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The Answers
P.11. Association Puzzle: Did you think of a red hammer? Apparently the vast
majority of people do. The reason why this works would seem to be that the
mental calculations are a distraction to clear the mind, enabling the most
likely answers for each category to emerge upon prompting (red being the
most commonly ‘spontaneously thought of’ color, and hammer being the
most commonly ‘spontaneously thought of’ tool).
P.13. Spelling Tricks: Did they say ‘milk’ and toast? The answers are ‘water’
and ‘bread’.
P.17. Mental Math Trick: Elephant?
P.21. Mental Math Trick: 5,000? Wrong. Try it again. The correct answer is
4,100. The mind knows that the final 10 will have a ‘rounding-up’ effect,
and expects it to impact the 1,000’s instead of the 100’s. The mind fails to
calculate the final figure properly because it’s locked into an expectation.
P.23. Whodunnit: Mr Blue did it.
P.25. Pool Puzzler: They were the musicians in the band.
P.29. 3-digit Maths Trick: Your answer is 1089. Works every time.
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P.31. Complete the Formula: 10 10(to) 10 = 9.50 (9.50 in this context is an
expression of time - 0950hrs - not a decimal number; the brain of course
instantly fixes on the number as a pure decimal number and looks for an
impossible solution.)
