Vehicle : Geometrical Challenge
Navigate an odd little vehicle over and around obstacles using nothing but a couple of grappling hooks and your own limitless ingenuity. Your mission: snare Object #1, then Object #2 (clearly labeled as such) without getting stuck on any pointy outcrops. If you do, use your grappling hooks and some clever jiggling to work yourself loose. This one is rather easy. Estimated time for completion: 8 minutes (just enough time for your coffee to cool to the point of drinkability).You may wish to practice on a simpler version first.
Vehicle : Mountain Aerobatics
Navigate an odd little vehicle from your starting point, over the mountain and back again, using nothing but a couple of grappling hooks and your own limitless ingenuity. Your mission: get up over the mountain, taking advantage of the various flying vehicles, down the other side and through the tunnel to return to your starting point. Try not to get hung up on the suprisingly spiky balloons or jagged aircraft protuberances. If you do, use your grappling hooks and some clever jiggling to work yourself loose. This one is moderately challenging. Estimated time for completion: 15 minutes (you may have to skip a staff meeting).You may wish to practice on a simpler version first.
Vehicle : Bugs and Arachnids
Navigate an odd little vehicle through a scary jungle labryinth of creepy crawlies, using nothing but a couple of grappling hooks and your own limitless ingenuity. Your mission: get from your starting position back to your starting position. Try not to get hung up on all the slimy and spiky tentacles! If you do, use your grappling hooks and some clever jiggling to work yourself loose. This is a challenging one, but certainly possible. Estimated time for completion: 20 minutes (you may have to skip a staff meeting).You may wish to practice on a simpler version first.
In direct conflict with the fundamental stated purpose of this site (Productivity reduction. It's right there at the top. You can check.) this memory game may cause the unfortunate side-effect of improved observation and retention abilities, which tend to increase the likelihood of productive behavior. Just be sure to save your newly acquired skills for the next job.
First, this must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30.
Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10.
What is the total?
Let's check . . .
Read the sentence below:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Now count the F's in that sentence. Count them only once.
Let''s see how you did . .
Navigate your quirky little vehicle through the jagged, oddly bestrewn wastes of something vaguely spacelike, using ingenuity and grappling hooks. Try to get from Point A to Point B (hint: we're not telling you where to find Point B). We're on the honor system here, but if you can do it in less than 10 minutes you deserve to clap yourself briskly on the shoulder and enjoy a snifter of whatever you generally reward yourself with. (Note: this may take a minute or two to load).
Try other locations for Vehicle here in the Brain Twisters section.
Navigate an odd little vehicle through a floating hodgepodge of office equipment, using nothing but a couple of grappling hooks and your own limitless ingenuity. Take a dip in the water cooler, and try flushing youself down the toilet!
You may wish to practice on a simpler version first.
In this odd little game, or toy, or puzzle, or what you will, you find yourself in charge of steering an odd little two-wheeled vehicle through a vertical landscape beset with challenges. You will use your ingenuity and a couple of grappling hooks to navigate the terrain. A bit befuddling at first, if you give it time you will find it remarkably interesting.
Imagine slumping in your wee cubicle, half-aware of the nervous bling-bling of telephones and the whirr-keblunk of copy machines, the syncopated drumbeat of frenzied footsteps as hypertensive colleagues ricochet like pinballs from room to room on vitally trivial missions of incompetence. Slowly the sound and fury fade first to innocuous white noise, then virtual silence, as you are transfixed by the all-important task of restoring order to the chaos of a scrambled Rubik's cube. At last you succeed, clap yourself briskly on the shoulder, then impetuously tap the s key of your keyboard to relaunch the timeless waltz of wit.
