1. Reachany & Stella

2. What is it?
A mentally challenging problem or puzzle whose solution requires great ingenuity.

3. Why is it important? Develops and challenges your brain
Opens your mind
Increases creativity
Learns how to think from different perspectives

4. Facts of brain
The brain is the center of the humans nervous system, controlling our thoughts, movements, memories and decisions.
The brain of an adult human weighs around 3 pounds (1.5kg). Although it makes up just 2% of the body’s weight, uses around 20% of the energy.
Every time your heart beats, your arteries carry 20-25% your blood to the brain. The harder you think, the more oxygen and fuel your brain will use from your blood – up to 50%.

5. Rules You will be split into two teams
First to write the answer on the board will get a point
The team with the most points by the end of the week will receive a treat on Friday

6. Daily Activity
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Friday
Thursday

7. Clever Brain Teasers Riddles that require extra brain power
Read sentences carefully
You will have 1 minute to answer each teaser
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8. Questions (Monday)
If it takes six men one hour to dig six holes, how long does it take one man to dig half a hole?
How many apples can you fit into an empty box?
You walk across a bridge and you see a boat full of people yet there isn't a single person on board. How is that possible?
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9. Answer 1
There is no such thing as half a hole
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10. Answer 2
One, then it isn’t empty anymore
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11. Answer 3
All of the people on the boat are married
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12. Math Games
Use your math skills to figure out the answers
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13. Questions (Tuesday)
You have a 4 gallon and a 7 gallon jug of water. How can you measure exactly 6 gallons of water using these two jugs?
A man weighing 14 stone and his two sons weighing 7 stone each were stranded on an island. All they had to get off the island was a small boat, but it could only hold 14 stone. How did the man and his sons get off the island?
This riddle must be done IN YOUR HEAD and NOT using paper and pen or a calculator. Try it! Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 to it. Now add 30. And another Now add 20. Now add another Now add 10. What is the total?
Lilly has 15 pop can tabs all together they equal $30. She dropped one and lost 2. But she has $26. Explain.
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14. Answer 1
Fill up the 7 gallon jug completely. Now pour as much of the 7 gallons as you can into the 4 gallon jug. You should have 3 gallons in the 7 gallon jug. Dump out the 4 gallon jug, pour the 3 gallons from the 7 gallon jug into the 4 gallon container. Finally, fill up the 7 gallon jug completely and pour what you can, 1 gallon, into the 4 gallon jug until it is full. Taking 1 gallon from seven gallons leaves 6 gallons.
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15. Answer 2
The two sons get in the boat and go back to shore, one jumps out, the other rows back to the island and gets out. The dad gets in and rides back to shore where he jumps out and the other son gets back in. The son goes back to the island and collects the other son and together the two of them row back to the safety of the shore!
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16. Answer 3
Did you get 5000? Way to go. Most of us did, but that’s wrong. The answer is Believe it: use a calculator.
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17. Answer 4
One pop can tab equals $2. She lost 2 so there goes $4. She dropped one but didn’t lose it, so she has $26
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18. Poem Riddles
Teasers worded as poems
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19. Questions (Wednesday)
I have streets but no pavement, I have cities but no buildings, I have forests but no trees, I have rivers yet no water.
I am small as an ant and big as a whale, I can soar through the air like a bird with a tail. I can be seen by day and not by night, I can be seen with a big flash of light. I follow whoever controls me by the sun, but I fade away when dark fell like a ton.
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20. Questions (Wednesday)
3. You may enter, but you may not come in, I have space, but no room, I have keys, but open no lock. 4. He who builds me doesn't want me, he who buys me doesn't use me, he that uses me doesn't know he's got me.
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21. Answer 1
A map
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22. Answer 2
A shadow
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23. Answer 3
Keyboard
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24. Answer 4
A coffin
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25. Rebus puzzle Pictures that represent phrases or words
Example: What does this say? QTPI
Answer: Cutie Pie
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26. Questions (Thursday) What does this say? TOIMWN
What does this say? Yyuryyubicuryy4me
What does this say? MEREPEAT
What does this say? FriendsMisunderstandingFriends
Who is this: 1d2r3a4c5u6l7a8?
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27. Questions (Thursday)
6. What does this say: T RN? 7. What does this say? Pot oooooooo. 8. What does this say? STOOD MISS 9. What does this say? I'm A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z 10. What does this say? REET T S
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28. Answer 1
I’m in town
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29. Answer 2
Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me
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30. Answer 3
Repeat after me
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31. Answer 4
Misunderstanding between friends
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32. Answer 5
Count Dracula
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33. Answer 6
No U turn
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34. Answer 7
Po t8 os (Potatoes)
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35. Answer 8
Misunderstood
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36. Answer 9
I’m missing you
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37. Answer 10
Street corner
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38. What am I
Guess the answers by the clues given
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39. Questions (Friday)
I am so fragile that sound can destroy me, what am I?
When I was born I was big but the older I get the smaller I am. What am I?
I travel around the world but never leave the corner. What am I?
I have holes but hold water, what am I?
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40. Questions (Friday)
5. I am bare in the winter and covered in the summer, what am I? 6. I start with an E, end with an E and I only have one letter, what am I? 7. You buy me to eat, but you don't eat me. What am I?
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41. More Facts!
Size doesn’t matter in the brain. There is no evidence that a larger brain is smarter than a smaller brain.
According to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, adults who participated in the mind-challenging activities were 63% less likely to develop dementia.
The rate at which your brain processes information can range from 0.5 meters/second (about 1 mile/hour) to 120 meters/second (268 MPH).

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43. Answer 1
Silence
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44. Answer 2
A candle
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45. Answer 3
A stamp
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46. Answer 4
A sponge
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47. Answer 5
A tree
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48. Answer 6
An envelope
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49. Answer 7
A plate
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