My sadistic girlfriend gave to me for Christmas, The Mensa Puzzle Calendar. It has one brain teasing puzzle for every day of the year. That is three hundred and sixty five chances to feel stupid.
A recent puzzle, titled Language Barrier, asked this:
Remove one letter from each word below the rearrange the remaining letters to form the name of a language.
1. pliant
2. wheels
3. hiding
4. whereby
5. helpings
6. sideshow
The calendar is at work and sometimes I have an opportunity to work the puzzles and sometimes I just casually look at them. That day, a Friday was the latter. Continue reading “The Mind, A Terrible Thing to Waste”