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Every question on this test has some hidden message or trick you
have to find before you can solve it. Can you find the easy
questions hidden inside the posers?
Let's jump right in and get started with an example.
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What is the best word to continue this sequence:
transcend, boomeranged, playfellow, engorgement, absolute?
pointblank
purposeless
monochrome
generally
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Does that make any sense? Do you have to be an English professor
to even begin to think about that one? Nope. Not at all. If you're
fairly normal, your mind may have wandered a bit as you were reading
boomeranged and playfellow and you may have noticed they had
the letters for orange and yellow contained inside them
in the proper order. Now that's pretty weird isn't it? Go have another look.
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Here's the question again, rewritten just a
tiny bit so some specific letters stand out:
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What is the best word to continue this sequence:
transcend, boomeranged, playfellow, engorgement, absolute?
1) pointblank
2) purposeless
3) monochrome
4) generally
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Pretty easy once you see it, isn't it? Not only that, but the
wrong answers followed the same rules just to help confirm that you
really found the trick!
Here's another:
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I do not know silly things, perhaps having heard them not so.
a) Some deal with that, much more than they know
b) Get not one, and not two, but win all ten!
c) Why did their chicken cross the river? Who knows?
d) Feeling rather needy just now? No, I do get some
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That one doesn't seem to ask a question, so you have to figure
out what the question is. In cases like this the "question" may
contain another question inside of it, or it might represent
some pattern or trick that you have to see. The correct answer
will have the same pattern or trick as the "question." Did you
notice that the first answer is made up of only four letter words,
and the second answer has only three letter words?
So if you still haven't figured it out, here's what it looks
like if all the words are changed to the number of letters they contain:
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2
a) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
b) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
c) 3 3 5 7 5 3 5 3 5
d) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4
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The answer 'd' is most like the "question" because the
number of letters in each word changes by exactly one from one word
to the next. Choosing 'd' shows that you've seen the pattern.
For all the questions on this test, once you see the correct answer,
there should be no doubt in your mind that it's correct. If you're not sure,
then you probably
haven't found the real trick yet. Sometimes even the wrong
answers will scream "wrong" at you or give you hints about
how the real question is hidden.
Wrong answers score random negative points, no answers score zero points,
and correct answers score one point. So if you go through the whole
test just picking answers at random, chances are you'll end up with a
negative score!
Take your time, persistence pays off. Take a few days, or a week or as long
as you want. Be skeptical of everything; do your best to think outside the box.
Google isn't going to be able to help you very much with this test.
Relax and look for very simple things. If any seem too complicated, try
another, and come back later. The more you get, the easier the rest will seem.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ---Franz Kafka
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