Alvaro Fernandez
Sep 17th, 2006
Sep 17th, 2006
Brain exercise: draw the face of a penny, please
How many pennies have you seen in your life?
Can you recognize the face of a penny, with all its elements, now?
You will probably find the answer in your pockets, not in your mind.
Comment: in reality, does anyone need to know exactly what the face of a penny looks like? We can probably survive without knowing it. Our attention and memory are selective.



I think it's i or a. I'll go with a.
[...] 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): [...]
Answer: g
a.
Answer: a
See pic at
http://www.managementcornerstones.com/Images/penny%20face.jpg
[...] 11. Easy one...draw the face of a penny, please. [...]
hahah the answer is a or G you cant read the words in od we trust so you cant be shure
we dont have pennies from where i come from, so i couldnt try that
our pennies just depict the queens head looking right with her name and some othe dudes going around the outside of it.
The face is Abe Lincolns, The rest is just words.
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