Writers’ Paradise

The best way to improve your memory is to exercise your brain. Try doing a few puzzles every day-newspapers usually have a daily puzzle page, or you can buy different kinds of puzzle books, like sudoku.
Learning skills is a great way to train your brain and keep it in shape. Try mastering something new, like […]

Shuffle a deck of cards. Peek at the bottom card and remember it. Ask your friend to pick any card, memorise it, but not show you.
Cut the deck. Hold out the top half of the deck and ask your friend to put their card on top of it. Place the bottom half of th deck […]

Ask your friends to try this simple sum. Read it out just as it appears below. Don’t let your friends use a pencil and paper or a calculator-they must figure it out in their heads.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it.
Now add another 1000.
Now add 30.
Now add another 1000.
Now add 20.
Add another 1000.
Finally add 10.
What’s […]

Ask a friend to count the number of Fs in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
There are six Fs in the sentence, but most people only count three. This is because many people’s brains don’t register that the word OF contains an F.
Anyone who counts all […]