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Children solve this puzzle faster!
Children solve this puzzle in less than 20 seconds. Adults are slower - how fast are you?
Solving a puzzle for children should be easy for adults. Or? This puzzle exercise is literally a breeze. Because interestingly, adults need much longer to get to the solution.
It is the task of a math test for first graders in Hong Kong, which is currently making the rounds on the Internet. The elementary students have 20 seconds, in most cases children solve the puzzle easily in the short time. Adults take much longer.
Is the puzzle so childish for you too ? Try it yourself and stop the time, how long you need for the solution!
On which parking lot number is the car?
The reason children find this puzzle easier to solve http://t.co/t6yoaQGRVC pic.twitter.com/ccXXcmgcxE
- i100 (@ thei100) March 27, 2015
Adults turn back and forth. What connection do the numbers 16, 6, 68, 88 and 98 have? The head smokes, it is diligently divided, subtracted and multiplied. This is not necessary! Because the connection is much simpler than you initially suspected. It does not have to be calculated at the task.
The puzzle solution : The numbers are upside down. Anyone who changes perspective once, sees that it is the car park 86 - 91. Since it seems only logical that the car is at number 87, when it is surrounded by 86 and 88. Children seem to come up with the puzzle much faster than adults because they think even more creatively and flexibly.
The fun of playing shows that adults are not superior to children in every situation. Often enough, the youngest of our society impressively show us how much we can still learn from them!
