16 Responses

1. Senia says:

   September 20, 2006 at 8:23

   I think it’s i or a. I’ll go with a.
2. senia.com » Introducing … the Sharpbrains Blog! says:

   September 20, 2006 at 2:25

   […] My favorite sec­tion of the sharp­brains blog is the brain exer­cises sec­tion. This sec­tion, which is updated with a new brain puz­zles every few days, has you shuf­fle around dif­fer­ent parts of your brain — some­time doing esti­mates and cal­cu­la­tions, some­times inter­est­ing word exer­cises, and my favorite is that Alvaro puts up many visual puz­zles, such as the penny ques­tion, the Stroop test, and the clas­sic old-lady/young-lady (see the post for an expla­na­tion of the below image): […]
3. Victoria says:

   September 21, 2006 at 4:31

   Answer: g
4. Ashley says:

   September 22, 2006 at 5:14

   a.
5. Alvaro says:

   September 22, 2006 at 6:06

   Answer: a

   See pic at
   http://www.managementcornerstones.com/Images/penny%20face.jpg
6. » Brain Teasers and Games for adults, with a neuroscience angle: our Top 50    « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:

   October 16, 2007 at 10:44

   […] 11. Easy one…draw the face of a penny, please. […]
7. casey says:

   January 10, 2008 at 12:46

   hahah the answer is a or G you cant read the words in od we trust so you cant be shure
8. miss says:

   January 11, 2008 at 11:11

   we dont have pen­nies from where i come from, so i couldnt try that
9. liam says:

   January 26, 2008 at 6:22

   our pen­nies just depict the queens head look­ing right with her name and some othe dudes going around the out­side of it.
10. Sam says:

    March 14, 2008 at 7:42

    The face is Abe Lin­colns, The rest is just words.
11. Aaron says:

    March 23, 2008 at 10:17

    I was think­ing between a and g, but I think a penny has the longer curve on top, so I’m going with G, final answer
12. Pris says:

    December 8, 2008 at 9:35

    I guess its “g”

    The image looks cor­rects, but I can not read the facts
13. Mark says:

    December 9, 2008 at 10:28

    the answer is A. not that hard folks
14. Susie says:

    February 28, 2009 at 11:32

    I don’t think the point is whether or not this exer­cise is “hard.” Hard is a rel­a­tive term when deal­ing with mem­ory, in my hum­ble opin­ion. For exam­ple, one who makes his or her liv­ing mak­ing pen­nies may scoff at any­one who could not rec­og­nize the cor­rect penny. How­ever, the same indi­vid­ual may feel quite out of his or her ele­ment when asked how many red stripes are on the red and white striped hat of Dr. Seuss’s char­ac­ter “The Cat in the Hat” with­out look­ing. How­ever, many chil­dren could quickly tell you that the answer is three. What’s rel­e­vant to one per­son may not be all that impor­tant to another per­son. Thank good­ness we don’t remem­ber every sin­gle detail of every item we’ve seen in our lives. We’d go stark rav­ing mad!
15. usmc3062 says:

    April 17, 2009 at 7:48

    It can’t be a there is only 3 num­bers in the date on a
16. Niels says:

    October 29, 2009 at 7:51

    I’ve never seen a penny, do you have a eurocent?