My first Magazine Creative Minds | Page 32

SOLVE THESE RIDDLES: What is at the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. The beginning of every end, the end of every place. How many months have twenty-eight days in them? A woman is sitting in her room at night. She has no lights on, no candle, no lamp, no light at all and yet she is reading. How is that possible? What can you never get rid of when you lose it? A man was taking a walk and it started to rain. He did not bring an umbrella or wear a hat. All of his clothes got wet but not a single hair got wet. How is this possible? Can you write “cow” in thirteen letters? What is green and smells like blue paint? What has keys but no locks, Space but no room, You can enter but you can’t exit. Say my name and I am no more. What am I? When I am first said, i’m quite mysterious, but when i’m explained, i’m nothing serious. What am I? Creativity not only comes with practice, but also patience. It takes time to be able to think outside the box and to come up with ideas which may have not been though of before. The human brain needs exercises just as much as the rest of the body. It might be dif cult to start something new at rst, but as you keep working at it, you will naturally get better. Riddles and other "Thinking games" are games and exercises that help develop thinking skills and so boost your brainpower. Some brain games exercise memory, or test knowledge (usually trivia), some require analysis, creativity and imagination. Interlocking and disentanglements challenges your spatial and visual perception, improve your ability to concentrate and take well thought out steps to achieve goals. Riddles along with other puzzles and games aid with your logical and cognitive thinking which in turn helps boost your creativity. This is because riddles take a lot of 'outside the box' thinking as the answer is not straightforward. Coming up with more complex and innovative ideas exercises the brain and eventually aids it to become more creative.