The good news, with more than half of the brain remaining unknown to scientists, it’s already clear that you can keep it strong with the help of riddles. The advantages of it double, as these mind-boggling tasks will also increase your happiness hormone, as soon as you find the right answer.

Once you show children’s puzzles to adults, most of them immediately get a brain freeze. Bright Side invites you to stretch your brain a little and check if you can cope with questions from children’s books.

Most of us know that playing chess, doing crosswords, or solving all kinds of different puzzles is good for our mental health. But we often find ourselves so wrapped up in everyday chores that we often forget to do something good for ourselves.

"You see, but you do not observe," the great literary detective Sherlock Holmes once said. Being observant means watching everything around you (people, situations, events, etc.) and then thinking critically about what you’ve just seen. Observation skills are very important in our everyday lives as they enhance our ability to interact with others and to respond to the world in an appropriate manner.

Good riddles improve our attentiveness and deductive logic. So if your brain doesn’t want to wake up and work properly in the morning, we’d like you to have a look at these tricky brain teasers.

Even though they might look super easy at first glance, these brain teasers might help sharpen our minds. However, the real answer, most of the time, will surprise us and would have been right below our noses. We, at Bright Side, enjoy riddles and we have prepared one of the most challenging, yet entertaining, compilations that you might want to think twice before you answer.

We depend daily on our critical thinking skills. They help us analyze facts and form judgments that can affect our quality of life. In fact, by investigating the problems in these riddles, you might learn how good you are at making decisions.

Some people are so observant that they can easily tell the difference between an owl and a barn owl. And then, there’s the group of people that are so clueless that they couldn’t even distinguish a zebra among cows or a wild boar among pigs. But maybe, just maybe, it all comes down to exercising our deduction skills.

We all like to kill some time by solving difficult puzzles or finding mistakes in pictures. Sometimes it's really not easy to notice the smallest details faster than everyone else. In this article, you'll find interesting illustrations that will definitely challenge your power of observation.

FBI special agent is one of the hardest jobs to get into. According to statistics, less than 5% of the applicants are accepted. Answering a number of questions can show if the candidate has a natural potential to develop creative thinking and logic based reasoning skills. Would you be one of the few who nailed the test?

Brain teasers aren’t only satisfying, but they also have the ability to rewire our brains if practiced often enough. And this probably explains the phrase “use or lose it,” which only proves how our brains need continual workouts. By keeping our minds stimulated, we keep them strong and healthy.

Optical illusions have been a source of fascination for centuries, and now they are being used to reveal hidden aspects of our personalities. This very test has become a popular way to discover our strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we will explore how it works and how it can help you determine if you have commitment issues.

Have you ever wanted to act like Sherlock Holmes? Our lives don’t usually offer us a lot of opportunities to play detective unless we need to find a missing scarf at home or a mug at work that has suddenly disappeared. But it’s definitely tempting to test what our brains are capable of.

There are many different types of riddles out there, but they all have one thing in common, they test your logic and allow you to have some fun along the way. However, to be able to solve these riddles faster you’ll need to use some common sense.

In order to improve focus and concentration, all of us should treat our brain as a muscle and train it with different kinds of exercises every day. And while exercises can sometimes be boring, solving attention tests can be an entertaining way to give your brain a good workout.

According to a scientific study published in 2012, the risk of Alzheimer’s disease is significantly reduced in those who regularly engage in mind-stimulating activities. This means that people who actively play games like chess or who solve puzzles are not affected by Alzheimer’s or dementia until much later in life!

Our detective was kidnapped and locked up in a cell. He needs your help to get out from there and find out who locked him in there in the first place. But in order to do that, he needs to retrace his steps and solve a few puzzles along the way.

Tests based on misleading optical illusions are extremely popular nowadays. Internet users like them, and psychologists also use the same tests. It’s very important to pay attention to the first image you saw because you’ll definitely see other images after a while. Bright Side suggests you try one of these tests, but don’t take it too seriously. It won’t give you a full psychological portrait of your character, but it’ll provide you with some information about your personality that you should take into account.

Researchers identified that mentally active adults have better mental health abilities later in life. Also, keeping the mind active by solving brain teasers, in addition to regular physical exercise, can even help slow onset dementia.

Although humans think they can boast about being the most intelligent race on the planet, the truth is our minds still have to be trained and challenged from time to time. One of the best exercises to maintain mental agility is solving puzzles, and our brains aren’t used to applying logic and analysis, so it’s important to constantly challenge this way of thinking.

It’s said that the ancient Arabs used to check their eyesight with the help of stars. They had to look up at the night sky and find the Great Bear. If they could see a small star in the dipper’s handle, their eyesight was considered to be good. You can also use this method today. We invite you to take some interesting tests that can challenge your eyes even in the middle of the day.

Not all of us are mathematical geniuses and that is ok. But every once in a while, it is good to give your brain a nudge and put it to work. This will increase your focus and attention to detail. Take a piece of paper and write down your answers. You can also go to the kitchen, get some matches (don’t light them), and arrange them on a surface, like a table or a bed.

While looking at old photos of celebrities, we can barely recognize future actors, singers, or models in those young faces. But now they have a lot of fans all over the world, and millions of boys and girls want to look like them.