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sweet_monu
January 20th, 2004, 02:30 PM
Go through the few lines below and make a shift to the way you
think........

Here's a good test for lateral thinking

Guess the words no cheating)


1. man
------------
board














Ans. = man overboard

2. stand
------------
i











Ans. = I understand


Now something different...

3. /r/e/a/d/i/n/g/
















Ans. = reading between the lines

4. r
road
a
d










Ans. = cross road

5. cycle
cycle
cycle












Ans. = tricycle

6.
t
o
w
n











Ans. = downtown

7.
le /
/ vel
/













Ans. = split level

8 . 0
------------
M.D.
Ph.D.












Ans. = two degrees below zero

9. knee
------------
light













Ans. = neon light (knee-on-light)


10. ii ii
-----------
O O














Ans. = circles under the eyes

11. dice
dice











Ans. = paradise


12. t
o
u
c
h











Ans. = touchdown

13. ground
---------------
feet
feet
feet
feet
feet
feet












Ans. = six feet underground


14. he's / himself














Ans. = he's by himself

15. ecnalg











Ans. = backward glance

16. death / life











Ans. = life after death

17 . THINK








Ans. think big !!


And the last one is fundoo............


18 . ababaaabbbbaaaabbbbababaabbaaabbbb.......















Ans. long time ,no 'c'(see)

anilkc
January 20th, 2004, 07:01 PM
here are few more to guess:
Hint: phrase related to western holidays

1)
abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz
2)
PPPPPPP
--------
Earth
3)
Salt: "Hello!" Pepper: "How's it going?"
4)
AnoWFlaKe sNOwfLAkE snowWfLAke SNOwflaKE
5)
PEARpartridgeTREE