Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games

Our Top 50 Selec­tion:

- Fun exper­i­ments on how our brains work -

1. Do you think you know the col­ors?: try the Stroop Test.

2. Can you count?: Bas­ket­ball atten­tion exper­i­ment (Interactive).

3. Who is this?: A very impor­tant lit­tle guy (Interactive).

4. Take the Senses Chal­lenge (Interactive).

5. Are there more brain con­nec­tions or leaves in the Ama­zon?.

6. How is this pos­si­ble?.

- Atten­tion -

7. How are your divided atten­tion skills? check out “Inside and Out­side”.

8. Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? try “Two in One”.

9. Count the Fs in this sen­tence.

10. Mon­keys and Brain Games: is your atten­tion bet­ter than a chimp’s?.

- Mem­ory -

11. Brain Exer­cises for the Week­end: a few chal­lenges to train atten­tion and work­ing memory.

12. Proud of your visual short-term mem­ory? Give a try at “Picasso”.

- Pat­tern recog­ni­tion and planning -

13. Plan­ning is not that easy: Tow­ers of Hanoi (Interactive).

14. What’s the miss­ing num­ber: Pat­tern Recog­ni­tion Brain Teaser.

15. Brain Puz­zle for the Whole Brain: The Blind Beg­gar.

16. Find the miss­ing num­ber in The Empty Tri­an­gle.

17. What about Tip­ping the Scales.

18. Don’t be mis­led by this brain work­out.

19. Please find the miss­ing num­ber here.

- Visual workouts -

20. Test the lim­its of your periph­eral vision with this chal­lenge (Interactive).

21. How many…: Train your Frontal and Pari­etal lobes.

22. Is a cir­cle a cir­cle?: Visual Per­cep­tion Brain Teaser.

23. Men­tal Imagery and Spa­tial Rota­tion challenge.

24. What piece fits here?.

25. Can you men­tally build this box?.

- Visual Illu­sions -

26. The Muller-Lyer Illu­sion (Interactive).

27. Don’t try this with your part­ner, or you may fight.

28. How many col­ors do you see in The Her­mann Grid.

29. This is less obvi­ous than it may appear.

30. Is this a cir­cle or what?.

31. The lim­its of our perception-and per­fec­tion.

32. Are these 2 rows par­al­lel?.

33. What do you see.

- Lan­guage and Logic -

34. Words in your brain: do you know where words are “stored” in your brain?.

35. Join this Party For Poly­glots.

36. Solve Dr. Nasty’s Giant Cube.

37. Which way is the bus head­ing?.

- With a Cor­po­rate angle -

38. Col­lec­tion of Stress Man­age­ment exer­cises.

39. Some Google/ Microsoft Brain Teasers used in interviews.

40. A few guessti­ma­tions like the ones I was asked in McK­in­sey inter­views years ago.

41. More guessti­ma­tions.

42. Your last Aha! moment?.

43. Can you read these faces.

- Math puzzles -

44. Choose the right Fork in the Road.

45. Find the the Really, Really, Really Big Num­ber.

46. Hard: The Unkind­est Cut of All, Part 1 of 2.

47. For geniuses: Con­cen­tric Shapes or The Unkind­est Cut of All, Part 2 of 2.

- Tough to categorize -

48. Clin­i­cally proven Stress Man­age­ment tip.

49. Enjoy this Sun­day After­noon Quiz.

50. Your Haiku, Please?: please, a haiku in honor of brain research.