[Genius if you can solve it?] Insight and intuition: a challenging IQ quiz

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Rokuyō, which often appears on calendars. It listed the first characters of the six Rokuyō: Senshō, Tomobiki, Senbu, Butsumetsu, Taian, and Shakkō. The correct answer is the “大” (Dai) from Taian.

50%

If you draw a diagonal slash through the zeros in the ones and tens places of “5000,” it becomes “50%.” It’s an answer you’re unlikely to reach if you approach “5000” as a figure or try to express it as a mathematical formula.

God

In the English vocabulary exercise, pairs are chosen so that reversing the spelling still forms a valid word, like “evil = live” for ‘悪＝ライブ’ and “top = pot” for ‘上＝ポット’. Therefore, “dog” becomes “god,” that is, God.

pu

A small “tsu” (っ) goes in all the circles. Trick, Morocco, burikko—so the answer is “pu,” drop. Once you understand the rule it’s clear, but when it’s written in hiragana it can be misleading and make you overthink it, right?

dragon

Many people may have tried adding a vertical or horizontal line or a dot, thinking it meant “add one stroke.” But in reality, it was a single stroke like a reversed hiragana ‘shi.’ It required the creativity to consider that curves were also an option.

5

G, C, and P each stand for rock, scissors, and paper, respectively. Accordingly, the number of fingers shown in each shape corresponds to the numbers. It’s a simple quiz that tests your intuition.

469

The other numbers add up to 13 when you sum their digits, but 469 adds up to 19. Finding the common feature is one of the tricks to solving lateral-thinking quizzes.