Brainteasing
I once got tripped up by a particularly diabolical "you'll feel stupid if you don't figure it out"-type brainteaser once. My dad showed it to me in a magazine. There was this Venn diagram, two overlapping circles, containing three sets of numbers, something like this:
You had to figure out the property shared by the numbers in each circle (the numbers inside the overlap, of course, had both properties).
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____ ___ / \ / \ / 6 /\ 156 \ / 4884 / \ 713 \ | 1771 | 535 | 278 | | 29592 | 707 | 350 | | 33 | 474 | 904 | | 98089 | 212 | 127 | \ 64046 \ / 209 / \ 7227 \/ 384 / \____/ \___/
You had to figure out the property shared by the numbers in each circle (the numbers inside the overlap, of course, had both properties).
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