The Cafe Wall Illusion
A Visual Brain Teaser to Exercise your Occipital Lobe
The Bat, Ball Problem
A baseball bat and a ball cost $1.10 together, and the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost? Did you arrive at 10 cents? If so, you'd be wrong. Here's the solution: Although $1.00 + $0.10 does equal $1.10, if you take $1.00 -...
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The Cafe Wall Illusion
This version of the café wall illusion, produced by Victoria Skye, has the Internet abuzz. This mind trickery is a geometrical-optical illusion in which the parallel straight dividing lines between...
A Visual Brain Teaser to Exercise your Occipital Lobe
Let's exercise our occipital lobe (the visual processing center in mammalian brains) and test our cognitive abilities! This brain teaser/puzzle is via SharpBrains. Pick the piece that's missing from the diagram...
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