China Top Talent Mind Game Training

Author: Ye Guan
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: "Get the brain moving" is one of the fundamental ways to exercise thinking skills. Only in this way can our attention, observation, imagination, and operational ability of thinking be comprehensively developed and utilized. Nowadays, many interview questions in job recruitment are designed to assess how candidates can comprehensively analyze the structure of things, flexibly transform their thinking, and use appropriate methods to solve the problem of re-adapting their thinking. "China High School Students' Thinking Game Training" collects game training questions from many flexible-thinking students in American and Chinese schools. It is a self-training tool that can examine one's own thinking structure, comprehensively decode knowledge, integrate knowledge, decode thinking, and exercise wisdom... Today, gifted students all over the world are playing the same games, and gifted students all over the world are infinitely expanding their minds. We sincerely hope to enter the mysterious realm of thinking together with you and walk hand in hand into a bright tomorrow!...
35. The Uncertain Vacation
A worker got several days of vacation, during which the weather was as follows:
1. It rained 7 times in total between the morning and afternoon.
2. If it rained in the afternoon, the entire morning was sunny.
3. There were 5 sunny afternoons.
4. There were 6 sunny mornings.
How many days did he take off in total?
36. Confusing Nonsense
Two children were confused and couldn’t figure out what day it was. They stopped on their way to school to clarify the matter.
"One day from now, when the day after tomorrow becomes yesterday," one child said, "the distance between today and Sunday will be the same as the distance between today and Sunday when today becomes tomorrow."
What day of the week did this nonsensical conversation take place?
37. Weather Forecast
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang accurately predicted foggy weather and a northwest wind turning southeast, which was then divined as his mastery of celestial calculations. Today, the mystery of weather forecasting has long been diminished. However, in this book, Zhuge Liang sets a puzzle for Lu Su. Here, logical reasoning is key.
Zhuge Liang said to Lu Su, "I’ve adjusted the weather forecast I made the day before yesterday. If you can understand it clearly, I can tell you the weather for the day after tomorrow."
Zhuge Liang continued, "Today’s weather is different from yesterday’s. If tomorrow’s weather is the same as yesterday’s, then the weather for the day after tomorrow will be the same as the day before yesterday. But if tomorrow’s weather is the same as today’s, then the weather for the day after tomorrow will be the same as yesterday’s."
Zhuge Liang’s weather forecast was indeed accurate, as it rained both today and the day before yesterday. What was the weather like yesterday?
38. Three Boxes
There are three identical boxes, each containing two balls. One box has two white balls, one has two black balls, and one has one white ball and one black ball. Each box is labeled with a tag: "" (two white), "" (two black), and "" (one white, one black). However, due to a mistake, all the labels are incorrect. By randomly picking a ball from any box, you can determine what balls are in each box.
39. What Day Is It Today?
In a liar’s kingdom in the universe, men and women alternate between days of telling the truth and days of lying. Men tell the truth on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and lie on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Women tell the truth on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday, and lie on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. One day, a man and a woman were chatting.
The man said, "Yesterday was a day when I lied."
The woman said, "Yesterday was also a day when I lied!"
What day of the week was it?