[For Seniors] Lateral Thinking Game! Brain Training

Hearing my mom say, “It’s so delicious my cheeks might fall off,” I misunderstood and thought they would really fall off.

The girl heard her mother say, “It’s so delicious my cheeks might fall off,” and she took it literally. The phrase “cheeks falling off” is an expression—a metaphor used to describe how delicious something is—but the girl interpreted it word for word, got scared, and burst into tears.

Because Ann is the English article “an.”

A vowel sound refers to the sounds “a, i, u, e, o.” “An” can only be attached to words that begin with a vowel sound. Since neither “Papa” nor “Mama” starts with a vowel sound, “an” absolutely could not be attached to them.

Because I started losing weight.

When we hear the word “battle,” we tend to imagine an intense war. However, in this quiz, “battle” refers to a sports match. In sports like boxing and judo, which have weight classes, athletes need to restrict their diet and cut weight before a match, so this person stopped eating for that reason.

Because that melon-pan shop was Sakura-chan’s shop.

In this problem, we consider the reason why she was happy to see the “Sold Out” sign. As it turns out, the shop Sakura-chan went to was actually her own melon bread shop. The fact that a sold-out sign was displayed means that all the melon bread sold that day had been purchased, and Sakura-chan was pleased because it showed that her shop was doing well.

Discard one piece

The answer is to throw away one apple. By discarding one, each person can get one apple equally. Normally, cutting and sharing is common, but if you can’t divide four apples evenly with a knife, the choice was made to discard one and ensure a fair distribution.

Because it was a child’s picture diary

During long vacations, you often see children putting off their homework. In this quiz, the answer is that the child slacked off on their diary and left many days unwritten, then hurriedly filled it in all at once, which led to dates and weather not matching up—even within the same neighborhood.

The elderly man had come as a volunteer to weed the hospital garden.

The elderly man didn’t visit the hospital because he felt unwell; he had come as a volunteer to do weeding in the hospital garden. He stopped by the hospital to have his temperature taken, and when the doctor asked about his condition, he replied, “I’m in perfect shape.” Since he said he was in top form, they judged he could work and gave him herbicide (a chemical) to kill the weeds.