It's important to keep your mind active throughout the day – and one way to achieve this is by challenging yourself to a .
To test your brain power, Wizeprep has taken to to share a puzzle which could tell you whether you have a high IQ.
Participants are tasked with putting the numbers one to nine between the nine circles provided around a triangle, making sure each side adds up to 17. The video says: "If you can solve this brainteaser, you are a math wizard. The rules are simple, place the numbers one to nine in the circles below so that every side adds up to 17. Every number must be used – so no repeating numbers."
Do you want to give it a go? Take a second to try to figure out the answer before the solution is revealed below. According to , "lateral thinking is a form of problem-solving that utilizes a more creative, less direct approach to the problem". A statement reads: "The brain is neuroplastic, meaning it has the ability to shift and change over time.
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"Many people believe our brains age as we do, growing less powerful, less capable, and less competent over time. What most don’t realise, however, is that you have the ability to manipulate your brain the way a sculptor moulds clay.
"The brain is susceptible to all we expose it to—people, music, work—even the physical environments we traverse on a day-to-day basis. Everything we partake in has the potential to ."
Time is up! Revealing the correct answer, one user commented: "Right side top down 1, 9, 5, 2 = 17 Left side top down 1, 6, 7, 3 = 17 Bottom left to right 3, 4, 8, 2 = 17." Another user said: "Took me five minutes. I feel nice."
A third user added: "To solve it, the key is that 1 to 9 sum 45 and 3x17 is 51, so numbers in the corners must sum 6= 1+2+3. Finding the rest is straightforward..." One more user said: "This was great. Thank you!! I got it within three minutes." A final user said: "Clue: 1 to 9 sum to 45. the three sets of 4 numbers add to 51 (3*17) therefore numbers totalling 6 are counted twice. those go in corners."
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