A new brain teaser claims that only highly intelligent people can spot the number six in a sea of nines. The goal is to find the designated number within 10 seconds or less, making it important to carefully look through the image. Spotting the number requires quick thinking, and if you can find the letter in the allotted timeframe, your level of intelligence is higher than people who take longer. These types of brainteasers can tell you a lot about how you think and view the world and help you develop problem-solving and logical reasoning skills. The picture shows columns of 78 numbers in total, with just one six hidden somewhere among the nines.

A new brain teaser reveals the most respected aspects of your personality. The puzzle features images that can be interpreted in different ways, depending on your personal experiences, traits and mental state. Hidden in the picture is a lion, panther and bunch of dandelions, and the one you see first means you are either a natural-born leader, a problem solver or have a strong sense of conviction. The puzzle features images that can be interpreted in different ways, depending on your personal experiences, traits and mental state. Did you see a lion, panther or dandelions first?

A new brain teaser claims that only highly intelligent people can spot a second horse in the majestic animal's painted coat. The picture features a full-grown horse standing in a field and asks viewers to use creative thinking to solve the brainteaser. Spotting the horse requires quick thinking, and if you can find the letter in 10 seconds or less, your level of intelligence is higher than people who take longer. A new brain teaser claims that only highly intelligent people can spot a second horse in the stallion's coat Solving the puzzle isn't so much about looking and simply seeing it, but about finding a different way to look at it. Set the timer for 10 seconds and try to find the second horse on the brown and white side of the stallion.

This paper describes our approach for SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: A Novel Task Defying Common Sense. The BRAINTEASER task comprises multiple-choice Question Answering designed to evaluate the models' lateral thinking capabilities. It consists of Sentence Puzzle and Word Puzzle subtasks that require models to defy default common-sense associations and exhibit unconventional thinking. We propose a unique strategy to improve the performance of pre-trained language models, notably the Gemini 1.0 Pro Model, in both subtasks. We employ static and dynamic few-shot prompting techniques and introduce a model-generated reasoning strategy that utilizes the LLM's reasoning capabilities to improve performance. Our approach demonstrated significant improvements, showing that it performed better than the baseline models by a considerable margin but fell short of performing as well as the human annotators, thus highlighting the efficacy of the proposed strategies.

The success of language models has inspired the NLP community to attend to tasks that require implicit and complex reasoning, relying on human-like commonsense mechanisms. While such vertical thinking tasks have been relatively popular, lateral thinking puzzles have received little attention. To bridge this gap, we devise BRAINTEASER: a multiple-choice Question Answering task designed to test the model's ability to exhibit lateral thinking and defy default commonsense associations. We design a three-step procedure for creating the first lateral thinking benchmark, consisting of data collection, distractor generation, and generation of adversarial examples, leading to 1,100 puzzles with high-quality annotations. To assess the consistency of lateral reasoning by models, we enrich BRAINTEASER based on a semantic and contextual reconstruction of its questions. Our experiments with state-of-the-art instruction- and commonsense language models reveal a significant gap between human and model performance, which is further widened when consistency across adversarial formats is considered. We make all of our code and data available to stimulate work on developing and evaluating lateral thinking models.

Letting your dog get away with disobedience won't benefit it during its old age, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna discovered that, instead, having your elderly dog play games on a touch screen might stave off cognitive decline. The scientists found that brain training and problem solving can slow the pace of brain deterioration. But the older dogs that could benefit from the training are rarely introduced to it. The study explains: 'Unlike puppies or young dogs, old dogs are almost never trained or challenged mentally.