Riddles help creative thinking

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Does thinking outside the box matter ? Does it help with your everyday life? How do riddles help improve the way you think about certain situations?

Intake Coordinator Mike says, “uhm…. They make you think outside the box”

According to Forsyth Teacher Chris, “ Riddles have a positive effect on your thinking because it causes you to think in ways you dont think in.”

Riddles are a question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, typically presented as a game.

The following are the riddles that make you think outside of the box:

1.I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

2.A vivid reality, a naked morality, a place where wishes come true. What Am I?

3. A detective who was mere days away from cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing.While inspecting his last-known location,officers find a note: 710 57735 34 5508 51 7718.Currently there are 3 suspects:Bill John,and Todd. Can you break this answer and tell me the reason.

4.What tastes better than it smells?

5.What goes in the water black and comes out red?

6.What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

7. What has a foot but no legs?

8. I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

9.A man is in his car. He sees three doors; a golden one, a diamond one and a silver one. Which door does he go through first?

10.I start with M and end with X. I have a never ending amount of letters. What am I?

11. The first guy makes IT, but never uses it then sells IT. the second guy buys IT but never uses IT. The third guy uses IT but never sees it. The third man is not blind. What is IT.

The Money Riddle

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The answers to the featured riddles here will be in next weeks article. So stay tuned ;)