The Riddle Oracle To Create Paradigm Shifts
Riddle Your Cognition. Debug Your Biases.
17 min readJun 21, 2021
You may not be having the intent to deceive others while desperately deceiving yourself. — 2013–06.12
A perspective shift must happen before a paradigm shift. If we refuse to look beyond the affixed beliefs and review without preconceived bias at the unexamined or under-examined data and details, nothing aside status quo will happen.
Our perception guides our moods and our life. Happiness is not just thoughts, it is thoughts, words and deeds aligned. You either become or not, you don’t just think — you become. It starts from a paradigm shift, then an active, committed, adaptive progress to move away from a dysfunctional and paralyzing status quo.
Look for paradigm shifts, not happiness. Happiness is a mood, but paradigm shifts shapes your character. Tune and gradually become. Shifting and sharpening your perception may not change the world, yet again it may … a change of mind view may lead to a deciding course of actions that may propagate along the network of human events, resonating along the poles and pegs of the human system, shifting the human ecological paradigm. To change the world, we have to un-learn, learn and re-learn to gain fresh perspectives and insights to possibilities — previously misperceived and un-conceived.
Any instrument that shifts the paradigm of thoughts and emotions is a tool of mind shaping. — 1994
Riddles can be tools of mind bending Zen exercise to derive lessons for paradigm shift. Once the Oracle gives us the ability to shift our paradigms and perspectives, we may be able to augment our insight to what was formerly not within our coverage, to uncover the answer.
* Answers are flipped upside down.Exercise: Fundamental Attribution Error
Riddle 1: A father and son were in a car accident where the father was killed. The ambulance brought the son to the hospital. He needed immediate surgery. In the operating room, a doctor came in and looked at the little boy and said I can't operate on him he is my son. Who is the doctor?
Answer: ˙ɹǝɥʇoɯ ǝɥ┴Riddle 2: A cowboy rides 18 hours into town and 18 hours out of town on Sunday - how is this possible?
Answer: ˙ʎɐpunS pǝɯɐu sᴉ ǝsɹoɥ ǝɥ┴
Alternative Answer(s):
1. ˙(lᴉɐʇǝp ƃuᴉssᴉW :ǝsᴉɔɹǝxƎ :ɹǝɟǝɹ) ʞǝǝʍ ɐ pǝʎɐʇs ǝH
2. ˙(ʇxǝʇuoƆ ƃuᴉʞɔɐ˥ :ǝsᴉɔɹǝxƎ :ɹǝɟǝɹ) ʇǝuɐld ɹǝɥʇouɐ uo uʍoʇ ɐ uo ʎɐp-ɹnoɥ ㄣᄅ ʇou sᴉ ʎɐp ǝɥʇ ʇnq 'ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ pǝɯɐu ǝq ʎɐɯ ʎɐp ǝɥ┴Riddle 3: I busted 2 robbery suspects- the younger was the father of the other one's son - how is that possible?"
Answer: (˙ǝɟᴉʍ ǝɥʇ uɐɥʇ ɹǝƃunoʎ sɐʍ puɐqsnɥ ǝɥ┴) ˙ǝɟᴉʍ puɐ puɐqsnɥ ǝɹǝʍ ʎǝɥ┴sɐᴉq ƃuᴉdʎʇoǝɹǝʇS :ʇuᴉH *Exercise: Cognitive Overloading
This relates to cognitive load conditioning and oversight. This is also caused by processing memory errors or memory bias.Riddle 1: You're trapped in a room. You see water coming out of a tap. The water is coming out very fast, and the room is very small, and is going to be completely filled with water in five minutes if the tap water keeps filling the room. All you have is a mop, a chair, a rope, and a bucket. How do you survive?
Answer: ˙dɐʇ ǝɥʇ ɟɟo uɹn┴Riddle 2: When I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives. Every wife had 7 sacks, every sack had 7 cats, every cat had 7 kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: ɟlǝsʎɯ - ǝuORiddle 3: A plane crashed on the border or US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
Answer: ˙ƃuᴉʌᴉl ǝɥʇ ʎɹnq ʇ,uop no⅄Riddle 4: How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
Answer: ˙sɐʍ ɥɐoN ʞɹɐ ǝɥʇ uo ʇ,usɐʍ sǝsoW 'ǝuoNNotes: Cognitive Overloading is part of Programmed Confusion. This is accomplished with a deluge of new information, lectures, discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one processing, which usually amounts to the controller bombarding the individual with questions. To confuse people, give them lots of things to remember by starting to talk about something and then, before completing it, start some other story. After 4 or 5 of these initiations, they will be so busy trying to remember the starts and parts of the stories they will put less attention into countering the arguments and analyzing ideas placed forward. This causes alertness reduction, and reality and illusion often merge and perverted logic is likely to be accepted. With Cognitive Overloading, Thought Stopping, causing the mind activity to go flatten, resulting in lesser cognitive engagement or non-thinking and non-involvement.Exercise: Lacking Context
Riddle 1: I am easy to get into, but hard to get out of. What Am I?
Answer: ǝlqnoɹ┴Riddle 2: I am easy to get out of, but hard to get into. What am i?Answer: ǝʇsɐdɥʇoo┴Riddle 3: You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?
Answer: uoᴉʇɔǝlɟǝɹ ∀Riddle 4: Who can travel around the world while staying in a corner?Answer: dɯɐʇs ∀Riddle 5: Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.
Answer: ǝɹᴉℲRiddle 6: What has 4 legs and is always ready to travel?
Answer: ˙(ǝsɐɔʇᴉns) ʞunɹʇ ɐ sɐɥ ʇᴉ ǝsnɐɔǝq ʇuɐɥdǝlǝ u∀Riddle 7: What makes my left hand, my right hand?
Answer: ɹoɹɹᴉɯ ∀Riddle 8: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: dɯɐʇs ∀Riddle 9: What has a head and a tail, but no body?
Answer: uᴉoɔ ∀Riddle 10: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: lǝʍoʇ ∀Riddle 11: Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?
Answer: uoᴉuo u∀Riddle 12: What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
Answer: ɥʇɐǝɹq sᴉHRiddle 13:
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.In "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien, there are several riddles that Gollum and Bilbo ask each other.
Answer: ɥsᴉℲVoiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.Answer: ƃƃpuᴉMA box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.Answer: ƃ‾ƃ‾ƎRiddle 14: If you look at the number on my face you won't find '13' anyplace.
Answer: ʞɔolƆRiddle 15: Tear one off and scratch my head what was red is black instead.
Answer: ʞɔᴉʇsɥɔʇɐɯRiddle 16: What is always on its way but never arrives?
Answer: ʍoɹɹoɯo┴Riddle 17: When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
Answer:
˙ʍoɹɹos uI :ǝʌᴉʇɐuɹǝʇl∀
˙puɐsʞɔᴉnb uᴉ pǝddɐɹʇ s,ǝɥ uǝɥMRiddle 18: There is a product that 100s of people have used it at least once before you bought it.
Answer: ˙ɹoɹɹᴉɯ ∀Exercise: Missing Detail
Riddle 1: A truck driver is going the opposite traffic on a 1-way street. A police officer sees him but does not stop him. Why?
Answer: ˙ƃuᴉʞlɐʍ sᴉ ɹǝʌᴉɹpRiddle 2: A girl was 10 on her last birthday and will be 12 on her next birthday. How is this possible?
Answer: ʎɐpɥʇɹᴉq ɥʇƖƖ ɹǝɥ sᴉ ʎɐpo┴Riddle 3: At what circumstances, will the following statement not discount the crime and safety of Gotham city: ″Someone gets mugged in Gotham city every 10 minutes″?
Answer: ˙ʎnƃ ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ sʎɐʍlɐ sı pǝƃƃnɯ ʇoƃ oɥʍ uosɹǝd ǝɥʇ uǝɥMExercise: Looking At The Wrong Place
Riddle 1: Which side of the cat has more fur?
Answer: ǝpᴉsʇno ǝɥ┴Riddle 2: Imagine you are in the middle of the sea, your boat has a hole, and you are surrounded by sharks. What will you do?
Answer: ƃuᴉuᴉƃɐɯᴉ doʇSRiddle 3: Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Answer: ˙ʇou ɯɐ I spɹɐʍʞɔɐq 'uoʇ ɯɐ I pɹɐʍɹoℲ
* Hidden in the line or words. Exercise: Hidden Ambiguity
Riddle 1: What building has the most stories?
Answer: ʎɹɐɹqᴉl ǝɥ┴Riddle 2: What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Answer: ˙ɥʇɐǝɹq ɹno⅄Riddle 3: What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: ǝnƃuoʇ ∀Riddle 4: There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
Answer: ˙ɹǝʇɥƃᴉl ǝʇʇǝɹɐƃᴉɔ ɐ ʇɐoq ǝɥʇ ǝpɐɯ puɐ pɹɐoqɹǝʌo ǝʇʇǝɹɐƃᴉɔ ǝuo ʍoɹɥ┴Exercise: Anchoring Bias
Refer: The `Silk` exercise.Exercise: You Have To 'See' With Mathematics
Riddle 1: Say a company tests 2 treatments for an illness. In trial No. 1, treatment A cures 20% of its cases (40 out of 200) and treatment B cures 15% of its cases (30 out of 200). In trial No. 2, treatment A cures 85% of its cases (85 out of 100) and treatment B cures 75% of its cases (300 out of 400).... So, in 2 trials, treatment A scored 20% and 85%. Also in two trials, treatment B scored only 15% and 75%. No matter how many people were in those trials, treatment A (at 20% and 85%) is surely better than treatment B (at 15% and 75%), right?
Answer: ˙%ᄅㄣ ʇnoqɐ ʎluo ɟo ǝʇɐɹ ssǝɔɔns ɐ 'pǝᴉɹʇ sɐʍ ʇᴉ ɥɔᴉɥʍ uᴉ (00Ɩ+00ᄅ) sǝsɐɔ 00Ɛ ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇno (ϛ8+0ㄣ) ϛᄅƖ pǝɹnɔ ∀ ʇuǝɯʇɐǝɹʇ 'ʇsɐɹʇuoɔ ʎq˙˙˙%ϛϛ ɟo ǝʇɐɹ ssǝɔɔns ɐ--pǝᴉɹʇ sɐʍ ʇᴉ ɥɔᴉɥʍ uᴉ (00ㄣ+00ᄅ) sǝsɐɔ 009 ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇno (0Ɛ+00Ɛ) 0ƐƐ pǝɹnɔ ʇI ˙ɹǝʇʇǝq pǝɯɹoɟɹǝd q ʇuǝɯʇɐǝɹ┴Riddle 2: If one man can mow a wheat field with a scythe in four 12-hour days and another man takes 3 such days, how long will it take them to mow the field working together? * (This planet is 12-hour day)
Answer:
ᄅƖ/ㄥ = ᄅƖ/ㄣ + ᄅƖ/Ɛ = Ɛ/Ɩ + ㄣ/Ɩ spǝǝds ǝɥʇ ƃuᴉpp∀ʎɐp ɹǝd plǝᴉɟ Ɛ/Ɩ = pǝǝds 'sʎɐp Ɛ 'plǝᴉɟ Ɩ :ᄅ uosɹǝԀ
ʎɐp ɹǝd plǝᴉɟ ㄣ/Ɩ = pǝǝds 'sʎɐp ㄣ 'plǝᴉɟ Ɩ :Ɩ uosɹǝԀsǝʇnuᴉɯ ㄣƐ sɹnoɥ 0ᄅ ɹo spuoɔǝs 6ᄅㄣƖ˙ㄥƖ sǝʇnuᴉɯ ㄣƐ sɹnoɥ 8 ʎɐp ('ɹnoɥ ᄅƖ) Ɩ = ㄥ/ϛ + Ɩ = ㄥ/ᄅƖ = (ᄅƖ/ㄥ) / Ɩ = pǝǝds ɹǝʌo ǝɔuɐʇsᴉp = ǝɯᴉ┴Riddle 3: If one man can paint a house in 2 days, another man can do it in 2.5 days at what rate would a third man have to paint houses for them, working together, to paint a house in a day?
Answer:
sʎɐp 0Ɩ ʎɹǝʌǝ Ɩ ɟo ǝʇɐɹ ɐ ʇɐ sǝsnoɥ sʇuᴉɐd ǝɥ 'ǝʇɐɹ ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ pǝʞsɐ I ǝɔuᴉs 'ɹO ˙ǝsnoɥ ɐ ʇuᴉɐd oʇ sʎɐp 0Ɩ uɐɯ pɹᴉɥʇ ǝɥʇ sǝʞɐʇ ʇI0Ɩ = x
x/Ɩ + ㄣ˙0 + ϛ˙0 = Ɩʎɐp ɹǝd ǝsnoɥ x/Ɩ = pǝǝds 'sʎɐp x 'ǝsnoɥ Ɩ :Ɛ uosɹǝԀ
ʎɐp ɹǝd ǝsnoɥ ϛ/ᄅ = pǝǝds 'sʎɐp ϛ˙ᄅ 'ǝsnoɥ Ɩ :ᄅ uosɹǝԀ
ʎɐp ɹǝd ǝsnoɥ ᄅ/Ɩ = pǝǝds 'sʎɐp ᄅ 'ǝsnoɥ Ɩ :Ɩ uosɹǝԀExercise: Breaking Up The Components
Riddle 1: A blind man is alone on a deserted island. He has 2 blue pills and 2 red pills. He must take exactly 1 red pill and 1 blue pill or he will die. How does he do it?Answer 1: ˙ɹǝʌo ʇɟǝl ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ ǝʌɐɥ pu∀ ˙llᴉd ǝnlq ǝuo puɐ llᴉd pǝɹ ǝuo pǝɯnsuoɔ ǝʌɐɥ llᴉʍ ǝɥ sllᴉd ㄣ llɐ ɥʇᴉʍ sᴉɥʇ ǝuop s,ǝɥ uǝɥM ˙ʍoɹɹoɯoʇ ɹoɟ ǝpᴉsɐ ɟlɐɥ ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ ʎɐl puɐ ɥʇnoɯ ɹnoʎ uᴉ ɟlɐɥ ǝuo dod sᴉɥʇ op noʎ sɐ 'ɟlɐɥ uᴉ sllᴉd ǝɥʇ ɟo ɥɔɐǝ ʞɐǝɹqAnswer 2: ˙ʇᴉ ɟo ᄅ/Ɩ ǝʞɐʇ 'ɹǝʇɐʍ ɥʇᴉʍ xᴉW"""
I told my students a riddle when I was teaching once in class - "What would your 1st wish be if a genie gives you 3 wishes." All sorts of answers came. Then I gave 2 possible answers:
1. Infinite wishes to come true no matter when
2. Your power
- 2017-08.03
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That great circle that creates the point is the 1st Cause. — Anonymous
Facts don’t lie ….. but they hide the truth. — Re: Simpson’s paradox/ Disembarking from common logic, 2003–11.18
The common causes of cognitive incorrectness is the basis of cognitive unsoundness. It is mainly caused by informational incompleteness, either to the gap and lack of context or content, and/or caused by informational incorrectness, by means of informational corruption (context or content) by truncation (sometimes due to cognitive overloading) and informational deformation or corruption.
The study of the perception and how the mind can be exploited with crafted mentalistic hijacks would elevate defensive perspicacity and augmented clarity.
We can and should create Riddle Oracles to create events and exercises to make paradigm shifts and/or paradigm augmentation. They unsheathed and cast light to our previous blindness, and give sight for previously `unseen insights`. The Riddle Oracles are tools to mine the unknown, asking questions that perhaps should have been left un-examined or under-examined — blinding the free will by reducing the free choice to a few controlled options.
Exercise: Anthropic ‘Coincidences’
Describe 3 incidents of `Black Swans` in your life. Example(s):
1. An example of a historical `Black Swan` may be the account of the Russian revolution that took the sudden historical turn to remove the royal family in 5 days.Exercise: Confirmation Bias (Myside Bias, Endowment Effect, Belief Overkill or Choice-Supportive Bias)
When people conflate their beliefs and values, the fallacy starts when they all point to the same conclusion. Understand the tendency for the mind to filter and focus evidence in the favor to create the `truth` of the matter. Try to conceive possible debunks that can invalidate preconceptions.
Describe an incident that history was revised or how scientific reviews were reversed.Example(s):
1. Tobacco industryFocusing effect (Anchoring) can distort objectivity causing erroneous or unfair judgment. The related bias would be Disconfirmation Bias which is the tendency to extend critical scrutiny to information which contradicts their prior beliefs and accept uncritically information that is congruent with their prior beliefs. Similarly, selective perception and memory bias based on preference, prejudice and pride can neurologically upset objective cognition and affect perception.Exercise: Projection Bias
Understand and describe how similar and dissimilar in mindset and sentiments your culture is compared to 3 other cultures of disparate settings. This also pertains to `Status Quo Bias` which induce a tendency for people to prefer things to stay relatively the same. This bias can lead to `pseudocertainty effect` where the person will have the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. Therein, create `Rosy retrospection`, which is the tendency to rate past events more positively than they had actually rated them when the event occurred.The delusion will further exacerbate the `Neglect of Probability` to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty, and `Omission Bias` to misjudge harmful actions as worse, or less moral than equally harmful omissions or inactions.The projection bias is likely based on `Belief Bias` (aka `belief perseverance` or `Experimenter's regress`), and it is both towards people and subject matter.Exercise: Halo Effect
Describe an incidents how a celebrity fell from a once publicly loved glamorous spectacle into vile ignominy, such as a debunk of a scandalous `fake-it-till-you-make-it` confidence scam.Exercise: Illusory Correlation And Freakonomics
Explore the truths of hidden dynamics within sociology and economics of relationship between a certain type of action and an effect, whether in surfacing unknowns or falsifying beliefs that inaccurately explains them. Exercise: Media Bias Herding
Identify media bias and information bias, and recognize how the public is steered and `herded` into sentiments for or against. Understand how some topics are put into oblivion while some topics are placed afore the attention of the public gain their focus or distract them from awareness.Exercise: Creating Illusions with Observer-Expectancy Effect
Study the reveal of some magic routines. Many are based on creating an expectation, and misdirecting the mind not look pass that blindspot. Von Restorff effect, for example, is used as a mentalist routine in card forcing by intentionally delaying a card flip, shuffle, or riddling. Mentalists are also employed in corporate world to create schemes of Gambler's fallacy to trap our commitment with illusionary prospects. Train the eye and mind to look where you formerly are not looking. Understand how the mind persist in an expectation, and sometimes remains that version of illusion and continues being trap in the delusion. The magician merely helps us to deceive ourselves.Exercise: Creating The Illusion of Coincidence
Understand how "Psychic" predictions are fabricated.
Coincidences occur in everyone's life. Some are trivial, like being dealt a flush in poker, but others really grab our attention. What these events have in common is our intense desire to explain them, a belief that there is a special reason things happen the way they do. What most people do not know or do not want to believe is that coincidences, even remarkable ones, are not all that surprising. In fact most are inevitable occurrences with no special significance at all.There are many simple reasons why most people misinterpret coincidences:
. Humans have a poor innate grasp of probability.
. We believe that all effects must have deliberate causes.
. We do not understand the laws regarding truly large numbers.
. We easily succumb to selective validation -- the tendency to remember only positive correlations and forget the far more numerous misses.Our coincidence-detection abilities have been finely honed through the ages by evolution and natural selection. Being able to spot significant correlations between events would lend an important survival advantage to our ancestors which would then be selected for through the generations. We can speculate, therefore, that man is hardwired to look everywhere for patterns and connections. Modern culture, however, with its myriad connections between events and people, activates these abilities at every turn, causing us to continually suggest explanations and invoke strange forces -- such as psychic powers -- that do not exist.Probability gives one the power to more greatly appreciate the significance, or lack of significance, of many everyday events. A poor understanding of probability and statistics, common in our society, causes people to be more amazed than they should be when confronted with coincidences, hence the easy jump to a metaphysical explanation.Dramatic experiences tend to be remembered more than others. This leads to a phenomenon of subjective validation (aka selective memory). Therefore it is only natural to remember unusual experiences, even Alzheimer's victims with significantly impaired short-term memories can more easily recall recent events that were out of the ordinary. A common ploy used by psychics is to make dozens of predictions knowing that the more that are made, the better the odds that one will hit. When one comes true, the psychic counts on us to conveniently forget the 99% that were way off. This makes the correct predictions seem much more compelling than they really are. This is a conscious or deliberate form of subjective validation, or, put more simply, fraud.Jeane Dixon Effect: refers to a tendency to promote a few seemingly correct predictions while ignoring the large numbers of failed predictions (confirmation bias)Exercise: Name examples of survival bias.
There will be tendency that people will externalize errors and commit bias blind spot and cognitive dissonance. We may persist to commit the illusion of perspicacity. We have to conduct soundness check on our mental models, modes and heuristics, particularly when it may be subjected to availability heuristic bias or when the observation is non-representative or unlikely to reflect actuality in the question of representativeness heuristic. Availability heuristic bias can also be a result of primacy effect, mere exposure effect, contrast effect or recency effect, or even arrived from clustering illusion (the tendency to see patterns where actually none exist).
The observed may just be a mere resemblance of the truth, or even worse, the mind selectively creates the illusion that it hopes it to be. What is more precarious is that the mind may engage in adaptive bias to persist in the illusion. It would be prudent to form a defensive immunity to minimize self-inherent limitations in judgement and decision making. Humans are very susceptible to cognitive errors.
没有病识感: Lacking the awareness that one is ill. No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. — James Randi (August 7, 1928 — October 20, 2020)
Key(s):
1. Beware of the flaws of the mind (cognitive incorrectness):
1.1. Biases,
1.2. Bends (Distortion and Deformation),
1.3. Breaks (Missing Parts or Lacking),
1.4. Broken (Flawed, Dysfunctional, Malfunctional, Non-functional), 1.5. Blurring (Ambiguity)
1.6. Blindspots (Unknowns)
* The lack of coverage in your design and decision may experience `Black Swans` in a matter of time.2. Beware errors that can lead to fatal systemic from Subadditivity effect. The tendency to misjudge probability of the whole to be less than the probabilities of the parts, or missing the details of where the parts may go awry is the reason for fatality.
Gamifying A Design Of A Riddle Oracle
A way to shift our perspectives is to concoct ways to design something that is beyond our conception. We have to understand how some of the facet evades us, and we will be able to create ways to mine and evince them.
Hide
1. Optical flush, camouflage and/or illusion
Examples:
1.1. Clear glass ball in a container of water.
1.2. Place a code on a spinning fan so that it can only be read using a stroboscope in the dark.2. Inaccessible
Place a key or object in the bottom of a container that is too narrow for a player’s hand; require players to pour liquid into the container to raise the floating item.3. The unconventional switch, latch, catch, feature and utility or key, and even conditions
3.1. To turn on or unlock with the 'Key', connect the electricity that powers a puzzle to a stationary bicycle. Require one player to pedal continuously while another solves the puzzle. For an added challenge, if the player operating the bicycle stops pedaling, reset the puzzle.
3.2. Lights at certain frequency to show the image or words (or when masked at a distance with a mask).
3.3. Assembly of a Physical object, such as a jigsaw key
3.4. Provide a dial phone that can be used as a calculator, or vice versa.
3.5. Supply an object of a specific weight to be used as a heavy object in the room to apply weight to a platform or a switch.
3.6. Hide a magnet inside an object, such as an eraser, that can be used to lift a key out of a floor crack or operate a magnet-activated switch.
3.7. Place a key in a covered maze and require players to use a magnet to move it through the maze to an opening where it can be retrieved.
3.8. Many rooms include objects that obviously (or perhaps not so obviously) go together and require players to combine them to either create a new object or to activate a switch. e.g. Require players to insert money into a money-counting machine. run a credit card through a credit card reader, knapsack / weight of a fridge.4. Shuffled and hidden
4.1. The order a book on shelf to form a clue / cue word or arrow
4.2. The order of pages from books to form instructions
4.3. Provide a set of dots within which a shape or code can be found. Hide symbols by requiring the user to solve a maze.
4.4. "Where’s waldo" : Encode clues or messages in a map.
paintings, diagrams, photographs, posters, and other decorations on the walls (or in frames on shelves or desks)5. Team work
5.1. Hidden within a jigsaw, but requires groups to solve them at different places and find a way to communicate the order or details.
5.2. Chain or tie players to one another, restricting their movement until they find a key to release themselves.
5.3. 1 person in the dark, the other to direct him through the darkness
If facts change from time to time itself, who can really assert that their opinions may not be fallacious or incomplete, and may be subjected to paradigm shifts under new discoveries themselves? Therefore, one can only assert the truth if s/he is a staunch bigot. — 2013-01.29