Anybody Can Solve Easy Riddles - It's The Real Brain Teasers That Drive You Crazy

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jason_Bacot]Jason Bacot
If you have a little free time, and want to use it to challenge yourself in order to keep your brain sharp, you might want to think about trying to solve riddles. If you do decide to accept the offer, then it would be best to start by trying to come up with the answers for easy riddles first. Then after you get the hang of it, move on to the real tough ones, which are called brain teasers.
When you initially start trying to come up with a few riddle answers, you are going to quickly discover it is much more difficult than you could have ever possibly imagined. The experts that specialize in this highly engaging activity, have spent many years honing and perfecting their craft, which is precisely why they are so good at it.
What the specialist have done, is refine a technique that provides them the ability to methodically and systematically break down a riddle to its most rudimentary level. Once this is accomplished, they then go and put it all back together again, in an attempt to help them come up with the correct answer.
If the above sounds like it is just a little bit too complicated, it is really not, you will just have to follow some of the steps mentioned below. First, you will need to teach yourself how to read riddles correctly. If you can never learn how to properly read riddles, there is no chance of you ever being able to consistently figure out the answers to them.
When you read a riddle, you have to slow down considerably, and fully concentrate on each and every word in the sentence. Next, you need to realize that almost every word used in a riddle, could have been replaced with another word, but wasn't. The second step is to come up with your own replacement words, and ask yourself why the writer used the word they chose, instead of another word. Once you are able to come up with the answer to that question quickly and efficiently, you will be truly close to becoming a great riddle solver.
After you are doing pretty well getting the answers to the easy ones, it will be time to up your game, and start working on the hard riddles. When you do this however, you will quickly come to realize that you are not quite as good at this as you thought you were. Of course, they will be much more challenging, and force you to think quite a bit deeper about the writer's intention than anything else you have considered in your entire life.
The only thing almost as hard as the brain teasers, are called tricky riddles. They are very difficult, and it will more than likely take you some time until you to fully understand how to solve them quickly. So, remember to start with easy riddles first, then gradually begin to work your way up the ladder, until you get to the top of it.
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