7 Puzzles And Paradoxes To Twist Your Brain

Reckon you're pretty smart? Well there's no better way to put your powers of deduction and reasoning to the test, than a good, old fashioned brain teaser.

There are lots of different flavours of puzzle and paradox, each designed to challenge a different part of your critical thinking abilities. Some of them are purely abstract, testing your ability to think your way out of the dark. Others have their roots in reality, and are actually baffling contradictions that have cropped up in science experiments, proving that, just when we think that we're getting to grips with the universe, it'll throw us a curve ball, just to keep things interesting.

As simple as many of these riddles and paradoxes seem on the surface, many of them actually remain unresolved to this day. Whilst this is pretty frustrating, it's a good way to stir up some healthy debate in the pub that may or may not result in the breakdown of a number of friendships.

On the plus side, some of them do have a resolution so you can use them in the future to baffle your friends, confound your enemies and impress pretty girls with your immense brainpower (that's what it's all about, after all).