Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Problem Solving Toolkit

I'm taking this problem solving toolkit class at work. It's a two day course. Initially I took it because one, I need to take some classes for my IDP (Individual Development Plan), and well, I really don't mind getting away from the office once in a while, and I'm sure the vast majority of you well know why. Anyway, so far we've played a few mini-games that I thought were really neat. I'm a fan of thinking games, so I thought I'd post them here:

Draw a circle. Now draw 3 lines to make the circle into at least 8 parts.

From the roman numeral number 9 below, draw one single line to make it a 6:
IX

Take 10 small pieces of something (for instance, we got M&Ms). Make 5 lines of 4 items each.

Lastly, a group brainstorming exercise. Think of all the different ways one can use a paperclip. I got pretty creative there.. my team won :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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00100000011101000110111100100000011100110110010101100101001000000110100101100110
00100000011101000110100001100101011100100110010100100111011100110010000001100001
00100000011011100110010101110111001000000111000001101111011100110111010000100000
0111010001101111011001000110000101111001 Should be easy for you ;-)

Alan said...

I can't wait to see ... the answer.

I can only get 7 divisions inside the circle, does the outside count as 8? The IX to 6 is easy, though you won't like my answer. And I was able to get 7 lines out of 10 items.