Lateral Thinking (Week 6)

What is Lateral Thinking ?

Lateral thinking is an ability to think outside the box and solve problems from an unexpected perspective. Lateral thinking involves discarding the obvious, leaving behind traditional modes of thought, and throwing away preconceptions. 

My opinion about lateral thinking

When you solve a lateral thinking quizzes, sometimes you will think in an insane way and feel like you are a genius but you still can't solve the problems. This is what I feel when I try to solve this quiz which I found when I was searching about lateral thinking.

When I looked at this question, I started to think there must be something which is related to number 6 and 8 because both number appear the most. Then I started to guess the number by minus 98 with 88 then get 10 which 1 from 16 and 0 from 06. I don't know why I started to add 1 with 6 then get 7. So I answered 78. Maybe when you read this you will laugh at the way I think of the answer, but truthfully that is how I think. However, I startled when I saw the solution. Thought of "I'm the dumbest people ever" come to my mind. 

So, the right answer is 87

One thing which made me more startled is that this question has been asked for Hong Kong Elementary School Admission Test! This statement makes me become more stupid!

Nice answer! I really don't know how to solve this.

In this lesson, our lecturer gave us some problems to solve. This are 3 out of 6 problems which he gave us.

Answer : match

I have heard about this type of question with the same answer before, but I forgot what is the answer and kept answer wrongly. When I was in that situation, I will light the candle first, spacing out for minutes and light up the oil lamp and firewood. I didn't realized that we must light the match up first before we can light the candle. The answer is funny but it makes sense!

Answer : hole

I found the answer is nonsense, but in real life, it makes sense

I never thought the answer would be like this!

Well, lateral thinking is a skill that we can learn and the answer is obviously logic, but we don't think the in a basic way but sometimes we think in such a complicated ways.