Over the last 2 years we have posted close to 100 puz­zles, teasers, rid­dles, and every kind of form of men­tal exercise.

Below you have a selec­tion of the most pop­u­lar ones among Sharp­Brains read­ers, based on the num­ber of com­ments left, and the total num­ber of peo­ple who have vis­ited them. With­out fur­ther ado…here you are:

Top 15 Puz­zles Teasers and Rid­dles for the Brain

1. Can you count?: Bas­ket­ball atten­tion exper­i­ment (Interactive).

2. Which way is the bus head­ing?.

3. Words in your brain: do you know where words are “stored” in your brain?.

4. Please Spot the Differences.

5. Do you think you know the col­ors?: Quick, try the Stroop Test.

6. Clin­i­cally proven Stress Man­age­ment tip.

7. Rid­dle for the Whole Brain: The Blind Beggar.

8. What is going on with these pictures?.

9. Puz­zles Teasers for the Week­end: a few chal­lenges to exer­cise your atten­tion and work­ing memory.

10. Con­sider Linda’s job prospects: rid­dle, or obvious?.

11. Count the Fs in this sen­tence.

12. Please find the miss­ing num­ber here.

13. How many… exer­cise your Frontal and Pari­etal lobes.

14. Men­tal Imagery and Spa­tial Rota­tion challenge.

15. Enjoy this Sun­day After­noon Quiz.

As a bonus, you can also try and write some Brainy Haikus. To inspire you, below you have a few haikus writ­ten by our read­ers (given that nov­elty, vari­ety and chal­lenge are impor­tant for our brains, writ­ing haikus equals –for most of us who are not haiku spe­cial­ists– another form of puz­zles teasers to exer­cise our brains).

- Amit:

Love, col­lege, career.
A new world of tran­si­tions.
Will I sur­vive? Yes.

- Kathy:

My release tech­nique,
For­give, for­get, love all,
Med­i­tate on that!

- Alan:

Through the micro­scope,
slice of brain stains pink and blue,
the won­der of thought.

- Justin:

Justin the genieus
Must spell check the word genius
to post this Haiku

- GTB, the skep­tic, says

Haiku’s are easy
But some­times they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

Enough?

If you want more puz­zles and teasers, you can always visit our Brain­Teasers page.

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